Category Archives: 1 Peter

Doing what is right is sometimes the greatest challenge one can face, especially when that challenge is presented in the context of a hierarchy. When one is in charge, it is sometimes difficult not to take advantage of being in charge, and when one is subordinate, sometimes it is difficult not to rebel. This is true in our churches just as much as anywhere in life. We often struggle with the notion of someone being in charge, or struggle with being in charge ourselves. Yet, God established that there are those who are in charge within His Church and those that are to follow. Continue reading →

The end of all things is near. Almost 2000 years after that statement was written, it is easy to wonder if that end is any closer now than it was then. Certainly, we have time in our current era if Jesus has not returned yet. Continue reading →

Being Christians makes us different. It means that we do not act like everyone else. We believe different. We think different. We act different. Yet, this difference is not because we believe such actions will save us, rather we do these things because we are aware of a better way, revealed to us by faith. What good, then, are these actions? If we are saved by Grace through faith, and our actions do not matter, then what do these actions accomplish for us? Continue reading →

Submission is an inflammatory word in our modern times. In the modern mind, submission is seen as being weak and subservient. In a culture so worried about independence, privacy, and image, submission is an anathema. Yet, here is this difficult teaching. Peter and Paul both write that wives are to submit to their husbands, but we rebel against this notion, wanting to believe that this is a teaching of some foreign time and place that does not apply to us today. Continue reading →

The place we are most likely to be a an example of our faith is in our work because we spend more time at work than any other single place. As a result, people are more likely to come in contact with the testimony of our lives at work than anywhere else. Continue reading →