Tag Archives: 1 Peter 3:18

Time for a Change

Do you know what it means if you do what everyone else does and desire the same things they desire? It means you have been assimilated…. if you are pursuing the same goals, valuing the same stuff, and spending time the same way as everyone else, you’re not living here as a foreigner. Continue reading

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Living Backwards: 1 Peter and the Believer’s Hope

Do you see what was happening? The future was altering my present. Rather than living out of past hurts and losses, I was choosing to live into my future. You could say I was living backwards. That’s a skill that every believer needs to master. Continue reading

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Are People Basically Good?

Lewis’s reasoning was, as usual, spot on. But I, who have quoted Lewis more often than any other source, save the Bible itself, am forced to admit that the premise on which he founds his argument is faulty. He is assuming that total depravity means absolute depravity, which is not what most theologians mean by the term. Continue reading

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