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Words are the currency of civilization. They have a powerful effect in daily life by challenging, confronting or comforting the hearer. Near the end of his life, Peter wrote this letter to first-century Christians, warning them of the danger they were in from those seeking to destroy the church of Jesus Christ with corrosive words. Today, the church is in danger of being marginalized by secular...

The classic definition of faith is ‘believing God’: believing that he exists and that he loves the world he created. So Peter does not speak of signs, wonders and miracles—a striking omission for the preacher of Pentecost—but of faith. He does not want to focus on passing phenomena, however spectacular, but on the lasting grace of Jesus Christ and the salvation which he brings. A man was once called up to serve in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte,
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