The Apostle Peter wrote this first epistle to people who were facing a great deal of hardship and persecution from those in authority and from unbelievers in general.
How do you respond to persecution and mistreatment when it comes? Are you shocked and angered by it? Or do you respond in godly ways? What was Peter’s advice to God’s persecuted people in the first century and could it be just as important for us today?
We’re working our way through the book of Colossians in these weekly posts. In this lesson, we’ll talk about how Paul could rejoice in suffering, what he meant when he said he was “filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions,” how persecution can be like murder when it’s a crime of passion, the unfolding plan of God, and the mystery that had been hidden from earlier generations.
John Foxe was a 16th-century English historian best known for writing the book, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. It gives a detailed account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history. His book is about courageous men, women, and children who have been...
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