Stumble Never Again

Stumble Never AgainTherefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble 2 Peter 1:10It’s a PromiseThis is huge! We have a covenant with Jesus Christ that declares if we do these ‘things’ we will not stumble. (I do not know about [...]

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So You Have an Identity Crisis

So You Have an Identity CrisisSimon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ… 2 Peter 1:1aA Name Shift Most Christians you talk with love Peter. We like him because he is relatable–he stumbles so many times in his walk with Jesus, but in the end he always learns his lesson. Peter was also a [...]

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You Are a Failure

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed… 1 Peter 5:1Peter’s Exhortation First Peter was written only months before horrific persecution of the church was to occur, for on July [...]

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Choosing the Right Tree

Choosing the Right TreeFor Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God…There is also an antitype which now saves us–baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who [...]

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Catalytic Consciences

…Always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 1 Peter 3:15-16Conscience Decisions Without a doubt, experience [...]

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MEN!

Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. 1 Peter 3:7Knowledge A husband must understand his wife in the same manner Christ understands His bride. We have for an [...]

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Six Words Women Hate to Hear (Maybe)

Wives, likewise be submissive to you own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe you chaste conduct accompanied by fear. Do not let your adornment be merely outward–arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel–rather [...]

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Stoned Again

Stoned AgainYou also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5 We Are the Church I love this passage of scripture. In my mind I tend to knit it together with 1 Corinthians 12:27 which declares, [...]

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Christ Concealed, Christ Revealed

He opened the rock, and water gushed out; It ran in the dry places like a river… Psalm 105:41Desert PassagesLet’s face it, some portions of the Bible are dry and seemingly, most of those barren places generally appear in the Old Testament—particularly in those endless genealogies. What is God trying to say? Do these passages [...]

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The Persecuted Church –Feverent Prayer Needed

  The following message came from the division of YWAM (Youth With A Mission) located in India and I pass it on to you.  Please pray for this situation and others we know (and do not know) about. Christians are dying…We need to pray. We have never seen anything like this. We knew that Orissa [...]

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