Canticle in 4/4 Time – I Peter 2:9

Jun 23, 2022 | Wednesday

Not very long ago, I preached a series of messages from verses 9 and 10. At least it doesn’t seem very long ago to me, because they were such a blessing to my heart. I have no idea whether or not you remember them. I hope you do, but forty months can seem like a...

Acceptable to God – I Peter 2:4-5

Jun 16, 2022 | Wednesday

You have just spent half hour at the grocery store, looking for the supplies you need for a camping trip. You have been planning this little get-away for a month, and in your pocket is the cash you’ve been laying aside to pay for it. As you go through the store, you...

Questions Babies Never Ask – First Peter 2:2-3

Jun 9, 2022 | Wednesday

One of the ways in which God keeps the Bible relevant throughout the ages is by using timeless illustrations. And for our instruction, the Holy Spirit has given us one of those illustrative metaphors right here. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,...

Angels in Sodom – Genesis 19:1-25

Jun 2, 2022 | Wednesday

This chapter introduces material which is not particularly welcomed or believed in this world. There is, of course, God’s condemnation of the sins of Sodom. And it’s not just that the city was destroyed for its homosexual immorality, but it’s that Jehovah has the...

The Gospel’s Written Seed – First Peter 1:23-25

May 26, 2022 | Wednesday

In addition to our text, let’s add two other scriptures. Psalm 126:1-6 – “When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD...

The Grassiness of the Flesh

May 19, 2022 | Wednesday

In concluding chapter one of I Peter, the Holy Spirit blends together three subjects: the new birth, the eternal Word of God and the weakness of human flesh. In order to fully understand any one of these, we must understand to some degree the other two. Why do we need...

Salvation’s Social Effect – First Peter 1:22

May 12, 2022 | Wednesday

There have been a number of life changing events in each of our lives. When you were born, your previous life, (and I’m not referring to some pre-incarnate spirit existence, because there was no such thing). When you were born, the life you enjoyed inside your...

Christ, as of a Lamb – First Peter 1:18-21

Apr 28, 2022 | Wednesday

Peter reminds us that God’s saints have been purchased out of sin’s market place by the blood of Christ, “as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” We often refer to the Jesus with the words of John the Baptist: “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the...

Calling on the Father – First Peter 1:17

Apr 21, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

The Lord Jesus was in the midst of His short period of public popularity. The last verse of Matthew 4 tells us that “great multitudes of people” followed Him. At that time He was in northern Galilee, but people came from as far away as Jerusalem and Judea. In order to...

Princes and Princesses – First Peter 1:14

Apr 14, 2022 | Wednesday

I no longer feel the same way, but when I was a child I had a silly dream; a wish. I dreamed about trading places with the eldest son of Elizabeth II, the Queen of England. Remember, I am a Canadian and my parents were loyalists. My father was born in England and both...

The Recommended Response – First Peter 1:13

Apr 7, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

Picture yourself on a walk to the park with your tiny, toy poodle. (It may take a lot of imagination.) Ahead you see a mother with a 6-year-old child, and the child is holding the leash of a 90lb. pit bull terrier. The dog sees you and your dog, bearing its teeth,...

The Tapestry of Salvation – First Peter 1:10-12

Mar 31, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

The Tapestry of Salvation – First Peter 1:10-12 I know very little about the ancient art of weaving, and I know even less about the making of tapestries. But I know that a tapestry is a piece of fabric with a picture, or design, woven or embroidered onto it. We have a...

Blind Faith; Blind Love – First Peter 1:8

Mar 24, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

Peter was writing this epistle to Christians who were living in the Roman provinces east of Greece and northwest of Israel. Many of them were Jews. They had become Christians because God graciously revealed their Messiah to them and gave them faith to trust the...

The Importance of Temptations – First Peter 1:3-9

Mar 17, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

As we have seen, Peter begins his letter by praising God and magnifying salvation by grace. He reminds us that our deliverance from sin and our adoption into the family of Jehovah is absolutely secure. That is because salvation is rooted, not in us, but in the Triune...

A Reservation in Heaven – First Peter 1:3-5

Mar 10, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday

Last October Judy and I traveled to Ohio and the Winton Place Baptist Church where I was scheduled to preach. Pastor Daniel Holt had made a reservation for us to stay at the Marriot Hotel in north Cincinnati. We drove up to the front door of that hotel, walked in,...