Intro There is a popular saying which I think was first spoken by Joseph Kennedy, father of John F. Kennedy, which goes: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” [1] Later, singer Billy Ocean, in the early 1980s, popularized it further when he put it into a song. It ended up becoming the theme…

We have been talking about what it means to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ as we take this living hope out to others. We said it involves a recheck of our identity (1 Pet. 2:9-10), it involves having the objectives right (1 Pet. 2:11-12) and thirdly, it involves submission (1 Pet. 2:13-3:7). God’s…

Title: The Missionary Killer: Fear of Man Text: 1 Peter 3:13-17 Theme of Passage: Your willingness for suffering and your lack of the fear of man will be a testimony to the unsaved. Interrogative: Do you fear God more than you fear men? Are you more concerned about looking stupid than acting sinfully?…

ME Have you ever gotten the news you needed to hear after a deadline? I wish I had found the book of 1 Peter sooner in my life. You see it would have been helpful to me early on. You see I grew up in church, but quickly found it to be irrelevant to my life. I didn’t see how Jesus made a difference in…

Intro We are studying 1 Peter. I do believe that this letter from Peter was written to give the recipients encouragement for how to live in this world. How the Gospel is for REAL life. God does not intend our Christianity, our relationship with Him to be disassociated from REAL life and irrelevant outside…

Intro One of the joys of preaching through books of the Bible is that you get to teach and preach on topics which you would otherwise never preach on. You get to preach and learn from the breath and expanse of the entire Word of God. Today is one of those days. We have been talking a lot about living…

Suffering will be part of everyone's life. It is good to know that God does not have it out for you. God has an ultimate plan for those who are in Christ. And even those not in Christ, He desires they look to Him ultimately and be saved.

Suffering Servants: Pleasing God, Following Christ (Part 1) - 1 Peter 2:18-25 Intro: Try to imagine your life in the following scenario. Day in and day out, you live and work as a household slave in the home of a prominent businessman in Troas. Of your 20 closest friends and relatives, every one of them…

God's plan for our eternity is to become Priests and Kings, but for us to recieve our inheritance we must turn from evil and seek to do good.

ATTENTION All of us might say that buying a Hummer on faith is a bad idea, if you’re expecting God to cover your bad decision. But we do tend to take the scriptures out of context when it suits us, don’t we? For instance have you ever heard anyone make this claim? (DVD by His stripes we are healed) That’s…

Does God offer us a smorgasbord when it comes to religion, or does He offer something else? What happens when we treat religion like a smorgasbord? How did Jesus treat God's commandments?

Suffering 1 Peter 2:21-24 Sermon Preached in Leicester Church on 3-13-05 and in Southbridge on 3-20-05 Revised on 4-2-06 Preached in South Road on 4-2-06 Suffering 1 Peter 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.22 "He committed…

God has given specefic satements on the institution of marriage, how does this passage add to that equation? Pastor Cooper explains the importance of this passage in terms of evangelism and the role of women in canonical and cultural context.

Intro 1 Peter is about living hope. Not only is living hope to be celebrated (1 Pet. 1:1-12) and lived out (1 Pet. 1:13-2:3), it needs to be carried to others, like an ambassador representing and carrying the identity, ideals and principles of his country (1 Pet. 2:4-3:12). What does it mean to carry…