Elect exiles, spirits in prison, slaves, wives, the devil qua prowling lion, but above all lots and lots of the risen Lord Jesus... the First Epistle of Peter has it all! Dad and I get so carried away with this brief letter than we sort of rush to finish at the end, and even so have an outsized episode. But don't worry, we get into that bit about Christ preaching to the dead. Plus, Dad mispronounces French again, and Sarah goes off on Bible-believin' Christians who deny that baptism saves, when it says so right here.

Notes:

1. Related episodes: How To Be a Congregation, Baptism: Infant and Otherwise

2. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter

3. Harink, 1 & 2 Peter

4. My sermon on the "elect exiles" of I Peter 1

5. And my book To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A Practical Guide to Clergy

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