In I Peter 4:1-19, Peter continued the call for us to follow Christ by living exemplary lives according to God’s will. Above all, we are to love each other earnestly, knowing that love functions in the church to cover a multitude of sins.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
As the number of non-Jewish believers in Jesus began to overwhelm the original Jewish Christians, some wanted to make it harder for non-Jews to...