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Come Follow Me 2019: 1 and 2 Peter
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1 and 2 Peter
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Reading Materials
Lynne Hilton Wilson, "1 and 2 Peter," Come Follow Me: The New Testament, 2019.
Overview of Peter’s First Epistle
- Terry B. Ball, “Peter’s Principles: An Approach to the First Epistle of Peter,” in Go Ye into All the World: Messages of the New Testament Apostles, 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002), 220–229.
- Frank F. Judd Jr., “The Case for Petrine Authorship of 1 Peter,” in The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr., Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 247–65.
- Taylor Halverson, “Reading 1 Peter Intertextually with Select Passages from the Old Testament,” in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 20 (2016), 151-176.
Overview of Peter’s Second Epistle
- John W. Welch and Brent J. Schmidt, “Reading 2 Peter as a Farewell Text,” in The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr.,Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 317–35.
Chosen Generation
- Gordon B. Hinckley, “A Chosen Generation,” Ensign, May 1992.
- Daedan Olander, “What Does it Really Mean to Be a Part of the “Chosen Generation?” LDS Living, June 2019.
Finding Joy in Trials
- H. Burke Peterson, “Come unto Christ Through Your Trials,” BYU Speeches February 1996.
- Neal A. Maxwell, “Grounded, Rooted, Established, and Settled,” BYU Speeches September 1981.
- Neal A. Maxwell, “But for a Small Moment,” BYU Speeches September 1974 .
- Sherrie Mills Johnson, “Think It Not Strange Concerning the Fiery Trial,” in Go Ye Into All the World: Messages of the New Testament Apostles, 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002), 230–243.
Preaching to the Dead
- Scott C. Esplin, “Wondering at His Words: Peter’s Influence on the Knowledge of Salvation for the Dead,” in The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr., Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 296–312.
- Richard L. Anderson, “Peter’s Letters: Progression for the Living and the Dead,” Ensign, October 1991.
- M. Catherine Thomas, “Visions of Christ in the Spirit World and the Dead Redeemed” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book Company, 2006), 354–372.
Divine Nature
- Robert L. Millet, “Make Your Calling and Election Sure,” in The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr., Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 267–82.
Christ as the Chief Corner Stone
- “The Cornerstone,” Ensign, January 2016.
Civil Authority
- Eric-Jon K. Marlowe, “’Honor the King’: Submission to Civil Authority,” in The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr., Eric D. Huntsman, and Shon D. Hopkin (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 283–96.
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