Leader Training for Session 11 (May 11, 2025)
Everything We Need (2 Peter 1:3-11,16-21) –
God has given us everything needed to grow spiritually.
2 Peter
With Anticipation (2 Peter 3:3-14, 17-18)
Peter reminded his readers that Jesus’ return would happen like a theft. Both Matthew and Luke record Jesus’ using the same image of a thief to describe His return (Matt. 24:43-44; Luke 12:39). Anyone who has been robbed can relate to this image. We would have done some things differently had we only known: placing…
Read MoreOn Guard (2 Peter 2:1-3; Jude 16-25)
In the background of my childhood Christmas memories stands a shiny, aluminum tree, illuminated by a rotating color wheel—red, green, blue, and amber. The silvery tree made no pretense of being something it was not. No one ever mistook it for a real tree. No one had to ask. It unmistakably was what it was—an…
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Blood of the Martyrs
For more than two millennia, the enemy has tried in vain to extinguish Christianity from the earth by slaughtering believers. God, in His sovereignty, has used what the enemy meant for evil to accomplish beautiful good. The blood of the martyrs cries up from the ground. They carry on the legacy of Stephen who, with…
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Being Useful – 2 Peter 1:3-11
Written by Dr. David Briscoe I like tools. Check that. I like having lots of tools! I bought my first toolbox—complete with wrenches, ratchets, pliers, and screwdrivers—when I was a teenager working on weekends at a service station. (That’s what a gas station was called before it became a convenience store with fuel pumps out…
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