Category Archives: General Epistles

I’ll never forget my first whitewater rafting trip.  Standing at attention in my blue life-jacket and yellow “brain bucket,” our young adult river guide warned of everything that could go wrong.  Most ominous was the “High side right!”—an emergency scramble onto the raft’s right side (outside the raft) to avoid rapids swallowing us up.  AsContinue reading “More Precious Than Gold Pt. 1: Teaser Intro to Peter’s Epistles”

In its most exalted glorified sense, Scripture presents hope not as an “it” or a thing. Hope is a Person. Hope has a name: Jesus. In fact, the writer of Hebrews points to Jesus as the Better Hope. So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable (for the law perfected nothing),Continue reading “Jesus is Our Better Hope”