Marcos Schultz

“Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.” 1 Peter 2:11 There are three absolute truths […]

If we are a chosen people, we are also chosen proclaimers: “But you are a chosen race,  a royal priesthood,  a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that

“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.”         1 Peter 1:22

“…He who has called you is holy.” Yes, I have read in both Isaiah and Revelation that God is triple holy. Holy. holy, holy is the Lord. Peter continues on

Confession: I used to like smoking grass. But I didn’t know that I was like grass. A short-lived greenery, only to fade away into a Christless eternity. But then something

Our friend Pete seems healthily hung up on this thing called grace.  In the opening 13 verses of his first letter, we come across it three times. Yep, I can

Sin. We think of the loud thunderous glaring gongs of sin – “big things” like sex, drugs, abuse, perversion, murder. But Peter… He starts off chapter two with five subtly

I am going to grab my King Jimmy (a.k.a. Kings James Version) for verse 14, he shoots really straight. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts

I wonder if Peter was having flashbacks to a conversation he overheard between Jesus and Thomas. It was a conversation about seeing and believing vs believing and seeing.It was when

Faith gets tested, goes through trials, and the trials feel grievous. But when, at the end of that testing, faith shows to be genuine, it results in praise and glory

“Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience…” Hebrews 10:22   I

Some things come with lifetime guarantees. I have to admit, I like those. But better yet, is God’s guarantee which Paul, in Romans 4.16, writing about the promise of eternal life, tells