Marcos
Casting and care
Peter has a good suggestion in 1 Peter 5.7: Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. I have tried it once or twice or...
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Marcos
Sep 101 min read
Exalted
Just as I was not ecstatic about getting a crown, neither am I thrilled with 1 Peter 5.6: Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty...
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Marcos
Sep 81 min read
Fashion statement
God makes a fashion statement 1 Peter 5.5. What’s in style this season, in the Kingdom of God? Clothe yourselves… with humility. “Hey,...
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Sep 71 min read
Grace as a reward?
I am a a fan of simple definitions. But, perhaps I may have to rethink my definition of grace. I have always taught that grace is “un...
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Marcos
Sep 61 min read
Crowns
Speaking to the gray-haired shepherds, more specifically to the ones who were not in it for the power, the position, or the celebrity,...
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Marcos
Sep 21 min read
A simple, profound truth
The second half of 1 Peter 5.3 has profound truth... but being examples to the flock. I know that in Veronica’s and my case, what we lived...
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Marcos
Aug 301 min read
Just thinking,,, or SHOUTING!
Can I shout out 1 Peter 5.3, the first half, to a lot of pastors I know and love here in Mexico? not domineering over those in your...
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Aug 261 min read
Big man
Can I shout out 1 Peter 5.3, to a bunch of pastors I know and love? ... not domineering over those in your charge Am I a big man because...
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Marcos
Aug 211 min read
It's too bad
1 Peter 5.2 (ESV), up to the comma: Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, Or as my MSV reads: It doesn’t matter, Marcos, that you...
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Marcos
Aug 191 min read
Yet to come
Then the apostle reminds us that the best is yet to come: as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 1 Peter 5.1...
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Aug 181 min read
Amongst the commas
Truth is I have been avoiding the first sentence of 1 Peter 5. It overflows into three verses, and it has 10 commas, or similar...
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Marcos
Aug 161 min read
Short-term stay
Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. Pilate remarked, "Joseph, you are a rich and prominent man. This is a...
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Marcos
Aug 142 min read
Spoiler alert
As we read what Jesus is doing, teaching, and saying in the book of Matthew, everything changes after 16.18. I call this verse “the...
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Marcos
Aug 121 min read
Peter's problem
We are encouraged to be renewed in the spirit of our mind (Eph 4.23). Hmm, I did not even know my mind has a spirit. And we are...
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Marcos
Aug 101 min read
A terrible thing to waste
There is an odd connection, in 1 Pe 4.7, between self-control, sober-mindedness, my prayers. The end of all things is at hand; therefore...
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Marcos
Aug 102 min read
Road trip
Picture this... Ten travelers in a van, nine teens from our weekly youth Bible study, and one 69-years-young yours truly. Eight hours of...
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Marcos
Aug 81 min read
The audience was dead
1 Pe 4.6: For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they...
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Marcos
Aug 51 min read
So will we
but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 1 Pe 4.5 And let us not forget, so will we.
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Aug 31 min read
An anomaly
They scratch their heads. They can’t figure us out. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood...
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Marcos
Jul 281 min read
Time's up
The party’s over. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness,...
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