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1 Peter 1:15-16
15but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
16because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
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In the early days of his ministry, Billy Graham used to tell of a miner who worked the deep shafts of a Pennsylvania coal mine....
In the wool-dyeing trade of John Calvin's Geneva, cloth did not simply become colored — it was transformed. Artisans would submerge raw wool into boiling...
D.L. Moody once said that every time he read the Bible, he found himself looking into a mirror — and the reflection was never flattering....
When Peter wrote "be holy in all you do," the Greek word *hagios* didn't mean pristine or untouched. It meant set apart — dedicated to...
A master jeweler once told an apprentice, "Never judge a diamond's quality by comparing it to other diamonds in the case. Judge it against the...
A master builder once told his apprentice that the most important tool in his shop was not the hammer or the saw but the plumb...
A master engraver in 18th-century London kept one flawless copper plate locked in a glass case above his workbench. Every apprentice who entered his shop...
Jonathan Edwards once described holiness as "the beauty of the Divine nature" — not a list of prohibitions, but the very character of God shining...
In her *Interior Castle*, Teresa of Avila describes the soul as a crystal globe through which divine light longs to pass. But when the surface...
A potter does not rush the firing. She places the vessel into the kiln and seals the door, knowing that what emerges will be transformed...
In the mountains of Avila, there is an old stone well that locals say has never been pumped dry. But after winter storms, the water...
When Peter wrote "be holy in all you do," the Greek word he borrowed — *hagios* — didn't mean pristine. It meant set apart, dedicated...
When Peter writes, "Be holy, because I am holy," we instinctively reach for our to-do lists. We imagine holiness as something we manufacture through effort...
When Peter wrote "be holy in all you do," the church he addressed was a scattered community of immigrants and strangers — people pushed to...