Find 1 Peter: A Living Hope In Christ: Workbook Compiled By Jen Wilkin Textbook

was an excellent study of I Peter, I like the way the author assigned a weekly reading of the entire book of I Peter, and I liked the way she kept it a simple study of God's Word.
I have always loved I Peter, but this study gave me an even greater appreciation for the letter, This is a great study if you are wanting to dive deeper intoPeter without handholding, You need to have a certain level of selfdiscipline to complete it, and the application pieces will be between you amp the Holy Spirit with some application given during the videos.


All that being said, I really enjoyed this study and feel like I'm coming away with a much better understanding ofPeter.
This was an awesome Bible study! Im always hesitant to do studies because I get tired of busy work where the answers require no critical thinking.
This study forces you to wrestle with questions

youre unsure about and makes you realize how much you skip over or assume you understand when you read Scripture.
Jen will ask what certain words and phrases mean and its like I know what all those words mean but I havent thought about how they work together.
The homework is a bit timeconsuming but it truly is essential to understandingPeter and connecting all the themes, The teaching videos were helpful as well and thats where she would answer some of the harder questions you end up leaving blank.
This is solid biblical teaching and I look forward to doing another Jen Wilkin study! This was my first time doing a study by Jen Wilkin and reading all ofPeter.
I struggled with the homework questions, My brain wrestled with suffering and persecution in middle class America in, yet couldnt believe how relevant Peters writings were to my life.
I felt pushed out of my comfort zone with this study, Glad I did it! A Living Hope




With rain pattering on the roof of the minivan, I opened my tiny New Testament to the book of I Peter and dove in.
Ive learned that if I wait for perfect conditions to begin anything, Ill never get started, and the first step to a study with Jen Wilkin is: open your Bible and read.
When studying a short book like I Peter, its possible to read the whole thing in a sitting, and thats the first order of business each week of this nineweek study.
Therefore, in tackling I Peter: A Living Hope in Christ with Jen Wilkin, the foundation is laid for studying the Bible by.
. . studying the Bible. That means no commentaries and no study notes at least not until after homework is done, However, crossreferences, dictionaries, other translations of the Bible are fair game, and the process of working through this study will provide ample opportunity to learn how to use most effectively those aids in study.


When I read Women of the Word, Jen Wilkins first book, I was riveted by her firm belief that studying the Bible is a means of training our minds to love God.
That means Im not looking for tiny tweetable truths about me, That step of selfdiscovery follows on the heels of a deep pondering of this question: “What does the Bible say about God” Could this be what Paul was talking about when he told his readers to be “transformed by the renewing of your minds” Romans:

Reading in context and reading repetitively are key.
Diving into a study of the Bible without considering the who and the where and the why is like receiving a letter, tearing it open, reading part of it and ignoring the return address on the envelope.
Jens teaching via video provides some of this background reading and rereading provides the rest, Fivedaysperweek study questions over a period of nine weeks allow for a slow and thoughtful digestion of the truth served up in Peters first letter.
As one of Jesus inner circle and the leader of the early churchs outreach to the Jewish world, his words about our living hope in Christ ring true, for hopelessness is not an option for those who are promised an inheritance, undefiled and unfading! I Peter:In Jens words:


“We have that which will endure.
All the rest can fall away, and we lose nothing, ”

Major themes covered in Peters letter are our identity in Christ, showing honor to others, and Christlike conduct, thinking, and humility.
Jen Wilkins study is an invitation to read deeply on these themes, to engage in openended pondering, and to sit in the place of unknowing before rushing into a readymade answer.




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This is my first exposure to Jen Wilkin's Bible studies, The philosophy here is to, through repeat readings of the text, move through three stages of understanding: comprehension, interpretation, and application.
Each week's lesson is divided into five days, "Homework" includes highlighting key words in Peter's epistle, examining cross references, and exploring the Greek transliteration of selected words, Additionally, each lesson has a section preparing the student for group discussion, I prefer this workbook over the Precept Upon Precept one, at least for this book of the Bible, Love Jen Wilkins studies. She really makes you think and find connections, Faithchanging I've wanted to do a Jen Wilkin study for years because I have heard such great things about her work.
This was one of the most challenging and thoughtprovoking study I've done, probably since Beth Moore's Breaking Free and Believing God.
The lessons give you so much to contemplate, yet they break down the Word into small portions to focus on for each lesson.
This study is well worth the time, and if you're someone like me to tends to fall a little behind, it is worth every moment to just keep working on it after all the group sessions are over.
Don't wait, get a group together and letPeter transform your mind, Jen Wilkin has fabulous Bible studies that really encourage you to dig deep into the scripture and find your answers through only the use of biblical context.
I learned SO much about submission, stewarding God's grace, and suffering in this Bible study, Do yourself a favor and do this!days a week of study and very manageable load of homeworkminutes max, Wonderful study on suffering, humility, and enduring in the Christian life, I love how Jen Wilkin helped me exercise my Bible Study muscles by having me look up my own crossreferences and definitions without spoon feeding.
Second study of hers that I have done and loved it! This study was great! Wilkins does an excellent job at getting her reader to really dive deep into the book ofPeter.
It was a great way to learn her 'how to read the bible' skills and I feel as though I have such a great understanding ofPeter now that I have done this study.

Would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to dive into this book of the Bible, I really like the way Jen Wilkins encourages the reader to come to their own conclusions about the text before consulting with other resources.
The method she teaches for study built my confidence in my ability to study scripture without a prewritten bible study or devotional book.


Parts of this study were confusing or hard to grasp, but I just realized towards the end that there are podcast resources for each week that I am sure would have helped clear these things up.
Take advantage of those if you are just starting the study! So good, Just more work than I'm willing to do in this season, Points for honesty I started this study, at church, back in January of, For whatever reason, I never finished all of the homework on time, I recently picked it back up to finish the homework and the lessons coincided with the Sunday messages our preacher is currently preaching on.
The text ofPeter is printed in the book, most days can be done in underminutes, I really liked how she had you rewrite the section you studied in your own words each day.
Overall, highly recommend! Its a little less conversational of a style for the study than a Kay Arthur devotional study, but still has the same depth.
I loved this study!st Peter is very encouraging and I love the format of Jen Wilkins studies, I learn so much about not justst Peter but how the whole Bible connects.
I used Karen Jobes'st Peter commentary along with this study and it was a great help I only opened it up after I was done with each week.
Since I ended up not doing this Bible Study in a group I took my time going through this study, I literally sank my teeth into the book ofPeter for months and it was very fruitful, I will say this study was challenging and I found myself digging very deep, Wilkin encourages the reader NOT to use a study bible or commentaries at first, While I love a good Study Bible, this was a great personal challenge that caused me to dig a lot deeper into the Word.
One of my favorite questions throughout this study was the last question that she included on each day which was to summarize the passage.
What a simple question that really helped me to grasp the meaning of each passage, On another note, I didn't have access to the DVD's that accompany this study, I'm sure they are fabulous but they just weren't an option financially, If there is a Bible Study out there that you would love to walk through don't be afraid not to work through the study just because you can't view the DVD sessions.
did not find this study to be inspirational or uplifting, it was too academic with too much repetitive "busy work" type questions, I read these types of Bible studies to be inspired and to delve into my own spirituality, learning how to be more Christlike in my living.
I was disappointed to find nothing like that in this particular study, it was dry and clinical in picking apart the verses of the book of Peter, rather than applying the inspiration in the book to everyday life struggles of today like every other Bible study, I've read up to this point, from this publisher.
sitelinkThis book has been revised Excellent, indepth study onPeter! I'm using it on a mission trip, along with Jen's other book, "Women of the Word" to teach at a ladies conference.
I would highly recommend it! I have loved both of the Jen Wilkin studies I have done, She really knows how to get you to dig into the text and figure out what it is actually trying to say.
This most likely won't be my last study of hers, I didnt even have the videos of Jen teaching and the workbook was still so good, I appreciate that she makes you paraphrase EVERY verse so now I have the whole book paraphrased, which is such a good practice.
easystars.