18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when…

Audio of the memorial service for Mavis Lincoln, held on 21 June 2019 at Grace Christian Church Buderim.

13 Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.…

I. Remember that we are “sojourners and exiles,” 11 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. How are we Christians to live in relation this world? What should our attitude be toward it? Because, as Christians, we are…

We saw over the past couple of sermons that Peter spent some time reinforcing with his hearers just who they are in relation to one another in the Church. In today’s passage, Peter describes the church, not in terms of who they are to one another, but who they are in relation to God. The relationship…

1 Peter 1:22-2:3 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for “All flesh is like…

(How do we as Australian Christians manage living in our current political, social, and cultural climate, and in what we see where things may be trending unless the Lord graciously intervenes?) The people Peter has sought to encourage here in 1 Peter faced this in their time, and we’ve seen over the…

Back in the early 90s, Microsoft touted Word, their flagship Word processing program as one that was WYSIWYG - Whizzy-Wig. WYSIWYG Previously, word processing programs didn’t automatically show you what it would actually look like on the page once printed. So Whizzy-Wig was a great improvement in helping…

In a world where Christians are on the fringe, the Bible tells us to orientate ourselves on what the gospel has achieved.