Letter 101 — The Envelope: To the Pilgrims (1 Peter 1:1–12)
Season Three opens with a book of the Bible that went out as mail, addressed To the pilgrims of the Dispersion. A fisherman writes to scattered believers in five Roman provinces. Before he gives them a single instruction, he tells them who they are.
In this letter
- Season Three, Paper and Ink, and its title verse in 2 John 12
- A slow read of 1 Peter 1:1–12 (NKJV) in four parts
- How letters in the Roman world opened, and what Peter packs into the address line
- Rejoicing and grieving in the same sentence
- Parepidēmos teased as the week's word, a resident foreigner
Scripture — 1 Peter…
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