Posts with the category “first-peter”
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Winning Without Words: The Quiet Power of a Godly Wife
January 9th, 2025
In 1 Peter 3, we see God’s guidance for how this relationship works. Someone once described marriage as being like a dance. In a dance, there is a leader and a follower. The leader guides and sets the... Read More
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Living Out God's Design in Today's Culture
January 2nd, 2025
Christians today are living in a culture that is moving in a completely different direction than the one God calls us to. The culture says to go one way, but we, as God’s people, live under the lordsh... Read More
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What Would Jesus Do?
December 16th, 2024
1 Peter 2:21–25 (NKJV) 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 22 “Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in H... Read More
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Tracing Jesus' Example
December 9th, 2024
1 Peter 2:21-25 immediately follows what Peter has already been writing about. He’s discussing how to respond when facing a government opposed to Christian convictions, as long as it does not require ... Read More
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Our Winsome Witness at Work
November 4th, 2024
For contextual background, read the previous blogpost: “Does the Bible Endorse Slavery?” 1 Peter 2:18–20 (NKJV) 18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentl... Read More
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Does the Bible Endorse Slavery? (a longer post)
October 28th, 2024
1 Peter 2:18–20 (NKJV)18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God o... Read More
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Getting God's Attention
October 9th, 2024
Just the word “submission” likely makes some of you reading this bristle. “I don’t want to hear about that,” may be a thought that is running through your mind. Don’t resist or reject what the Bible c... Read More
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God's Structures of Authority
October 2nd, 2024
God has established structures of authority in all areas of life. Government is one of His established structures. 1 Peter 2:13–14 says, “Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the... Read More
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Submission Paves the Way to Victory
September 25th, 2024
1 Peter 2:13a (NKJV) - Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake…The middle letter of sin is “I”, and our own rebellion and stubbornness is the problem keeping us from ... Read More
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Following the Leader
September 18th, 2024
1 Peter 2:13a (NKJV) - Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake…There was a Christian businessman in North Carolina who told me something I will never forget. He was i... Read More
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3 Keys to Experience Victory Over Temptation
September 11th, 2024
1 Peter 2:11 continues with the command to “…abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.” The word “war”, in the Greek language, implies an ongoing engagement, not a single battle. The fles... Read More
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Does Your Walk Match Your Talk?
September 4th, 2024
1 Peter 2:11–12 (NKJV) 11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they sp... Read More
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Your Witness Before Others
August 28th, 2024
1 Peter 2:11 says, “Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.” “Sojourners” and “pilgrims” enforces the idea that Christians are to be diffe... Read More
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Who God Says You Are
August 21st, 2024
In God’s church, one’s ministry is discovered through one’s identity. 1 Peter 2:9 explains that identity in four ways: “a chosen generation,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” and “His own specia... Read More
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Finding Your Place in God's Church
August 14th, 2024
Perhaps you do not feel as though you are significant. However, God has a special place for you in His church. Martin Luther once said, “God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, ... Read More
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Built Together By Jesus
August 7th, 2024
1 Peter 2:4–5 says, “Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to... Read More
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Say Yes to Jesus
July 31st, 2024
Jesus, as this cornerstone, was rejected by men. After saying Jesus is a chief cornerstone, Peter says in 1 Peter 2:6-8, “Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedien... Read More
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Jesus Christ, Our Cornerstone
July 24th, 2024
In 1501, world-renowned artist Michelangelo was going back from Rome to his home of Florence for three different reasons. First, he was a little homesick. Second, his family needed him. In the third p... Read More
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Taste and See That the Lord is Good
July 17th, 2024
1 Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV) - "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed ... Read More
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Only God's Word Can Satisfy
July 10th, 2024
1 Peter 2:1-3 (NKJV) - "Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed ... Read More
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You Are What You Eat
July 2nd, 2024
You are what you eat. I was reading this comic book, and it had a little squirrel lying on a psychiatrist's couch and he was just trying to talk to the psychiatrist, and he said, "When I realized that... Read More
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Nothing But the Blood of Jesus
June 25th, 2024
We sing about the blood of Jesus because that is how we are made acceptable to a holy God. We who place our trust in what Jesus did on the cross are not punished for our sin. God no longer sees our si... Read More
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Having a Healthy Fear of God
June 19th, 2024
1 Peter 1:17 says, “And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear.” This third antidote t... Read More
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We Are Accountable to God
June 12th, 2024
1 Peter 1:17 reads, “And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work…” Peter tells his readers that God is not only their heavenly Father. He is also an impar... Read More
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I Carry His Name
June 5th, 2024
Did you ever waste time or money when you were younger? I can remember wasting so much time, especially when school was out for the summer. I can remember asking my dad or mom for money to spend on so... Read More
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A Family Resemblance
May 29th, 2024
1 Peter 1:14–16 – “14as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; 15but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16because it i... Read More
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Right Living Begins with Right Thinking
May 21st, 2024
1 Peter 1:13–16 (NKJV) – “13Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14as obedient ch... Read More
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Edelweiss - Faithful to My Homeland
May 15th, 2024
Edelweiss – Faithful to My Homeland "The Sound of Music" is a classic movie, set in Austria, based on a true story about a family of singers, the Von Trapps, and their escape from Nazi occupation duri... Read More
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Trials are Temporary, Salvation is Eternal
May 7th, 2024
1 Peter 1:9-12 reads, “10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit... Read More
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You've Got a Reservation
March 27th, 2024
I appreciate restaurants that give you the option of making reservations. It keeps you from waiting for a long time to be seated. I've been to a couple of concerts and a couple of ball games where I h... Read More
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The Reason for My Hope
March 21st, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner, Joseph Hallinan, wrote an article on hope, in which he shared research done in the 1950s by Kurt Richter, professor at Johns Hopkins University. He wrote:In the 1950s, he conduc... Read More
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Hope for Tomorrow Brings Strength for Today
March 20th, 2024
Jay Wallace Hamilton once said, “When there’s no hope for the future, there’s no power in the present.” When we don't have something that we're longing for, or looking forward to, or seeing something ... Read More
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Where Do We Belong?
March 5th, 2024
I remember when Lydia and I were planning on getting married, and friends and family members were going to throw a bridal shower for Lydia. I had not gone to any bridal showers that I was aware of, an... Read More
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Pursued by His Love
February 29th, 2024
I like what Charles Spurgeon once said, "When we get to heaven, over the gates it will say ‘whosoever will may come,' and upon entering, we will see inscribed on the backside, 'elect before the founda... Read More
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Standing Strong in the Hour of Persecution
February 18th, 2024
Some believers in our world certainly still face grave consequences for being Christians in a hostile country, but America continues to have religious liberty. However, persecution still exists. A bel... Read More