Fire-tested Faith: Walking out the Book of 1 Peter, verse by

Large print edition.The fire is not the end of your faith. It might be the making of it.The first letter of Peter was written to believers in the furnace - mocked at work, slandered by neighbors, pushed to the edges of their own towns for following Jesus. And the man who wrote it knew the fire personally. Peter failed beside one fire, denying his Lord three times, and was restored beside another, on a beach in Galilee. The apostle who steadies trembling believers in this letter is the man who once trembled himself.Drawn from more than forty-six years in the pulpit, Fire-Tested Faith - the second volume in the From Pulpit to Practice series - walks you through the whole letter, one passage at a time, across twenty-six sessions.Every lesson: - Sets the scene in the first-century world - and in yours- Prints the passage in full in both a time-honored and a contemporary translation- Opens up the original words with clear, everyday handholds- Illustrates the truth from history and Scripture - never fiction- Ends where Peter always ends: living it out, with questions for personal reflection or group discussionIt never flinches from the hard places - submission under unjust authority, the conduct of wives and husbands, the spirits in prison, the suffering God permits - but it teaches you to sit with the difficulty instead of resolving it cheaply.Whether you are a seasoned teacher or opening a Bible for the first time, these pages will steady you in the fire - and equip you to steady others. A goldsmith does not put metal in the furnace to destroy it. Neither does God.Twenty-six weeks. One letter. A faith proved gold.

Pagina's: 402, Paperback, Independently published