Speaker: Duncan Sills | September 30, 2018
How to endure trials well – 1 Peter 1:3-12
Peter praises God at the start of his letter, but as he does so he teaches us how to endure trials well, encouraging us to remember what...
At the start of 1 Peter, Peter calls his readers and us “Elect Exiles” or in the NASB “Those residing as aliens, chosen by God”. When we become Christians, we are adopted into the family of God and heaven becomes our home. At the same time, we suddenly become strangers in the world. Our identity in God can sometimes make us feel like aliens, even in our home town.
This sermon series going through the book of 1 Peter, looks at what it means to live as a Chosen Alien, as a Christian, in the midst of a secular world.
Speaker: Duncan Sills | October 14, 2018
How to live holy lives – 1 Peter 1:13-25
In 1 Peter 1:13-15, Peter speaks of a holy God who has called his people to live holy lives. Duncan Sills preaches from this passage on how...
Speaker: Duncan Sills | October 21, 2018
The Living Stone (Part 1) – 1 Peter 2:1-5
In 1 Peter 2, Peter continues to call his readers to holy lives and uses a series of Old Testament metaphors to describe Christ and Christians. What...
Speaker: Duncan Sills | October 29, 2018
The Living Stone (Part 2) – 1 Peter 2:6-12
Continuing from part 1 here. How you respond to Christ, the living stone, the cornerstone, matters. If you believe on him for salvation, you receive honour, a...
Speaker: Duncan Sills | November 04, 2018
Submission to Authority – 1 Peter 2:13 – 3:7
Jesus Christ, God the Son, showed amazing humility in being born on Earth in human flesh. He showed even greater humility in submitting to the authority of...
Speaker: Duncan Sills | November 11, 2018
Suffering for Doing Good – 1 Peter 3:8 – 4:7
Peter wants us to live holy lives, even if there’s the threat of suffering for those who do so. He desires that if we do suffer, we...
Speaker: Tim Blaber | November 26, 2018
The Joy, Glory & Witness in Suffering – 1 Peter 4 12-19
Peter continues speaking on the theme of suffering at the end of 1 Peter 4, calling us to rejoice in suffering, to know the Spirit of glory...
An identity wrapped up in all three persons of the Trinity
To be a Christian, to be a chosen alien, is to be chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sancitification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ & to be sprinkled with his blood. Our identity as Christians is wrapped up in all three persons of the Godhead, the glorious Trinity!