Today on InSight for Living from Chuck Swindall.

Slander says one person is disparaging gossip.

It destroys the confidence in an individual and it bruises the reputation.

Why don't we make a covenant to attack our own tendency toward envy and our temptation

to slander?

We will make living in the family of God so much more enjoyable.

When you attend your local church, sometimes you can feel the irresistible love and affection

between brothers and sisters in Christ.

It's a result of Christians working together in unity.

But tragically, sometimes we can attend church and sense a subtle undercurrent of resistance

that drives people apart.

So how do we cultivate relationships at church that are compelled by God's love?

Today on InSight for Living, Chuck Swindall will answer this question and more as our

study in 1 Peter 1 continues.

He titled today's message, Hope Beyond Division.

In the letter Peter wrote, the first letter, there is a never-to-be-forgotten command

that sort of oozes out of the page of the first chapter and on into the second.

It's the command to love one another.

Verse 22, What makes it possible?

I find three things at the beginning of this verse, since you have in obedience to the

truth.

You have to abide your souls for a sincere love of the brethren.

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