Opening Question

Have you ever been asked to do something for which you were woefully unprepared?

Introduction

For the next 13 weeks, we’ll be spending some time exploring a couple ancient documents: First and Second Peter. These small letters were written in the 1st Century, but they address Christians in ways that are neither outdated nor irrelevant.

Without question, Peter’s life was one of dramatic highs and lows, of impetuous words and actions and at later, of powerful life-changing preaching, of conviction and yet of compromise and capitulation. For this lesson, we begin to explore the background of Peter in order to give ...