What’s the most precious thing you possess? What is the most valuable thing you own? Of course the word precious carries two meanings. Some…
Category: 1 Peter
The last eight verses of Peter’s first letter contain a warning, an encouragement and a promise. The whole letter was written to encourage Christians…
I have talked before about the popular but totally false gospel of health, wealth and prosperity. The mistaken and wrong idea that God will…
There are at least three wonderful verses in our Bible reading today which are well worth learning off by heart. I will save the…
Do churches in the 21st century really need ministers any more? You may have read about a recent Church of England report called Myriad…
The apostle Peter wrote his first letter to encourage Christians who were experiencing fierce persecution from the Roman empire. Peter points to Jesus the…
The First Letter of Peter unwraps for us how the Early Church explained the mystery of God’s plan of salvation. The heart of the…
This morning’s reading is the end of a long passage which begins in chapter 2. 1 Peter 2 11 Dear friends, I urge you,…
The apostle Peter is writing to Christians who are living as exiles and strangers in the world and who are suffering persecution for the…
What is the church? The church is not the bricks and mortar building. I’m not thinking either about the human organisation we call the…
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—5 you also, like living stones,…
15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: ‘Be holy,…
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect. I am happy to believe that the author of this letter was indeed the apostle…