📚 CLIMBING THE STAIRCASE
Adding to Your Faith, One Step at a Time
A study of 2 Peter 1:5–8 • with Psalm 107 • King James Version
By CHUCK TRUSTY
Pastor | Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church
Peter’s eight virtues are not a menu to pick from. They are a staircase, and every step holds the weight of the one above it. This is a study of 2 Peter 1:5–8, with Psalm 107 in the middle of it, asking what happens to a believer who stops climbing — and what happens when he cries out.
Twenty-two chapters, gathered into six short booklets and released one at a time. Each booklet stands on its own, and each one is readable right here with a printable PDF alongside it.
Said plainly, before anything else: none of this is about how to be saved, or how to stay saved. A child of God cannot be lost. This is about how near to God a saved man walks while he is here — and what it costs him when he stops climbing.
THE SIX BOOKLETS
Booklet 1 — The Bottom Steps
Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance — the four steps the whole staircase stands on.
Chapters 1–4 • Read it here • Printable PDF
Booklet 2 — The Higher Steps
Patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity — and what it costs to reach them.
Chapters 5–8 • Read it here • Printable PDF
Booklet 3 — Those Who Drift
Psalm 107 and the four kinds of men who stopped climbing.
Chapters 9–12 • Read it here • Printable PDF
Booklet 4 — The Cost of Drift
The self-inflicted wound, the wobble before the wind, and wits’ end.
Chapters 13–15 • Read it here • Printable PDF
Booklet 5 — Then They Cried
Where they cry out, where God turns, and what the wise man sees.
Chapters 16–18 • Read it here • Printable PDF
Booklet 6 — The Top of the Stairs
Keeping the porch light on, and what Peter promises to the man who climbs.
Chapters 19–22 • Read it here • Printable PDF
⬇ Download all twenty-two chapters in one PDF
“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” — 2 Peter 3:18
— Pastor Chuck Trusty, Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church
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