Political division is at a fever pitch, of course, in the United States. The divisions are deeper than ever and the rhetoric is more rabid. And paths forward, what happens next is more uncertain than it’s ever been. Yet in these hostile times there [...]

LIVING HOPE IN A HOSTILE WORLD. That’s because we are born again according to Peter unto a living hope because of the resurrection of Jesus. In my book The Jesus Book I have a chapter on the Bible and world view, because what this really is, is a [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of 1 Peter. And the title of this message is «Jesus Paid It All». The last time we were together in 1 Peter, we read the scripture which says, «Be holy», God says, «Be holy, for I am holy». Now, how is [...]

Take God’s Word, the Jesus Book, and turn to 1 Peter, chapter 1. We are living in a hopeless world and that is because the world is without hope because the world is without God. And increasingly godless and therefore, increasingly hopeless. So [...]

The title of this message is «Loving the Unseen Lord». Peter begins his letter with a doxology of praise and that exaltation of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and the celebration of our amazing salvation in Christ, that we have [...]

The title of this message from 1 Peter chapter 1, and you can begin finding God’s Word, 1 Peter chapter 1, «Facing the Future with Courageous Joy». And Peter was preparing the congregations of the first century as well as all of us today to face the [...]

Take your Bibles and turn with me to 1 Peter chapter 1. This is our brand-new series from the letter of 1 Peter, and the theme is LIVING HOPE IN A HOSTILE WORLD. And I’m so glad that you have joined us today and that includes all of you who are [...]

God has given us a message of hope and we’re calling this message series LIVING HOPE, because it shows up right in the first sentences of 1 Peter chapter 1, that we have this living hope in Jesus Christ in the midst of a hostile world; filled with [...]