When God calls us to a 'life underneath', that is a life of submission to structures of authority, he calls us to do so as those submitted first and foremost to Him as God.

Because we are now, through Jesus, spiritual aliens in this world system, God calls us to be separate, but still shining the light of Christ's love.

As they suffered under slander and intimidation, Peter reminds his readers that they are, because of Christ, the people of God's eternal purposes.

The Holy Spirit has been given to empower the follower Christ for the most miraculous of feats: to allow Jesus Christ to live His life of love out through ours.

If they are to grow in God's salvation, Peter's audience must put away the rotten milk of sin and self, and long for the pure milk of Christ's goodness that they have already tasted in grace.

The Apostle Paul established his call to humility and sacrificial love by pointing us to a vision of Christ's own humility that took him from a throne to the cross.

The new work God has done in us , through His living and abiding word, enables us to love one another in a new way, free of the world's fears, failures, and foolish pursuits.

The Holy Spirit is the only one who can open our eyes to the things of God, in order that we not only know, but that we may live with the mind of Christ.

The gift of the Holy Spirit is not only the means by which God dwells in us, but the assurance that we belong to God as His very own possession through Christ.

Jesus taught His disciples that the Holy Spirit was coming in order to bear witness about Christ, His words, His work, and His will. As followers of Jesus, the Spirit desires to do that His work through us: bearing witness to God's Son.