You ever got the impression that someone was just going through the motions. Like they weren’t even really feeling it? I have. I watch some performances in films and some of them look to be really lethargic. I have seen some games of football where one or two of the players have put in a […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (2): Love God … With All Your Heart, Soul, And MindI remember growing up having to memorise the Ten Commandments. It appeared a bit odd then, to hear Jesus expressing the two greatest commandments apparently not being one of the Ten. It appeared odd until someone showed me that the whole of the Law rested on these two commandments. All the Law. Indeed the Ten […]
Read More The Greatest Commandment (1): You Will Love The Lord Your God …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 – GodlinessThere are some themes in scripture that I didn’t pick up on until someone brings it to my attention. So here’s your challenge. Consider the writings in the New Testament. Gospels, Acts, Paul letters, Peter letters, James letter, Hebrews, John letters and the letter of Jude. Find one writer who doesn’t mention perseverance. Go ahead. […]
Read More Add To Your Self-Control – PerseveranceI 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 is no guarantee that people will ever hear from you again. You can send some messages out to the believers to encourage them. What would you say? One of the things that continues to impress me about the second letter of Peter is the heart of a man who wants people to remember how […]
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