Paul himself is being accused of being a people-pleaser, or as we might put it in our contemporary society, he's being seeker-sensitive. Paul calls us back to center our lives on God.

Peter is putting on a mask. How do we take off these masks? The only way to not pretend is to realize that you are okay as you are now. You are accepted by God.

Peter is putting on a mask. How do we take off these masks? The only way to not pretend is to realize that you are okay as you are now. You are accepted by God.

Peter was afraid and hypocritical. We are to be the opposite. Instead of fearing man, we need to fear God. Instead of putting on a pretentious, hypocritical show, we need to take off the mask.

Peter was afraid and hypocritical. We are to be the opposite. Instead of fearing man, we need to fear God. Instead of putting on a pretentious, hypocritical show, we need to take off the mask.

It's all too easy to let personal differences spoil our spiritual relationships. We tend to think we know the kind of people God uses, and they must be just like us!

It's all too easy to let personal differences spoil our spiritual relationships. We tend to think we know the kind of people God uses, and they must be just like us!

Wherever we look at the world today we see a lack of peaceful unity. There are wars and tension and friction. But those outside of the church would say the same thing is true of us.

Wherever we look at the world today we see a lack of peaceful unity. There are wars and tension and friction. But those outside of the church would say the same thing is true of us.

One of the devil's great tactics is to get God's people arguing about things that don't really matter. We need to keep the main thing the main thing!