Sermons on 2 Peter
FAITH PLUS: LOVE
handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH PLUS: KINDNESS
handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH PLUS: GODLINESS
handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH PLUS: SELF-CONTROL
Handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love..” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH PLUS: KNOWLEDGE
Handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love..” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH PLUS: GOODNESS
Handout 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love..” 2 Peter 1:5-7
FAITH MEANT TO BE MORE
Handout 22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. 25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.26 When the…
A STRANGE BELIEF ABOUT THE END
Handout Do you ever feel out of place? Do you ever feel like you are different? Do you ever feel like you are a stranger? As Christians, we are supposed to feel this way because, according to 1 Peter 2:11, we are “aliens and strangers” in this world. But what does such an identity entail? The book of 1 Peter is a “how to” guide for strangeness, and, so, we turn to it to discover how we are to be…
The god Called Now
We live in a world that worships time. Technology is constantly making things faster in order to satiate our desire for instant gratification. For example, we have instant coffee, instant meals, instant pots, instant replay, instant messaging, Instagram, etc. As a result of our worship of the god called now, we are finding it more and more difficult to wait. Yet waiting is a tool used by God for our benefit. In this lesson we explore why we worship the…
The World is Passing Away
Jesus declared in Matthew 24:35 (ESV) and Mark 13:31 and Luke 21:33 that “Heaven and earth will pass away.” Both Paul and John indicated that “the world is passing away” (1 Corinthians 7:31; 1 John 2:17). Scripture does not hesitate to inform us that the world has a limited duration, a duration that will come to an end on “the day of the Lord” (2 Peter 3:10). So, what exactly will happen on “the day of the Lord,” when will…