1 Peter
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1 Peter 5:10-12 – Peter’s Theme Repeated
Perhaps there have been statements that your parents made to you as you were growing up. Perhaps some of these things they repeated so often that you if you think…
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1 Peter 5:5-9 – Humbly Admitting Our Need for Humility
As Peter broaches the subject of humility I think it is instructive for us to listen to some of the buzzwords of our culture that we may ourselves picked up,…
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1 Peter 5:1-4 – The Pastor’s Exhortation
Because of the length of this message today, I want to forgo any kind of formal introduction except to say that this message is not my typical exegetical format. It…
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1 Peter 4:12-19 – Help for the Suffering Believer (Part 2)
Sir Walter Scott, famous inspector of Scotland Yard said, “There is a simplicity on this side of complexity for which I wouldn’t give a wit. But there is a simplicity…
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1 Peter 4:12-19 – Help for the Suffering Believer (Part 1)
In his book, “An Anthropologist on Mars,” neurologist Oliver Sacks tells about Virgil, a man who had been blind from early childhood. When he was 50, Virgil underwent surgery and…
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1 Peter 4:7-11 – Our Christian Business (Part 2)
If you could imagine yourself on a nuclear submarine under the ice cap of the North Pole. There is no place to go but down. You are in the reactor…
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1 Peter 4:7-11 – Our Christian Business (Part 1)
The doctor tells you that today is your last day alive on earth. “Tonight, at midnight you will die of a rare disease that though no treatment is available we…
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1 Peter 4:1-6 – Our Purpose in the Gospel
Fires in the coal rich mines under Centralia, Pennsylvania, finally forced the residents to consider relocating to another area. Some could not force themselves to make the break with their…
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1 Peter 3:13-17 – Adjusting Our Focus
Have you ever taken a picture with a camera that has an auto focus feature? Perhaps you’ve seen a picture where a branch or some other close object was in…
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1 Peter 3:8-12 – The Key to Really Living
Many years ago I heard Tony Campolo tell about a certain rich man in Texas. He was so rich that he was buried in his Cadillac, dressed in his best…