The paradigm for outreach | Even after quitting my engineering job to step into ministry, I still find myself thinking in engineering ways. That thinking interacted with 1 Peter 3:14-17 to create the following flowchart from the message. Listen in … Read More
Whose side are you on? This was an unusual message. Peter quotes a bit of Psalm 34, which is the bulk of the passage. However to understand the Psalm, you need to go back and see what was happening to … Read More
Husbands & Wives Peter continues his direct instructions with instructions to husbands and wives, then moves on to household servants and paints Jesus’ model of dealing with injustice. Listen in and decide for yourself what Peter is really asking of … Read More
Honor everyone This is a powerful passage and a timely instruction for believers. In the midst of governmental oppression from Rome, Peter asks the believers to honor the king, and his delegated authorities. While we enjoy freedom in the US … Read More
We don’t use the word holy outside of religious contexts, so its meaning is obscure. It literally means “set apart” or “pure”, and is used both of God and of people who have believed the gospel. Listen in this week … Read More
This week we are looking at the trees for the forest– looking at a longer section of Peter’s praise to God four our salvation, from a lens of the future, the present, and the past. The video from this week: … Read More
We are kicking off 2020 with a new series studying 1st Peter. It is a letter that Peter original wrote to Jewish believers scattered in what is modern day Turkey roughly 30 years after Jesus’ resurrection. Human wisdom would suggest … Read More