Marcos Schultz

In my never-so-humble opinion, we are ever-so-ready to draw lines in the sand between us, and those who do not follow Jesus. Us and them. The good guys (obviously you… Continue Reading Us & Them

“Live as people who are free… but living as servants of God.” 1 Peter 2.16a and 16.c I am free. Trusting in Jesus Christ gives me freedom from sin. I… Continue Reading The Paradox of the Gospel

Last week, after 55 years of Bible reading, I came across this verse “for the first time.” David writes so poetically in what is subtitled as a “Shiggaion of David, which… Continue Reading The Pregnant Man

“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… Continue Reading Traveling Man

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… Continue Reading Chosen Proclaimers

“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… Continue Reading I Want to Love Like That

“…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… Continue Reading Holy Holy Holy

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… Continue Reading Like Grass

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… Continue Reading Grace – teleiõs

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… Continue Reading Subtly Slimy

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… Continue Reading Molded by God

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… Continue Reading Walking by Faith