If you have been following theStory reflections regularly, you will notice that we have jumped from the last known letter that Paul wrote (to Timothy) to the last one that Peter wrote (to Christians scattered around Asia Minor).
If you and your companions were to come upon an emergency shelter after a long, cold and arduous winter hike in the mountains …
Read MoreI can recall sitting in my high school Chemistry class and hearing the pleading voice of my teacher asking us as students to remember the basic principles of molecular Chemistry and to pay attention to the formulas that we had learned. And if I had done so with a little more diligence, I might have done better in the class.
Read More paying attention, remember, testimony, lightSeldom in the 21st century do we encounter those who speak of real evil and sinister forces in the way that Peter does in this second chapter of his second letter. Like the short letter of Jude, which is thought to have been written about the same phenomena a few years later …
Read More judgment, false teachers, false prophets, hope, evilPeter hasn’t quite finished warning his readers about the sinister and evil people in their midst. In the first half of this chapter he cited the examples of angels and of the people in Noah and Lot’s day to illustrate how evil deeds and choices will lead to condemnation.
Read More alertness, filth, purity, selfishness, love, evil