"What good is Christian faith if we can only praise God when things are going well? If
we cannot praise God when difficult times, unfair times, come, is our faith real? Every living person suffers. Non-Christians have to suffer alone. We, who are believers, suffer with the One who has suffered more than the rest of us combined."
1 Peter 2:13-25
Friday Evening Service
February 14, 2020
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1 Peter - 2020
1 Peter 1:1-2
January 10, 2020
"Peter, of course, had a specific audience in mind as he wrote this. We cannot be sure what his connection was to the recipients of the letter, but we know they belonged to Jesus. That’s why this letter matters so much to us. We, too, are God’s elect—chosen—and this letter is as much for us/to us as it was to those he is writing. We are God’s elect as well."
1 Peter 1:3-12
January 17, 2020
"I pray you can honestly praise God with a grateful heart for the new life He has given you! That new life isn’t just about heaven; it is also about life here on earth! After all, our new hope, according to Peter, is a living hope. Not a dying one. Is your life new? If not, why not?"
1 Peter 1:13-25
January 24, 2020
"'Therefore'... Peter begins tonight to deal with the appropriate response to the new life— the living hope—we have been given… We are call to 'prepare your minds for action'. Most of you know, by now, that I don’t like the word ‘prepare.’ I don’t think it’s urgent enough; that’s why I invented my own word—pre-prepare."