“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience…” II Peter 1:5-6a It’s a lot easier to try someone’s patience than to apply patience to a trying situation. At times, it feels unnatural, but we know having patience is possible because God…
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance;” II Peter 1:5-6a If adding virtue and knowledge to our faith wasn’t hard enough, we’re also instructed to add “temperance.” I’ll admit that I took what that meant for granted. A closer study showed I didn’t…
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;” II Peter 1:5 I turned thirteen and realized I knew little. It wasn’t that I thought I knew everything before that age, I just wasn’t aware I needed to know more. I took life at face value and put blind…
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue…” II Peter 1:5a “Wait. Faith isn’t enough?” I wondered how that could be as I re-read the verse in II Peter. Isn’t our faith what we base our whole Christian life on? Isn’t it what our hopes are built on? I questioned how we…
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 This past year felt like a bungie jump to nowhere. It was full of exhilarating, exasperating, exhausting and emotional ups and downs that seemed to leave many of us hanging just short of our desired destinations. I don’t…