Passage: 1 Peter 3:1-7 Using this passage as our launching point, we will spend the next three weeks looking at marriage from a biblical perspective.

Passage: 1 Peter 2:18-25 As we continue to see how Peter would have us live godly lives in a pagan culture in such a way that God would be glorified, we move this morning from the realm of our role as citizens to that of employer/employee relations. What Peter says about the master/servant roles of […]

Passage: 1 Peter 2:13-17 For the next four weeks, we will be getting very specific as Peter shows us how to live godly lives before unbelievers in such a way that God is glorified. This week, he focuses on our responsibilities to the government as Christian citizens. This is a word we all need to […]

Passage: 1 Peter 2:11-12 Peter has spent the opening part of his letter telling believers about their new identity in Christ and the difference that should make in the church. Now he shifts his focus, once again addressing believers as aliens in this world and now directs their behavior in a hostile culture.

Passage: 1 Peter 2:4-10 In America, we often struggle against a tendency towards independence and self-reliance. While these characteristics can sometimes be admirable in certain situations, they have no bearing on the Christian life. God made us for community and that community is made up of a diverse group of people whose only point of […]

Passage: 1 Peter 1:22 – 2:3 In light of what God has done for us in Christ, Peter now calls his readers (including us) to live holy lives. To do so will require a reorientation of our thinking, both as to the past (what Christ has accomplished) and as to the future (our accountability to […]

Passage: 1 Peter 1:13-21 In light of what God has done for us in Christ, Peter now calls his readers (including us) to live holy lives. To do so will require a reorientation of our thinking, both as to the past (what Christ has accomplished) and as to the future (our accountability to God).For both […]

Passage: 1 Peter 1:3-12 Last week as we began our study in this passage, we focused on the fact that joyful faith sustains us in this life as we considered the joy we should have in our salvation. This week, we finish our study and we see two additional aspects of a joyful faith that […]

Passage: 1 Peter 1:3-12 Peter’s key theme in this text is that the Christian life should be one of tremendous joy resulting in praise to God. In one long and complex sentence in the original Greek, Peter declares that God is to be blessed and praised for His work of redemption. As recipients of that […]

Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-2 Today, we begin a new sermon series in the book of 1 Peter entitled STAND FIRM. First Peter was written to Christians just like you and me who were struggling as they were being marginalized by their society, alienated in their relationships, and threatened with the loss of their honor and […]