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a call to the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, GenXers, Millenials, and others
Reading:

Psalm 24

I’m not getting back to 2 Peter as quickly as I anticipated. Maybe a side lesson in that is this: Once you stray, return is difficult.

Fact is, though, I was only going to read Psalm 24, not comment. But verse 6 gripped me. Continue reading →

Because those who know need reminding
Reading:

2 Peter 1:12-15

  1. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
  2. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
  3. Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
  4. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

Peter’s readers knew these things. And they were solidly grounded in that truth. I gather these folks faithfully lived out the truth they knew.

Nevertheless, Peter knew they needed reminding. So he committed himself to being faithful in reminding them. “Always.”

I know a lot about the Bible and about living the Christ life. I am well-established in what I know. But I still need reminding. “Affirming,” they buzz nowadays. Continue reading →