…you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. We return to the subject of suffering. I remember a conversation with a friend in Colombia who said that one of his colleagues was writing a book on suffering to counter a growing movement among believers in that country that Christians shouldn’t suffer, and that if they did, something was wrong with their...

…you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Over the last couple of episodes, we have looked at what Peter writes about curbing our freedom as followers of Jesus to advance the mission we are called to and to avoid bringing disrepute to the name of the One we follow. Peter ties up these “ends” with the famous word “Finally…” in 1 Peter 3:8. This is his...

…you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. We know that the original manuscripts of the Scriptures did not have chapters and verses, as our more modern versions do. So, in a sense, I should not have separated 1 Peter 2 from 1 Peter 3 as I did in my last episode of Set Free. So let’s go back a little. In that last episode, we briefly looked at submission...