Pondering on First Peter

  For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  1 Peter 1:6-12 For the Audio Version on Spotify click here -  1 Peter 1:6-12 1 Peter 1:6-8 1 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,  7  that the genuineness of your faith,  being  much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,  8  whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see  Him,  yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,  9  receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of  your  souls. After talking about the hope we live with – the hope of living with God forever (eternal life), Peter then goes on to tell his readers (and us), that between now and the time that we possess that eternal life, we will be grieved with...

For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  1 Peter 1:1-5 For the Audio Version on Spotify, click here -  1 Peter 1:1-5 1 Peter 1:1-2 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  2  elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. The author of this letter is the Apostle Peter, one of the 12 apostles chosen by Jesus. The letter is addressed to the believers in Jesus who, owing to the persecution that broke out against them in Jerusalem were scattered across many cities, and hence referred to as pilgrims, as they were no longer able to live in their own hometown. Peter goes on to say that these people were chosen by God. That’s something none of us should ever forget – we did not choose God, but He chose us. In fact, Peter ...