Today’s passage is going to make you feel uncomfortable. I’m not gonna lie. I had some trouble getting my head around the fact that Peter wasn’t preaching civil disobedience and told slaves to be obedient to their masters.
Read MoreThe name Peter, as many of us know, comes from the Greek word “petros,” meaning “rock.” I used to joke that the name had a double meaning, referring to Peter being the foundation of the Church and referring to Peter’s rock-thick head.
Read MoreMy absolute favorite fairy tale is and always will be Beauty and the Beast. The Disney version that came out in 1991 is still my favorite Disney movie. I love that the Beast had to win Belle’s love by saving her life and being her friend. Eventually, he loved her enough to let her go. It wasn’t until Belle came back and told him how she loved him that the Beast turned into a prince.
Read MoreIt doesn’t sound like a whole lot of fun. We’re all grown ups here, and yet he asks us to act like obedient children. However, he gives us a reason as to why we need to be living holy lives.We don’t discipline ourselves just because a government or some other kind of authority figure says so. We don’t do it for any sense of personal gain. We don’t even do it just because it makes us feel good. We do it for the greater glory of God. We do it because we are saved by Christ.
Read MoreThe word “inheritance” means that you get something that belongs to an older generation, usually at the death of a family member. My mother, for example, inherited some property after my grandfather passed away. The inheritance that Peter describes in today’s passage, however, is a little bit different.
Read MoreMany people have this misconception that having a life in faith is easy, borderline childish, naive, and stupid. In reality, life as a Christian is a constant challenge. For one thing, God constantly pushes us outside of our comfort zones and asks us change
Read MoreJust as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother’s womb,So you do not know the work of God, who is working in everything. Ecclesiastes 11:5
Read MoreDead flies corrupt and spoil the perfumer’s oil; more weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly! Ecclesiastes 10:1
Read MoreEnjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life, for the toil of your labors under the sun.
Read MoreBecause the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil. Ecclesiastes 8:11
Read MoreIt is too easy to live in waiting for the next best thing. Whether it be marriage, children, or missions, our flesh has an uncanny way of keeping our eyes off the present.
Read MoreIf a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say,
“Better the miscarriage than he, for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.Ecclesiastes 6:3-4
Read MoreThe Lord delights in our humility 1 Peter 3:3-4
Read MoreI have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.
Read MoreThere is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—
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