1 Peter 1:22-25 Sincere love rules out hypocrisy, saying one thing and doing another. Pastor Todd also stressed that the command to love sincerely presupposes safe, deep, and meaningful relationships among the believers who make up the church. Some who listened to Todd’s sermon are already...
1 Peter 1:17-21 Pastor Dave began by asking us to find two words in this week’s passage that seem at odds with the discussion of God’s grace and mercy in verses 3-12 of Chapter 1. Those words are judges and fear. Dave taught that a person with a balanced knowledge of God views Him as...
1 Peter 1:13-16 Pastor Dave used a syntactical diagram to unpack what the apostle Peter has to say about the two key commands in the sidebar. One of the words that modifies the imperative set your hope is fully. Peter is commanding us to put all our eggs in one basket, the basket...
1 Peter 1:10-12 The two long sentences that make up this week’s passage are befuddling if you skim over them quickly. Pastor Dave helpfully camped on the main idea of the passage – prophecy fulfilled. God the Father could have sent His Son to earth out of the blue, with no advance...