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The Government

1 Peter 2:13-25

October 8, 2023 • Chris Martin • 1 Peter 2:13–25

Peter tells us to submit to the governing authorities. How do we submit to the government when we disagree? What about when there’s so much about their lives, and their beliefs, and their policies, that we disagree with? What about when they don’t live up to their mandate? Or what if they start to do things that go against our beliefs?

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Eternal Hope

November 19, 2023 • Justin Wellum • 1 Peter 5:6–14

As we come to the end of the book of 1 Peter, we are encouraged to remember the hope that we have in an eternity with Christ. We can trust God because he is sovereign over our past, present, and future.

Submit to Elders

November 12, 2023 • Chris Martin • 1 Peter 5:1–5

Submitting to spiritual authority is a foreign and even controversial topic to discuss...but the New Testament teaches that Christians are too SUBMIT to their spiritual leaders. Those leaders are called ELDERS.

Suffering is 🔥

November 5, 2023 • Chris Martin • 1 Peter 4:12–19

"We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." - C.S. Lewis