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1 Peter (Program #14) -Growth in Life and Its Results (4)<\/p>\n1 Peter (Program #14) -Growth in Life and Its Results (4)<\/p>\n
The Bible in both the Old Testament and New tells us that man was formed of the dust of the ground and even as living creatures, we all are but clay <\/em>in the hands of God. Yet the apostle Peter in his epistles boldly declares that we have become living stones<\/em> useful in building up God’s house.\u00a0 Chapter 2:5 of his first epistle says “You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ<\/em>.”\u00a0 I think we can all easily relate to being lumps of clay but it may be more difficult for us to relate to being living stones, useful for God’s building and precious.\u00a0\u00a0 How is it that such a transformation from clay to precious stone is possible?\u00a0 Peter in both his words and by example of his own spiritual progress gives us a marvelous pattern.<\/p>\n Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a><\/p> Subscribe: TuneIn<\/a> | RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 Peter (Program #14) -Growth in Life and Its Results (4) The Bible in both the Old Testament and New tells us that man was formed of the dust of the ground and even as living creatures, we all are but clay in the hands of God. Yet the apostle Peter in his epistles boldly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6356,4],"tags":[7850,27,2207,25,26,5919,1731,96,29,1777,7494,7497,5233,7495,7807,1582,1835,7496,3680,7498,38,734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9251,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Play\"](\"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" "\\"Play\\"")
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