These verses, like last week's, are difficult to understand. But when we dig into the context, the meaning becomes more clear. The context is suffering and that it is not…
Verses 18-22 of 1 Peter chapter 3 have a couple of difficult and challenging statements to understand. Verse 19 talks about Jesus preaching to the spirits in prison and verse…
Having given specific commands to different groups of people within the church, now Peter concludes by stating that every Christian, every "elect exile," is called to serve and bless others.…
After commanding wives in the previous verses, now Peter turns to husbands and commands them to love their wives. Literally, the command is to live with your wife in an…
This is a passage that is difficult for our 21st Century ears to hear. The interesting thing is that while this passage fits in with the larger picture of what…
Following the command for us to be in submission to our human government, Peter turns his attention to servants. This is a challenging passage, but the heart of it is…
In these few verses, St. Peter distills the whole message of Isaiah 53, that the Messiah would suffer in our place and for our sins. Peter says four things about…
These two verses bring to a close the opening part of Peter’s letter. The focus from 1:3-2:10 is all on our identity in Christ as those who have been born…
There are many different metaphors that the Bible uses to describe Jesus. In this passage, Peter says that Jesus is a living stone (jewell), that is chosen and precious, and…
Having just been told that the gospel is the means that we have been born again to love another, Peter commands us to keep "yearning" for the gospel. This is…
Peter was with Jesus at His Last Supper when Jesus gave a New Commandment, "that as I have loved you, you love one another." Now Peter repeats Jesus' command for…
Building on the call to be holy as our Father is holy, Peter commands us to live in reverence to the Father. Why? He is the judge and we will…
In verse 13 of chapter one, the Apostle Peter begins to shift from our identity in Christ to how we should live. Building on everything that God has done for…
Suffering is part of life, and even more so the Christian life. But when we suffer we can lose heart. How can we stand firm? Knowing and believing that God…
We are called to praise God for who He is and what He has done. Peter starts his letter with praising God for being the Father of our Lord Jesus…
Our Bishop Ken Ross was with us this past weekend and preached from the Epistle Lesson of 1 Corinthians 13, commonly called "the Love chapter." As we head into Lent,…
The parable of the sower is a familiar one. The sower sows seed into 4 different types of soil. Only one produces fruit...and that 100-fold. I only focused on these…
In one of His well known parables, Jesus says there are only two types of people: the righteous and the unrighteous. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference,…
In our fourth and final sermon in this series on the Bible and why we are Protestant, we delve into the question of authority. As Protestants in the Anglican tradition,…
Building upon last week's sermon on the Bible is how God tells us who He is, in which we covered Revelation and Inspiration, today we covered this fact, that the…