Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, imagine going on a backwoods expedition with one of the outdoorsmen in this church. Your guide might show you all the gear that he's gotten together, all the sleeping bags and all the fish hooks and rifles and camp stoves, the tent and the port-a-potty and whatever else it is that outdoorsy types take on their expeditions. If he has a particularly bad case of the outdoor bug, he might even tell you how he acquired all this stuff, and explain to you blow-by-blow how to use it. Well, in one sense that's what we have tonight. This is a gear guide to the Christian life by the most outstanding of the original twelve apostles. You may not be an outdoor enthusiast. If fishhooks and camp stoves bore you, you would politely explain to your friend that you just remembered that you need to go home and read your Bible. Because indeed, brothers and sisters, this gear guide to the Christian life should excite us all! Peter is showing us what we need to be like Jesus, what we have, how we got it, and how we use it. We have everything we need for a godly life — and with this instruction from the apostle, we have no excuse for not making the best possible use of it.
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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...
