PASTOR'S CORNER

  1 Peter 2:1-3 Every New Year people, and even in the church, start by getting themselves ready by improving on what they lacked in the previous year.  Many Christians like Julie and I, are starting to organize what books we are going to read over the course of this year.  Julie’s pile is much bigger than mine.  We will get ready to go through the Bible again, which I believe is a great way of growing in the Scriptures.  Not to say, that there isn’t going to be some road bumps as you try to fulfill all this.  We do this, because in the new birth, we always want to strive to do better; not to win favor with God, but to honor Him as such.   This is the challenge for the born again Christian, as Paul address in chapter 2 of this letter.  The born again child is born of incorruptible seed which is a genesis or new beginnings. (1:21-22)  This is where we get the doctrine of regeneration.  In order to embrace the things of God, meanin...

  1 Peter 1:22-25   On the night Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper He said this to his disciples, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another : just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35.  To the church’s shame, she is at times characterized as self-seeking, contentious and even unloving and quarrelsome .  The church isn’t always known for her love and support for one another .  Instead of caring for the body we tend to fall into the category of finding ways to pick at each other, put each other down, rather than build up.   Peter calls his readers to be better than that!   Though they are scattered and facing such sufferings for Christ, they are to pull together and find strength to endure together .  By doing this, the church refuses to be broken or weakened from within.  Peter does this by ...