Following Under Fire (1 Peter 2:11-25)
How do we follow Jesus surrounded by people who don’t want us to? Should we conform? Should we fight? Peter shows us another way. [ Apologies on audio :’) ]
Purity (1 Peter 1:13-25)
For Peter, knowing God and what he’s done for us in Jesus is what gives life its richness. That’s why he never separates doctrine from how we live our lives. In this passage, Peter builds on the living hope we have in the gospel to show us how it impacts the way we live loves […]
Living Hope (1 Peter 1:1–13)
As we start a new year, we’re going to be spending four weeks thinking about our new birth into a living hope. Peter opens his letter by reminding us who we are: that is, just as Christ Jesus was chosen by God his Father, so too we have been chosen. There is nothing random or […]
Stand fast in the Gospel (1 Peter 5)
Because of what’s happened on the cross, and where the worlds heading, it shapes how we live in Christian community.
Suffering – 1 Peter 5
You’re going to suffer. God knows what that’s like – he suffered himself. So Peter’s call is to stand firm and entrust yourself to the faithful God who loves you, bled for you, and promises that suffering will one day end.
God’s People in the World (1 Peter 2:11-3:12)
God calls his people to live in such a way that unbelievers might see their good deeds and glorify God. The motivation for all of this? Christ Jesus, the example we want to trace over.
New People (1 Peter 1:22-2:10)
As re-born people of God we live new lives. Lives which can enjoy and experience real rest, because they have a firm foundation: Christ Jesus the cornerstone.
Chosen People (1 Peter 1:1-21)
Peter begins his letter by telling us that there is nothing arbitrary about our life here on earth. We have been chosen by God into a living hope which determines how we ought to live our lives in this temporary world.