If there’s ever been a moment when the church needed to recover Peter’s understanding of the word “knowledge,” it’s right now. We are living in an age in which spiritual “knowledge” is minimized, while spiritual apathy is maximized. It is an age marked by spiritual drought—where the soul quietly withers, only appearing alive. It is an age in which false teaching intimidatingly goes unchecked, and cynicism is popularized and celebrated as a virtue. The sad result of such an ap

Zephaniah uses an ancient winemaking metaphor to create a striking image of God’s people who have sat spiritually undisturbed for so long that they have become internally thick, stagnant, and spoiled—like wine left resting on its dregs until the sediment hardens and the whole batch loses its vitality.r

We all would agree that Peter writes specifically about Christians possessing a saving knowledge (epignōsis) — that deep personal and experiential, relational, morally transformative knowledge of Jesus Christ (1:2–3, 1:8). But did you know that he also uses another term for general knowledge (gnōsis) or distant knowledge (1:5–6) for a special group of people within his church community? Both epignōsis and gnōsis have a root definition of 'knowledge.' But the difference bet

The idea of “losing one’s salvation” is a shocking thought. Reading through 2 Peter, the shock sizzles immediately in the very first verse. The false teachers whom Peter later condemns in chapter 2 aren’t outsiders slipping in through cracks. They are insiders like Peter himself. He speaks to all his readers as those who have “obtained a faith of equal standing with ours” (2 Pet 1:1). Whoever “us” refers to—apostles or other believers—the point is clear. Peter is talking to p

No one expects Peter to begin his letter with an earthshattering statement. But he does. He opens his second letter purposely using a specific undeniable grammatical construction that shakes the ground under every reader who understands what he is doing. Using this linguistic grammatical structure... Peter claims that Jesus is God! In 2 Peter 1:1, Peter uses a Koine Greek grammar rule, (what grammarians have termed the Granville Sharp Rule) to present A Grand and Sharp Divine