Paul is en-route to Jerusalem and decides to bypass Ephesus so as not to be delayed. But he knows he will never visit them again, so calls for the elders to meet him out of town for a final
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Believers having compassion for one another and loving each other as brothers is central to a successful Christian life. Peter puts suffering as a Christian in ...
Having a made a general statement to submit to all authority, Peter cites two specific examples and deals with servants submitting to masters and wives submitti ...
Peter reminds us that we are "sojourners and pilgrims". We do not belong in the world; our citizenship is elsewhere. As a consequence, we are to submit to all ...
Those reborn become spiritual babes, needing spiritual milk, until we grow and mature. We become living stones built into a spiritual house whose corner stone i ...
Peter re-emphasises the transient nature of our earthly existence, and calls upon believers to be eternity-minded. Being bought by the precious blood of the lam ...
The text is rich with doctrinal concepts which would have been revolutionary to the 1st century Jew, like the fact that believers are not created beings, but ar ...
This study introduces the first epistle of Peter. In contrast to Paul, whose conversion took place after Jesus' resurrection and ascension, Peter had been one o ...
Paul is en-route to Jerusalem and decides to bypass Ephesus so as not to be delayed. But he knows he will never visit them again, so calls for the elders to mee ...
Paul continues his third missionary journey into Greece and travels back through Macedonia. During one of his all-nighters, a young man falls out of a third flo ...
The pushback against Paul's ministry in this passage came from a silversmith called Demetrius. He organised a riot in the theatre in order to disrupt Paul's wor ...
Handkerchiefs from Paul caused healing and deliverance from evil spirits. This immediately resulted in copy-cat exorcists and healers trying to cast out demons ...