May 2023

READ: Eph. 2:17-22 Coming to Him as to a living stone … you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood … – 1 Pet. 2:4,5 The image shifts to the functioning of a building. However, it is still about living in communion with Christ, which is necessary for a

READ: Eph. 4:17-25 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. – 1 Pet. 2:1-3 Those who are born again have come to know Christ

May 9, 2023 – THE LIVING WORD  READ: 1 Pet. 1:20-25 … love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever. – 1 Pet.1:22-23. Peter shows us by whom and how faith is worked and what

READ: 1 Cor. 6:15-20 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things … but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. – 1 Pet. 1:18-19 The apostle Peter points out that in our entire life we should always keep something in mind: that we are redeemed

READ: Eph. 5:1-21 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear. – 1 Pet. 1:17 It is a great privilege to call upon God as our Father in heaven  But God does place demands on that

READ: Thess. 4:1-8 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but … holy in all your conduct … . – 1 Pet. 1:14-16 For Peter, believers are children of obedience. They distinguish themselves from the children of disobedience, who are the people who do not love and follow

READ: Titus 2:11-15 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. – 1 Pet. 1:13 In our text, Peter compares the Christian life to a journey. On our way to the end

READING: 2 Cor. 4:13:18 Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice … receiving the end of your faith -the salvation of your souls. – 1 Pet. 1: 8,9 Peter writes here that living faith is remarkable. It is from God, through God, and for God (Romans 11:36). Living faith is given

READ: JAMES 1:2-12 … that the genuineness of your faith, …, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. – 1 Pet. 1:6-7 Believing in the Lord Jesus Christ on earth brings not only peace, joy, and happiness, but also difficulties, sorrows, and struggles. There is every reason to

READING: Col. 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father … who … has begotten us again to a living hope … to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, … . – 1 Pet. 1:3-5). Peter begins his letter after his greeting to the readers with praising God. How does  beginning