God has forever called his people to show justice towards the fatherless (and the widow, the sojourner, and the poor) and we desire to live lives faithful to that call.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. — 2 Peter 3:17

The depth/level of our conviction that Christ will return is inextricably and proportionately linked to the Spirit’s work of conforming our character and conduct to Christ's Kingdom ethic.

Nick Parsons helped us dive into 2 Peter 3:8-10 and reminds us that followers of Jesus are to (eagerly) wait for Jesus’s return. We should do so with obedience, humility, faith, and wisdom.

There will always be scoffers/mockers of God’s kingdom. Because of this, Peter implores us to heed the moral requirements of the gospel, or what Paul in Galatians calls the ‘Law of Christ.’

For this last week exploring False Teachers in 2 Peter 2, Mike Wilcox joined us to look at False Teachers’ Claims and how we go about discerning them in community.

We often fail to see that forgiveness flows not just through a person (Jesus) but through a person in his official capacity as King (the Christ) crucified, raised, and reigning!

As a church, we’re spending Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday exploring the climax of the inbreaking of God’s Kingdom and the inauguration of the redemption for humanity.

We pushed deeper into Peter’s excursus on false teachers in 2 Peter 2:10b-17. We switched things up a bit this week and did a combo sermon with a follow-up Q&A. Give it a listen.