By Rev. Lilian Karinga, All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi, Kenya

Apostle Peter: A Father of Faith

1 Peter 1:1-2

I want to believe that we all get excited every time we receive a letter or a message from someone we care about or look up to. Can you imagine what it meant for the early Christians to receive a letter from the Apostle Peter? It must have been comforting!

A letter in my view represents much more than words; it represents the person of the writer. In the next few days, we hope to reflect on some of the teachings and instructions that the Apostle Peter gave in the two epistles that are called by his name. The purpose he gives for writing the two letters is that they may serve “... as reminders to stimulate them ‘his hearers’ to wholesome thinking” (2 Pet 3:1).