Paid in Full: Fighting From the Victory of Christ

May 10, 2026  •  The Rev. Billy Cerveny

A swarm of bugs in a converted greenhouse apartment, and a landlord sure he had everything under control, open a reading of 1 Peter 3. Peter's strange claim that Christ proclaimed victory to the imprisoned spirits of Noah's day, read alongside Genesis 6 and Jude, reveals the cross as the decisive battle. Suffering is real, but believers fight from victory rather than for it, and Christ has declared their debt paid in full.