To start the year, we are studying Peter’s first letter by beginning with I Peter 1:1-2. In each section, we will see how he describes the people of God. In his greeting, Peter calls Christians “elect exiles,” which is a curious expression that mixes something positive (elect, chosen, selected) with something negative (exiles, driven out, rejected). As it turns out, God’s election makes his people exiles in this world, and Peter reminds us that it is our call to live our lives as those who are in the world but not of the world.
The vision that John saw in Revelation 4-5 concludes the opening section and prepares for the rest of the book. After reading about the...
The personal letter Paul wrote to Philemon contains a beautiful picture of redemption through the work of Christ.
In Jonah 4, we find the most successful preacher of his day angry enough to die after his greatest triumph, because God had done...