Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, I've been getting a lot of calls recently from people who want to sell me replacement windows. They know that I'm a homeowner — and by definition, every homeowner has a home. Their pitch is premised on the certainty of what I have — I'm a homeowner. Their typical move, then, is to try to tell me how necessary these replacement windows actually are. Their move is from what every homeowner has to what every homeowner needs. Well, we will look together this evening at the greeting of Peter's second letter. What we'll see is that this letter is premised on what every Christian has and what every Christian needs. Here, at the beginning of his letter, Peter tells us what every Christian has — faith and a righteous God and Savior — and moves from that to what every Christian needs. Indeed, his whole letter exemplifies this proclamation of what every Christian has and then the corresponding move to what every Christian needs. Every Christian has Christ; therefore (as we saw last week) every Christian needs the knowledge of Christ. Every Christian has faith, and therefore every Christian needs grace and peace in every facet of knowing Christ.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...