Because the early Christians were accused falsely of all sorts of outrageous behavior, Peter urged his readers in I Peter 2:11-25 to be especially careful to live such honorable lives that even their enemies would end up glorifying God. This calling was especially difficult, because they often found themselves in unfair situations that they were powerless to change, in which they suffered unjustly. Amazingly, God called them and calls us to endure unjust suffering and gave us the highest motivation for doing so: Christ already endured unjust suffering for us.
Although sin twists the law for evil purposes, the law itself is good.
With the book of Acts, we finish our review of Bible history. Unlike Old Testament history, New Testament history ends on a very positive...
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...