10So, dear brothers and sisters,*1:10Greekbrothers.work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. 11Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. ...
Greetings from Peter - This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to you who share the same precious faith we
Promises to Peter When he first saw Simon, “Jesus looked at him, and said, ‘So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas (which means Peter)’” (John 1:42). The word Cephas is merely the transliteration of the Aramaic Kepha into Greek. Later, after Peter and th...
upon. The usual form of baptism is into the name of the Father, etc. - εἰς eis. Here it does not mean to be baptized by the authority of Jesus Christ, but it means to be baptized for him and his service; to be consecrated in this way, and by this public profession,...
of Jesus Christ. Thiel was raised as an Evangelical and inherited the Christianity of his parents. But his beliefs are “somewhat heterodox.” In a profile in theNew Yorker, Thiel said: “I believe Christianity to be true. I don’t feel a compelling need to convince other people of that...
Greeting the Faithful - Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the
In a world where honor and shame were significant cultural values, responding to an insult with another insult was a common way to defend one's honor. However, Peter instructs believers to refrain from this natural human reaction. This aligns with Jesus' teaching to turn the other cheek (...
Jesus would be wrongfully crucified, having never sinned (Lk 2:35). But in dying on the cross and in rising again, Jesus would defeat sin and death, paying its penalty and then gifting us his righteousness so that he might create a people for himself. To quote the priest Zechariah who ...
And so this morning, the words of Jesus rang in my head: “For as you judge, so will you be judged.” I had to consider whether and how I was judging my daughter, and I had to consider whether I would want to be judged in the same way. ...
he was telling them what would happen to him in Jerusalem. He said that he would be put to death. Peter didn’t like to hear this, so he took Jesus aside, and rebuked him by saying, “Never Lord! Don’t say such things. This shall never happen to you.” How did Jesus respond?