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.
Within the final greetings in his letter to the Romans, Paul included a declaration about the final victory of the church.
No matter how bad things get, God is still working out his own holy will through seen and unseen agents.
From prison, John the Baptist sent to ask Jesus if he was the coming one. Jesus answered by demonstrating that in the kingdom of...
