This next Sunday I will speak at New Life Fellowship - my home church in Randolph. I am teaching a couple of times a month while the Pastoral search continues. I told my friends there that I'm going to teach through the book of 1st Peter for as long as I have the opportunity to do so. The first part of Peter's letter is a grand doxology of Praise to God who has called us to himself, saved us by His grace through the work of His Son, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and was resurrected from the grave, and who has given to us life. We are "born again to a living hope," Peter writes in these first five verses. 1 Peter 1:1-5 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed