Peter instructs the church to arm themselves with the mind of Christ. After his discourse on suffering for righteousness' sake, he now reminds us that suffering in this way brings us closer to Jesus, and that we have had enough sin for a...

This week we return to 1 Peter 3:18-22 to consider one of the more striking lines of Peter's letter: "Baptism now saves you." Peter's statement can easily give rise to misunderstanding, resulting in some far overstating...

In a passage as comforting as it is often confusing, Peter recounts the Gospel to his readers. Christ's suffering and resurrection has precipitated an outpouring of judgment on the world, but also salvation through union with Christ and...

This week we continue to consider what it means to live as a witness to Christ.

Writing to persecuted Christians, Peter now instructs them on how to live when they have to stand with Christ against resistance. He tells them to fear God and not man and be prepared with an answer to explain their hope. But standing with Christ and...

Peter draws his concluding thoughts on submission. Starting with submission to government, he then exhorts the exiles to submit in the workplace, then to submit at home, and now to submit to one another in community. What might we learn from this...

In many ways, Peter's exhortations for wives and husbands follow a standard cultural script - a script that seems severely dated to modern eyes. But there is more here than meets the eye. What happens to the authority structures in society and...

The mission of elect exiles is to live like Jesus so our hostile world will find life in Jesus. This calls for submission to governing authorities--even submission in unjust situations where there is no way out. Our model for responding properly when...

Christians are aliens and exiles wherever we find ourselves in this world. At the same time, we are at home in every place because we are joined to the Foundation Stone who is the ground of all lasting reality and we are being built in Him into an...

The Gospel is God's abiding message of salvation to his people. This news will not run out of relevance, and no amount of time can dispute God's Word. The Gospel takes root in the lives of God's people like a seed in soil, and the...