1 Peter 2:6-8

“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.” Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,” and “A stone of […]

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 Note Peter’s architectural instructions;1 Peter 2:4-8

Coming to Him as a living  stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore it is also contained in […]

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Today Peter’s words are refreshing to say the least.

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.

What struck me here was that the malice, deceit, hypocrisy, […]

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   There won’t be an online audio sermon this week, sorry, there was a malfunction in the recording.  Yet, we are continuing with our daily study of 1 Peter.  Today we have 1 Peter 1:22-25

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one […]

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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; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious […]

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Here are Peter’s words concerning obedience;
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; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who […]

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 Notice the eternal scope of these verses in 1 Peter 1: 10-12

Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of […]

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Here are the verses we’ll be looking at today, 1 Peter 1:6-9

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found […]

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I thought that from here on out I would make the Scripture meditations on this site a bit more systematic. So, I will be looking at Peter’s letters here over the next few weeks. We’ll begin with first Peter, and I have to say that I was blessed by Peter’s presentation of the […]

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Tonight at our Wednesday evening study we will be looking at Mark 2:23-28.

And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not […]

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