For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. – 2…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. – 2 Peter 1:5-7 This is quite a list of godly characteristics that Peter offers here in this passage. It starts with faith –…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. – 2 Peter 1:5-7 When our sons were growing up there were times when the level of testosterone together with immature impatience and a…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection… – 2 Peter 1:5-7 My first encounter with church politics took the shine off the rose for my view of the church and her leaders. Many years later,…

 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness… – 2 Peter 1:5-6 On a recent getaway cruise (brief, cheap, and restful!) we came upon a game of giant Jenga® blocks – a tower made of cardboard boxes stacked three…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness… – 2 Peter 1:5-6 When I think of issues around self-control, I tend to go to places where I lack self-control. Whether it’s eating, spending, gossip, alcohol use, or aggressive…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control… – 2 Peter 1:5-6 Canoeing the Mountains is the title of a very insightful book by Tod Bolsinger. He draws on insights from the exploration mission of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with… – 2 Peter 1:5-6 Somewhere along life’s way virtue has been set aside as an undesirable characteristic by much of the American people. What used to embarrass us now entertains us. What used to be honorable is now thought of…

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or…

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that…