Text: 1 Peter 3:8-12 Blessed are the peacemakers. “Where two or three are gathered…there’s a conflict waiting to happen.”  Wherever people are sin is.  This is true even within the church.  We are still struggling against our old sin nature as we strive to grow up in salvation.  Thus, peace is a very fragile thing.  It […]

Text: 1 Peter 3:7   The home is where the heart is.   The Bible makes it clear that there is an authority structure within the marriage relationship that is inherent to marriage itself and not the result of the fall nor is it negated by the gospel.  Both the husband and the wife have a […]

Text: 1 Peter 3:1-6   Submission is a gift of grace.   The Bible makes it clear that there is an authority structure within the marriage relationship that is inherent to marriage itself and not the result of the fall nor is it negated by the gospel.  Both the husband and the wife have a unique […]

Text: 1 Peter 2:18-25   There is purpose in our pain.   We all find ourselves in relationships where we are under the authority of someone else.  These “masters” might wield their authority well, creating a place where we willingly submit to their authority.  But what about when our “masters” or evil and abuse their authority?  […]

Text: 1 Peter 2:13-17   We are citizens best when we’re servants first.   The church has historically fluctuated between extremes when it comes to our engagement with politics and involvement within government institutions.  We are either overly engaged or neglectfully disengaged.  Peter reminds us that God has a good plan for the government and calls […]

Text: 1 Peter 2:11-12   Be holy from the inside out.   God calls us to take off our masks and be whole people wholly devoted to him and to his kingdom.  There is no such thing as “dual-citizenship” in the kingdom of God.  We are called out of darkness and into life, adopted as children […]

Text: 1 Peter 2:4-10   This is bigger than me.   In our sin, we tend to think more of ourselves than we should.  We forget that when we come to Christ we are adopted into a family.  We are assembled into a body.  We are raised into an army.  In these verses, Peter reminds us […]

Text: 1 Peter 1:22-2:3   Loved people love people.   Because of the presence of sin in our lives and in our world, everything is subject to decay and disharmony.  Just like the grass and flowers bloom for a season so our lives fade briefly.  But beyond just our physical health and lives our relationships tend […]

Guest speaker Irvin Wasswa teaches out of Psalm 115:1-11, and reminds us that that we are to lay down our idols, and that all glory and worship belong to God alone.

Text: 1 Peter 1:17-21   Stay clean and stay close.   Scripture teaches us that who we are determines what we do. Peter has told us that God has given us a new identity, a new future, and a new family. Since we are now his children we must live lives of holiness that bring […]