Ready to Answer: Giving the Reason for Our Hope
When we are asked what we believe and why, Scripture calls us to answer with both clarity and gentleness.
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When we are asked what we believe and why, Scripture calls us to answer with both clarity and gentleness.
When someone asks you why you believe, Scripture tells you not only what to say but how to say it.
When someone asks why you believe, Peter tells us how to answer — and the manner matters as much as the words.
As the school year opens, 1 Peter 5 offers families a way to handle anxiety together rather than each alone.
Peter tells elders and young people alike to put on the same garment, and he had seen it worn once.
The most quoted comfort in 1 Peter is a single clause with a reason attached.
A careful walk through the paragraph where Peter turns from Christ's suffering to the shape of a Christian's remaining time.
Peter's instruction about hospitality is short, and the qualifier is the hard part.
Peter says the end is near and then tells us to keep our heads and love each other deeply.
Peter assumes every believer has received a gift and expects every believer to use it.
Peter's most quoted verse about apologetics is surrounded by words about fear and gentleness.
Peter watched Jesus be insulted and stay silent, and thirty years later he still could not get over it.
On the Lord's Day Peter takes us to the cross with the words of Isaiah 53.
Peter gives scattered, overlooked Christians four titles that once belonged to Israel at Sinai.
Peter says trials prove faith the way heat proves gold, and he does not pretend the heat is pleasant.
Peter opens his letter with praise, and the praise is aimed at a hope that is already alive.