Studies in First Peter

Studies in First Peter: 35 Lessons for Personal or Group Study by Dr. Jack Cottrell In addition to my 49 years of teaching theology at the graduate level at The Cincinnati Bible Seminary (now Cincinnati Christian University), I have spent even more years than that as a preacher and teacher in local churches. I have taught hundreds and hundreds of Bible lessons, mostly for adult Bible classes. Some of my lesson series have been topical; some have been based on Bible books. Here, for the first time, I have decided to present one of the latter series in written form for public consumption. This book of lessons is not intended to be a scholarly commentary on the text of First Peter. I have not tried to present any details of an introductory or critical nature. I am approaching the text with the assumption that it was written by the Apostle Peter under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. I have written these lessons with the conviction that everything the Apostle Peter says is true and aut