"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 1:3-12
Friday Evening Service
January 17, 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 1:13-25
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."
1 Peter 2:1-5
January 31, 2020
"We have all heard Christians praying something like this: ‘Lord, take my anger away from me.’ Or, ‘Lord, make me consistent (as opposed to hypocritical).’ Or even, ‘Lord take this sin (examples: lust, drinking, drugs, etc.) away from me…’ Peter, ever the practical one, is telling us that taking all that stuff away from us is not God’s job! Why? Because He already did that at the cross! He put the desire in your heart to do the right thing."