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The True Standard – 2 Peter 3:14-18
Jesus chose twelve of his disciples to be apostles, that is, ones especially trained and equipped to be his authoritative representatives. They would be the touchstones of the truth. Jesus knew his message
Continue reading...How God Measures Time – 2 Peter 3:8-13
How does God measure time? How do we measure it? Time is a crazy thing. We talk about it running slow at times and at others running fast. Is it really? No, but our perception of it changes depending on
Continue reading...Where Is the Promise of His Coming – 2 Peter 3:1-7
I watched a video from the Afrikan Village and Cultural center designed to free me and empower me and help me reclaim my greatness. You may not want to listen to it because it is over an hour long, but
Continue reading...Look Great, Taste Terrible – 2 Peter 2:17-22
Many years ago in my first and last attempt at being a vegetable gardener I planted radish seeds (I loved radishes then and now, but they no longer love me back). When we harvested our radishes they looked
Continue reading...Tickle Me: 2 Peter 2:10b-16
Are your ears ticklish? I don’t think mine are. If you want to torture me it’s my underarms that are most ticklish. Some people crumble when you squeeze their knees. Others have ticklish necks
Continue reading...The Certainty of Judgment: 2 Peter 2:4-10
Perhaps one of the most frustrating aspects of this world is that it seems wicked people often get away with their wickedness and those they sinned against suffer unjustly and are not vindicated. Why doesn’t
Continue reading...Test and Fate of False Teachers: 2 Peter 2:1-3
As much as I may disagree that one can lose one’s salvation, I would not label that a heresy. Heresy always subverts the heart of the faith, the gospel itself, and the character of the God who is
Continue reading...A Standard to Judge By: 2 Peter 1:12-21
Knowing false doctrine from true requires having a standard by which to judge. Immediately following Jesus’ ascension the apostles were that standard. Of course, they would not always be with us,
Continue reading...Discerning False Doctrine: 2 Peter 1:3-11
How do you discern false doctrine? Well, first of all you have to be looking for it, and that may feel like a very dour approach to life. But the gospel is so important and the susceptibility of humans
Continue reading...Orthodoxy and Heresy: 2 Peter 1:1,2
I recently was in a meeting about a governance approach the organization I belong to is trying to promote. We were talking about different approaches to governance and about not including one of the hallmarks
Continue reading...The End of the Matter: Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
We move now from the Preacher’s own words to those of the author and his concluding remarks about what he has shared with us. An old beer commercial used to say, “You only go around once…you’ve
Continue reading...Youth and Old Age: Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:8
The Preacher has been holding up the mirror to our faces, urging us to see the reality we so want to ignore. As we have aged we have seen the mirror clearly revealing the disintegration of our youth. I
Continue reading...How Should We Then Live: Ecclesiastes 11:1-8
Years ago a well-known apologist/evangelist, Dr. Francis Schaeffer, created a video study called “How Should We Then Live,” an attempt to give a Christian answer to the world our philosophical
Continue reading...Wisdom, Good or Bad: Ecclesiastes 9:13-10:20
The Preacher feels the need to bring home the point that wisdom is not the answer to life, but is preferable to foolishness. His wisdom had helped him see the futility of life and of the search for some
Continue reading...Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Ecclesiastes 9:1-12
Are we supposed to like the book of Ecclesiastes? No, at least not from the perspective that this book makes us feel good. But it is like he wrote earlier, “It is better to go to the house of mourning
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