In addressing the five qualities that are necessary for people to love one another well in the Church, Peter paints a beautiful picture of the hand of God upon the believer’s life, and reveals the remarkable blessings God is making available to His children - not only in the future, but right [...]
When a loved one is near death, we tend to elevate with particular emphasis the significance of their final thoughts and words. How much more then, ought we to do the same with the last words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? This Easter at VXV, pastor John will be taking [...]
Peter now turns his attention to the husbands in wrapping up his powerful discourse on mutual submission in Christian marriage. The Apostle calls the Christian husband to become a lifelong student of his wife, that he might be dialed into the distinctive and beautiful gifts that God has put into her, in [...]
The deepest meaning in Christian marriage is discovered in its unique expression of the joy and delight and intimacy to be found in the relationship between Jesus Christ and His bride the Church. God has given us marriage, primarily to teach us of and point us to and bring us upwards and [...]
At the root of most of our theological ills; the greatest hindrances to our growth spiritually and practically as Christians – those come when we distance our hearts from the core of the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel is not something we are ever to move off of or away from, to [...]
The Church is doing the people of God no favor when we fail to teach a proper theology of suffering, because we’re leaving out half the reality of the Christian experience. Peter tells us this week that not only did Christ die for our sins, but that he died to leave us [...]
Most Americans will spend over 90,000 hours in the workforce over the course of their lives, which means we essentially spend half of our waking lives on the job. Given that reality, the workplace becomes for us as believers - a stage upon which to unfold the grace and the glory of [...]
In a hard-hitting passage of Scripture, Peter takes up the believer’s relationship to human governing authorities established by God. Now as beneficial or mismanaged as any system of human government inherently is, the fact remains that God has established these temporary systems of authority - in order to prop up and stabilize [...]
In a stunningly important passage of Scripture, Peter tells us that the way we are to conduct ourselves before unbelievers is to begin with the integrity our interior lives before God. As that reality manifests itself in our exterior conduct, this text is telling us we can take the accusations right out [...]
