Marcos
Something better!
Yesterday I mentioned our “old rebellious nature.” It’s our ex-nature. It’s old, worn-out, and useless to us. In fact, it is detrimental...
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Marcos
May 91 min read
Object lessons
I'm the first to admit that I'm a sucker for extreme object lessons. I'll put a ballon in a person’s mouth and shoot a dart at it. I'll...
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Marcos
May 81 min read
Keep those claws in
Peter begins 1 P 2.13-17--his section on submission--similar to Paul in Ephesians 5 and 6. “Submission” is a term that tends to get our...
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Marcos
May 61 min read
Us and them
In my never-so-humble opinion, me thinks that we are ever-so-ready to draw lines in the sand between us, and those who do not follow...
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Marcos
May 21 min read
Near and far
More poignant poetry from the psalmist, this time it is David: Be not far from me, for trouble is near. And now, after Calvary, after...
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Marcos
Apr 301 min read
The pregnant man
Last week, after 55 years of Bible ready, I came across this verse “for the first time.” David poetically writes what is subtitled as, a...
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Marcos
Apr 291 min read
Three absolute truths
There are three absolute truths in I P 2.11. Life… I am just passing through. Abstinence... 100%. It’s not what’s in style, but is what’s...
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Marcos
Apr 281 min read
Then and now
How ‘bout this, from 1 Peter 2.10: Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people. Once I was a nobody. Now, I am a WOWbody!
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Apr 251 min read
Off track
If we are a chosen people, according to 1 Peter 2.9 we are also chosen proclaimers: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy...
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Marcos
Apr 161 min read
Destined
We can see, in his first epistle, that Peter is a true disciple of John Calvin. In 1.1 he was writing to the ELECT. Peter, an apostle of...
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Marcos
Apr 141 min read
Taylor's first Bible
Fifteen-year-old Taylor is one of the teens at our Giddyup Bible study, and he’s been just soaking it in. We host the Bible study in our...
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Marcos
Apr 132 min read
Pure and simple
Do forgive me if I bore you with writing styles. Who cares? I do, ever since Sr Mary Lou taught me 10th grade English, then promoted me...
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Marcos
Apr 111 min read
Subtly slimy
Sin. We think of the loud thunderous glaring gongs of sin—“big things” like sex, drugs, abuse, perversion, murder. But Peter starts off...
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Marcos
Apr 91 min read
Grass
I used to like grass. But I didn’t know that I was like grass. A short-lived greenery, destined to fade away into a Christless eternity....
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Marcos
Apr 81 min read
I want to
Peter reminds us, in chapter one, that we have pure souls. Then he mentions pure hearts. I don’t know if a pure heart is part of a...
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Marcos
Apr 71 min read
A superb inheritance
Previously Peter mentioned my old passions (how fun I thought they were!). Peter told me [1 Peter 1.14] that I was doing them in...
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Marcos
Apr 41 min read
No molded ugly
I am going to grab my King Jimmy for verse 14, he shoots really straight. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to...
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Marcos
Apr 11 min read
Holy holy holy
"…He who has called you is holy.” Yep, I have read in both Isaiah and Revelation that God is triple holy. Holy. holy, holy is the Lord....
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Marcos
Mar 311 min read
Here for it
Saturday night I walked amongst a crowd of praising teens, talking to Jesus in advance of being announced as the speaker at the...
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Mar 291 min read
Plain and simple
Verse thirteen catches my attention in the ESV: “Therefore, preparing your minds for action…” Sounds like God is saying, “talk yourself...
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