I’ve noticed that a lot of people in church lift their hands up high and close their eyes while singing, praying, and listening to the preacher. Why do they do this? Over the years, from time to time I’ll ask this same question to people whom I’ve observed doing this. Generally, the answer they give… Read More Bible Q&A: A Question About Lifting Holy Hands In Worship
Christians, it is possible to be in Christ’s kingdom right now…but not in the future.… Read More The Parable of the Weeds
What does it mean for us as Christians to fully or completely set our hope on grace?… Read More 1 Peter: How To Set Our Hope Fully On Grace
Why do we not want to receive or accept correction? There are undoubtedly many reasons, but perhaps pride is the biggest one. Perhaps our pride keeps us from realizing that correction is in fact a blessing when it is given in the right way and received in the right way.… Read More We All Make Mistakes…So Don’t Tell Us That We’ve Made One!!
This “good news” – “the salvation of your souls” (1:9b-10a) – was the fulfillment of these Old Testament prophecies that the prophets had diligently “searched and inquired” about (1:11). It had not been completely revealed to them during Old Testament times. Even “angels long to look” into these matters (1:12c), the Greek rendering of this phrase indicating that the angels so passionately desired to know more about these matters that they would in a figurative sense bend or crouch down to see it. Yet God’s plan to save mankind was now completely revealed to Peter’s readers, and us today, within the New Testament (cf. Rom. 16:25-26; Eph. 3:3-5). We today can now see and know that of which they could only glimpse and ask. What a blessing that is!… Read More 1 Peter: We Have What Old Testament Prophets and Angels Longed To Have
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