The essentials of the Christian faith
The Bible passages that are the essentials of the Christian faith, involving sin, forgiveness, redemption, confession, and God’s love for us. Presented by a child, a teenager, and a mature adult. Regardless of one’s age or spiritual maturity, there are a few basic truths to which we all must return, and so shed the barnacles […]
Treasure in jars of clay
We have all this treasure in clay jars, a metaphor for our human vulnerability, making it clear that the power belongs to God not us (2 Corinthians 4:7). Indeed, it takes shape in our contradictory experiences of being afflicted, but not crushed; perplexed but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but […]
Living like you are born again
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be […]
