Serving: What Christ Wants For You
Key Idea: Joyful serving is rooted in a relationship with Jesus Four ways to pursue joyful serving in Christ Consider your heart Consider the goodness of Christ Consider your family Consider the gospel
Loving Others By Loving Christ (1 Peter 1:22-2:3)
Key Idea: We love others faithfully by first allowing the Word to encourage our love for Christ.
Holding Fast to Hope (1 Peter 1:13-21)
Living Out Our Adoption (Romans 8:15)
Key Idea: If we want to live lives of mercy, we must not live our lives as orphans. Our adoption means we don’t have to hoard. Our adoption means we don’t have to live in fear. Our adoption means we don’t have to worry about tomorrow.
Our Privileged Salvation (1 Peter 1:10-12)
A thoughtfully written salvation A costly salvation A salvation which you heard A salvation which you enjoy
Trials, Refined Faith, and Inexpressible Joy (1 Peter 1:6-9)
Key Idea: Trials are God doing what is necessary to pursue what is precious. God will do what is necessary to pursue what is precious. The precious that God wants for us is refined faith. Refined faith leads to inexpressible joy. Joy in knowing and experience the object of your love (v. 8) Joy in […]
Lost and Found (Luke 15:1-7) // Baptism Sunday
Outreach Month 2022
Living Hope (1 Peter 1:3-5)
Key Idea: Three realities of God’s care to fuel our living hope: His great mercy establishes our hope (v. 3) His future grace directs our hope (v. 4) The ministry of hope for the Christian: not optimism- minimizing the bad to focusing on the good or potential good not stoicism- enduring suffering without displaying pain […]
Elect Exiles (1 Peter 1:1-2)
Key idea: Understanding our divine identity enables us to endure everything in life, including suffering 1. The Comfort of Our Divine Identity a. Exile b. Elect 2. The Cause of Our Divine Identity a. The Father: a caring relationship b. The Spirit: a consecrated relationship c. The Son: a covenant relationship 3. The Chorus of […]