“Whoever would elevate themselves will be brought low, and whoever would lower themselves will be lifted up.” --Jesus
1 Peter 5: Presbyter and Episcopate
The sense of hierarchical governance and rule are completely wrong in the church setting.
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1 Peter 4: Manifold Grace of God
There are three basic things Peter emphasized in this passage for you and I to do as we interact with each other: pray, love fervently, and make our hospitality cheerful. And there is one thing God calls you and me to stop doing: living in the identity we used to have before we came to Christ.
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1 Peter 4: Have Done With Carousing
God asks no more of believers than was asked of God’s own Son, and our suffering also has purpose, glory, and blessing in it.
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1 Peter 3: Baptism of the Flood
As a life-long waterman, Peter may have preached often using the metaphors of Noah's ark and the Flood as symbolic for salvation through Jesus.
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1 Peter 3: Spirits in Prison
Peter drew from imagery that could portray the kind of fearless faith, godly character, and much-maligned yet God-affirmed lifestyle that he was seeking to encourage. Noah and his family of eight were a tiny remnant of faithful people in a very hostile world.
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1 Peter 3: Do Not Fear?
The ink in Peter's quill was metaphorically drawn from his own suffering and sacrifice. He wrote about fear and courage because he was face-to-face with it.
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1 Peter 3: Repay Evil With Good
We may not be able to stop evil, harm, and pain from entering our lives. Corruption and death are still realities. But we can choose to respond in the Spirit of Christ, a supernatural response that is first the result of God’s divine work of transformation within, and is also our willingness to allow that divine work to replace the way we used to be.
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1 Peter 3: The Example of Sarah
I have learned much about the importance of good translation. IN today's text, the meaning of words makes all the difference in understanding the passage.
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1 Peter 3: Living the Word
Peter's instructions to Christians husbands and wives married to those who do not share their faith is a continuation of his them of living honorably.
