Letter 104 — The Address: Resident Foreigners (1 Peter 1)
Peter's first readers became foreigners without ever leaving home. Today we ask how a believer lives as a resident foreigner without settling in or pulling back, and what Peter says to the ones in the fire.
In this letter
- What following Jesus cost in a Roman city
- Paroikia (G3940), the time of your stay here
- The Christian who settles in and the Christian who pulls back
- Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon
- Trials as refining, with Job 23:10
- Loving a Christ you have not seen
- A word for anyone who feels like a stranger right now
Scripture — 1 Peter 1:6–8, 17, 2:11–12, 4:4…
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