Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

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.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

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.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

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.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 2: A Chosen People

You and I, by virtue of our new birth, our birth from above, have become citizens of the kingdom of light.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 2: Peter the Rock

Believers are to see themselves as ones hewn from God, as living rock with a special unity, built upon the Cornerstone of Christ, and as a priesthood whose purpose was to serve and glorify God, remembering his own vivid experience of being named a rock of faith by Jesus.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 2: Living Stone

It is apt, in light of Matthew 16:13-19, that Peter would use the metaphor of living stones fitted to Christ the cornerstone and capstone.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 1: Spiritual DNA

Our spiritual DNA is now from above, and as we live in faith, by faith in Jesus, we experience Jesus’ faithfulness in us and to us; we grow and mature into our new being, a being of love.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 1: Prophetic Mystery

Worship and praise are the natural overflow of God’s perspective, for you and I can experience joyful confidence and triumphant thanksgiving in the movement and purposes of God.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter: Elected in Love

If you are feeling a heavy load, or weathering a tempest, then you will be able to resonate with something of what the first century church was enduring.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Gospel of John

Gospel of John: Graze My Lambs

In the last fifty or so years great piles of ancient papyri and inscriptions have been unearthed, and the weight of the evidence support agapeo and phileo having the same power to them