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Read the following passages. What does Peter say in these texts about the importance of both government and church leadership, and how Christians should respond to both? How should his words be applied to our situations today, regardless of where we live
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The end of this study. What are two or three blessings that you have experienced in our twelve weeks of study of the two epistles of Peter? Besides studying these two messages, have you also considered aspects of the life of Peter as he mentored his fellow disciples and the early church? Although as Protestants we do not accept that Peter was the first pope, do we look to Peter as a stalwart and effective leader of the early Christian church? How so?
Read more at the source: 13 Major Themes in 1 and 2 Peter – Discussion starters
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The first Bible text in this weeks lesson, Isaiah 53:5, 6, reminded me of two songs from Handel’s “Messiah” ; Chorus 24 “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs” and “No 26 Chorus “ All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray”. The Memory Text then follows the story very closely with many beautiful hymns of the story of the cross: Hymn 237, “In The Cross of Christ I Glory”, Hymn 303 “Beneath The Cross Of Jesus, Hymn 154 “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”, Hymn 328 “Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone”, just to name a few. The themes from these hymns carry successfully through the Lesson study on Sunday also, with the culmination of our faith in Romans 3: 21 , 22 Hymn 517 “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”, or Hymn 523 “My Faith Has Found A Resting Place” and our salvation: Hymn 339, “God Is My Strong Salvation” .
Read more at the source: Singing with Inspiration – Lesson 13
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A theme that Peter returns to more often than any other is posed by the question he asked in 2 Peter 3:11 : “Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness?” (NRSV). Image © Bill Osborne from GoodSalt.com Read the following texts. What does Peter say about Christian behavior? 1 Pet. 1:15-17 , 1 Pet.
Read more at the source: Monday: How Should We Live?
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Read the following passages, and note what each reveals about salvation: 1 Pet. 1:2 “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” 1 Pet. 1:8-9 “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.” 1 Pet. 1:18-19 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:” 1 Pet. 2:22-25 “Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed
Read more at the source: Sunday: Suffering, Jesus and Salvation
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