Peter believed that love was essential to knowing Jesus. It was the crowning quality essential in knowing Jesus. Like all the others, if you didn’t have this quality and increased in it then you would be unproductive and unfruitful in the only pursuit in life worth having. A good friend and I were considering the […]
Read More Add To Your Brotherly Love – LoveYou know brotherly love. Honestly. You know it. Yet there is more to know about it. You don’t even need to have a brother to know brotherly love. You don’t even need to be male to know brotherly love. When Peter encourages his readers to add brotherly love, he could have been referring to the […]
Read More Add To Your Godliness – Brotherly LoveThe issue of adding godliness so that you’re not unfruitful in knowing Jesus is one of the most obvious connections ever. It really is. So, unsurprisingly, in as much as it is that obvious, in all our love for Jesus and giving Him thanks for all He’s done for us, there is still missing the […]
Read More Add To Your Perseverance – GodlinessI could write a lot about self-control. I have certainly been considering it carefully in the last few days and even in preparation for this blog entry I had a whole lot to write about the matter. Things like a proposal that the enemy of self-control is self-indulgence. Things like how self-control isn’t about willpower […]
Read More Add To Your Knowledge – Self-ControlAhhhhhhh knowledge. Good things said about it. Bad things said about it. It’s worth knowing what kind of knowledge Peter is talking about here. Thankfully, Peter starts and finishes this letter with exactly the kind of knowledge he’s talking about. I loved the accumulation of information back in the day. In fact to be fair, […]
Read More Add To Your Goodness – KnowledgeIn pursuit of moral excellence. I have come across either in reading or in conversation the issue of virtues and vices. I hear it mentioned casually that everyone needs to have their vice. Their little bit of naughtiness as a release. Their own little foible or flaw that they indulge in. They know they shouldn’t, […]
Read More Add To Your Faith – GoodnessThere’s quite a lot of things that get praise. Someone sings a song on television and it gets praise. Someone scores a goal and it gets praise. Someone draws a picture and it gets praise. Someone makes a meal and it gets praise. You name it and it gets praise for it. A lot of […]
Read More It’s PraiseworthyIt’s Excellent: Opening I was sharing with someone I have the honour of tutoring that there two ways to approach learning. Learning to pass or learning to love. For some it’s easier and more constructive to set up an environment for learners to learn to pass and where exceptional students are found stretching them further […]
Read More It’s ExcellentOne of the things I love to hear is people say, “That’s right.” Why do I love it? When things are not right, when there is that little bit that kinda spoils it. When there is that element that just makes the something off-putting, it is not a pleasant experience. To dwell on that which […]
Read More It’s RightTrue. I love the Greek meaning of the word looking at it being unconcealed – nothing hidden – it is as plain as day. It reminds me of the state of humanity before the fall – naked and not ashamed. My upbringing had a lot to do with making a big deal of what […]
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