Northwest Bible Church

“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ: to the chosen, living as exiles…” With these words, Peter opened his letter to followers of Jesus who were spread out and isolated, struggling and suffering.

The message Peter wrote back then… inspired by the Spirit of God… is a message God still means for us now.

Because, as believers, we will experience suffering. But it’s not what it seems. Suffering is not being done to us… it’s for us. And as we move through 1 Peter, we’ll see that even when we suffer, we’re called to live well.

We’re called to live like Jesus.

Pain is inevitable. We try to avoid it, numb it or downplay it, but it doesn’t erase the fact that pain is real.

But for believers, we can have hope in our pain.

There can be hope because we have a God who doesn’t want our pain to be wasted. It’s our pain that He uses to draw us closer… go deeper… with Him. And at the end of the pain, for those who choose to cling tighter… draw closer… go deeper with God, then that hope becomes reality. The hope that says we can be better… not in spite of… but because of our pain and brokenness.

Pain is inevitable. We try to avoid it, numb it or downplay it, but it doesn’t erase the fact that pain is real.

But for believers, we can have hope in our pain.

There can be hope because we have a God who doesn’t want our pain to be wasted. It’s our pain that He uses to draw us closer… go deeper… with Him. And at the end of the pain, for those who choose to cling tighter… draw closer… go deeper with God, then that hope becomes reality. The hope that says we can be better… not in spite of… but because of our pain and brokenness.

Pain is inevitable. We try to avoid it, numb it or downplay it, but it doesn’t erase the fact that pain is real.

But for believers, we can have hope in our pain.

There can be hope because we have a God who doesn’t want our pain to be wasted. It’s our pain that He uses to draw us closer… go deeper… with Him. And at the end of the pain, for those who choose to cling tighter… draw closer… go deeper with God, then that hope becomes reality. The hope that says we can be better… not in spite of… but because of our pain and brokenness.

Pain is inevitable. We try to avoid it, numb it or downplay it, but it doesn’t erase the fact that pain is real.

But for believers, we can have hope in our pain.

There can be hope because we have a God who doesn’t want our pain to be wasted. It’s our pain that He uses to draw us closer… go deeper… with Him. And at the end of the pain, for those who choose to cling tighter… draw closer… go deeper with God, then that hope becomes reality. The hope that says we can be better… not in spite of… but because of our pain and brokenness.

Death to LIFE… we’ve been saying this phrase over and over leading up to this Sunday.

Death to LIFE… it’s what that first Easter was all about

Death to LIFE… because of Jesus, it can be our reality

Today we celebrate that Jesus is alive, and that because of Him, we can have true life-change!

“One another” is a phrase found over 50 times in the New Testament, and each time we come across one, we see how it’s intended for us as believers to live out in relationship… in community… with each other.

We could choose to treat each of these “one another” verses like a suggestion and attempt to go through this life on our own, even priding ourselves over the fact that we don’t really need others. But we’d be wrong.

“One another”—He commanded us in His Word, and He perfectly modeled it for us while Jesus lived here on earth. The simple truth is this…

You weren’t created to do life alone.

“One another” is a phrase found over 50 times in the New Testament, and each time we come across one, we see how it’s intended for us as believers to live out in relationship… in community… with each other.

We could choose to treat each of these “one another” verses like a suggestion and attempt to go through this life on our own, even priding ourselves over the fact that we don’t really need others. But we’d be wrong.

“One another”—He commanded us in His Word, and He perfectly modeled it for us while Jesus lived here on earth. The simple truth is this…

You weren’t created to do life alone.

“One another” is a phrase found over 50 times in the New Testament, and each time we come across one, we see how it’s intended for us as believers to live out in relationship… in community… with each other.

We could choose to treat each of these “one another” verses like a suggestion and attempt to go through this life on our own, even priding ourselves over the fact that we don’t really need others. But we’d be wrong.

“One another”—He commanded us in His Word, and He perfectly modeled it for us while Jesus lived here on earth. The simple truth is this…

You weren’t created to do life alone.

“One another” is a phrase found over 50 times in the New Testament, and each time we come across one, we see how it’s intended for us as believers to live out in relationship… in community… with each other.

We could choose to treat each of these “one another” verses like a suggestion and attempt to go through this life on our own, even priding ourselves over the fact that we don’t really need others. But we’d be wrong.

“One another”—He commanded us in His Word, and He perfectly modeled it for us while Jesus lived here on earth. The simple truth is this…

You weren’t created to do life alone.