April 30/09 Thursday: 2 Peter 3:1-18, God is patient.
Peter wants to encourage wholesome thinking about the end of time in his day and it applies to us as well. We are 2000 years down the road and the question remains, perhaps more urgently, when will Jesus return? Well, to God one day is like a [...]
April 29/09 Wednesday: 2 Peter 2:1-22, False prophets and teachers.
Peter warns those living in the truth about false prophets in Scripture and the false teachers among them. Apparently, false teachers were exploiting the people for financial gain, teaching false doctrine “even denying the sovereign Lord” and teaching shameful ways compromising the truth. They mislead [...]
April 28/09 Tues.: 2 Peter 1: 12-19, “Refresh your memory”
Peter sees it his responsibility to remind them of the truth in which they are established so that after he is gone they will remember. Apparently, Peter is writing this near the end of his life as made clear to him by Jesus. It was not [...]
April 27/09 Mon.: 2 Peter 1:1-11, Gifts of faith.
In his second book Peter is writing to the same people but he addresses them as those who have received a precious faith through the righteousness of our God Jesus Christ. His purpose is that his readers would have faith and practice that faith in [...]
April 26/09, Sunday:1Peter 5:1-14, “Cast all your anxieties on him…”
Peter addresses his fellow elders and encourages them to be shepherds of God’s flock under their care. Be like the chief Shepherd Jesus, willing and eager to serve, be examples to the flock. The message is for leaders to be submissive to Jesus, his humility, his [...]