Sermons on 1 San Pedro 1:5:

Jesus Is The Answer To Our Collateral Damage

Contributed by Rick Gillespie- Mobley on May 21, 2020

We will all endure collateral damage in our lives. Will it draw us closer to God? Our sin made Jesus collateral damage.

Jesus Is The Answer To Our Collateral Damage May 24, 2020 Job 1:1-12 1 Peter 1:1-9 Imagine being at war for a moment. Your squad’s mission is to infiltrate a city and locate a building, because it is being used to manufacture weapons for the enemy. You locate the building and call in for an ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:1-22, Job 2:1-13, 1 Peter 1:1-9

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Obtaining A Living Hope

Contributed by Dennis Lee on May 31, 2020

Today's Message looks at the living hope we have through the belief in Jesus Christ, and through our own resurrection from the dead and into His presence for all eternity in heaven.

“Obtaining A Living Hope” {Watch it at: https://youtu.be/CW4cwFu-lsc {Listen to it at: https://mega.nz/file/2YlChIZS#IaxGnMpzVVeollU-_Ayz3ugQSBgLfVGCP5_x3--bS7k I liked to introduce a very unusual verse. It was a statement made that very few people would have ever made given the circumstances ...read more

Scripture: Job 1:21, Job 19:26, John 6:39-40, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, John 11:25-26, 1 Peter 1:3-5  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Foursquare

Always Trying, Never Sure

Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 18, 2020

Look at this phrase, “protected by the power of God through faith” (1 Peter 1:5) (Material adapted from Dr. Jack Cottrell's book, "Set Free")

HoHum: Sometimes when we are in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed tickets read magazines, chat with friends, or just sleep. The ones on standby hang around the ticket counter, pace and fret, fret ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:5, Romans 5:1-11, Romans 8:1, Luke 15:28-30

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

1 Peter Commentary —chapter 1 Series

Contributed by John Lowe on May 18, 2021

Peter’s first epistle is addressed to Gentile believers among the dispersed (the scattered) of Israel. They have been released from the futile way of life they learned from their ancestors (1:18). Those who were at one time, not a people, had become nothing less than the people of God (2:10).

Tom Lowe 4/2/2021 Text: 1 Peter, Chapter 1 (KJV) 1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-25

Denomination: Baptist

The Elegant And Meaningful Message Of The Book

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Jun 1, 2021

There is so much noise surrounding the Bible. There is so much rhetoric. There is so much bias. There are so many skeptics, with so many things to say. But when you actually open up the Bible and read it, wow. Just wow.

1 Peter 1:3-9 (NIV) 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven ...read more

Scripture: John 20:29, 1 Peter 1:3-9

Denomination: Salvation Army

Never Lost Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021

Our faith lives in a hostile world. When navigating the road of life, God’s power directs your road safely to Him.

Warren Buffett is 77 and is considered strong and healthy even at this advance age. He filed his first tax return at age 13, claiming a $35 deduction for bicycle. His net worth is valued at over $62 billion and in the summer of 2006, he donated $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-7

Denomination: Baptist

No Really, You're Never Lost Series

Contributed by Scott Maze on Jun 4, 2021

Can God keep me from losing my faith?

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he was president of Princeton University. One day he had to endure a one hour-long interrogation by an anxious mother who wanted to be sure that Princeton was the best place to send her son. He patiently tried to answer every one of her ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-7

Denomination: Baptist

A Living Hope

Contributed by Don Baggett on Jan 24, 2020

Regardless of troubles, we have much cause to rejoice. The Lord is going to be with us until we die, then we will move in the house with Him. This old world is not heaven, but there is a heaven, and if we are saved, we are as sure for heaven as if we were already there.

The book of 1 Peter was written around 64 a.d., when a man by the name of Nero become Emperor in Rome, and Rome pretty much ruled the civilized world. There are two things about Nero that stand out: He was crazy (there’s a better medical name for his condition, but his thinking was totally ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-5

Denomination: Baptist

Encouraged To Endure Sermon I: Encouraged By A Hope That Is Sure Series

Contributed by Charles Cunningham on Feb 7, 2020

Going through difficult times causes anxiety and uncertainty, even among devoted Christians, but God our Father has provided for our survival and encourages us to endure by the certainty of a hope that is sure.

Encouraged to Endure by a Hope That Is Sure “Encouraged to Endure by a Hope That Is Sure” is a fitting motto for those of you who, like me, have joined the Four Score Overtime Club. It is also a motto apropos to the 1st ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9

Asking For Your Inheritance

Contributed by Reuben Bredenhof on Mar 16, 2021

Our greatest treasure, the inheritance that we seek, isn’t down here: not in the stuff, not in the people, not in the honours. But seek God. Desire Him. Long for the one inheritance that is incorruptible, that is undefiled, and that does not fade away.

They say that children should never talk about their inheritance. Sure, one day Mom and Dad might leave something to the kids. But until that day, children shouldn’t worry about what they’ll receive, or daydream about how to spend it. We know what happened to the Prodigal Son, when he started ...read more

Scripture: Numbers 27:1-11, 1 Peter 1:1-9, Joshua 17:3-4

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

"the Holy Nature Of God"

Contributed by Andy Grossman on Aug 11, 2019

God is Holy. All He does must be viewed from that perspective.

“The Nature of God” August 11, 2019 1 Peter 1:3-9; 13-16 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9, 1 Peter 1:13-16, Leviticus 11:44

Denomination: Holiness

William Booth's Mount Purity: The Six Stages Of The Climb

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 26, 2021

According to astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, there are 122 constants that allow for life to exist on planet Earth. And if even one of these constants were adjusted, there would be no life on Earth.

According to astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, there are 122 constants that allow for life to exist on planet Earth. And if even one of these constants were adjusted, there would be no life on Earth. Let’s look at a few of those constants. First, oxygen. 21% of our atmosphere is oxygen. If it were 25% ...read more

Scripture: John 11:25-26, 1 Peter 1:3-9, 1 Peter 1:13-16, Hebrews 10:14, Revelation 4:8  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Salvation Army

How To Obey Christ & Have Assurance On The Day Of Judgment

Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Apr 26, 2021

"As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Saskatchewan back country.

"As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Saskatchewan back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9, John 14:15, 1 John 5:3, 1 John 5:1-5, 1 Peter 1:13-21  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Salvation Army

The Living Hope Series

Contributed by D Marion Clark on Jul 27, 2012

Explores Peter's doxology regarding the salvation we have in Christ.

In the first chapter, I noted that the New Testament epistles follow the basic form of letter writing of that day. There is nothing significant about the form. What is significant is how the NT writers make use of the form to express their Christian content. What is the form? There are ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Pruebas De Fe

Contributed by Josue Martinez on Jun 25, 2013

El que tiene firmemente plantada su fe en Jesucristo, tiene la bendición más grande que un ser humano puede tener, es justificado de todos sus pecados y tiene acceso al trono de gracia pero... hay puebas de fe... no nos de miedo ni sorpresa

PRUEBAS DE FE 1 Ped. 1:1-7 Si alguien tiene fe en Cristo es debido a la obra del Espíritu Santo, es una señal de ser elegido para salvación, y la fe es la señal de vida espiritual de parte de Dios, y es la fuente para santificación. Esta fe tiene un destino: que alcancemos la Gloria ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-7

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed