Unfortunately, some view religion as a clever sin management program.

To them, the Bible is reduced to a primer on good behavior.

It's as though our spiritual value is measured by staying out of trouble.

Well, these notions are about to be challenged.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall invites us to follow along in 1 Peter 3, where

we find timeless wisdom on God's grace.

Yes, obedience to God's law keeps us out of harm's way, but in reality, our obedience

produces wonderful blessings as well.

Chuck titled his message, Hope Beyond the Creeze.

When I was just a little boy, the Second World War reached its peak and my family had

moved to Houston, where my father, who was a little too old to serve in the military,

decided that he would change his career and go back to the trade that he had learned

as a young man, and be involved in what was called in those days, defense plant work.

Houston, as you know, is a city of industry and the particular place where he worked

built Sherman Tank transmissions and landing gears for the big flying fortresses as well

as some of the fighter planes that were being manufactured across the United States.

We didn't see much of my dad during those four, four and a half, perhaps five years, because

he was working from 10 to 15, sometime 18 and 20 hours a day, from six to seven days

a week.

We had only one car, and so we learned to walk to the grocery store and also to worship

at a church that was within walking distance.

My mother was raised a Southern Baptist, but in spite of that, the closest church to

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