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How do you know if someone is a “good” person? How do you know whether you are good person? By what do we measure our goodness? How does our culture define “good”? By what standard does our culture have to measure “goodness”? We live in a world and in a culture that tells us that if we do good things,…

Welcome to our series on the book of 1 Peter, titled Living Hope: How to Endure Suffering and Rejoice in Salvation. In this series, we are exploring the main themes and messages of this letter, written by the apostle Peter to Christians who were facing persecution and suffering for their faith. We are…

holy habits that help us love God and our neighbor, listen to the Holy Spirit, and become more like Jesus

Good morning! If we haven’t met before my name is Chris, I’m the pastor of Gateway Chapel, the lovely church family that gathers here in this building. We are a church that encourages each other as we hear, love, and obey Jesus together. If you want to learn more about following Jesus with us, feel free…

Over the past several months we have taken an in depth look at some of the most important foundations of our faith. Today is the last part that every believer must come to understand when it come to our faith and a growing relationship with Christ. I am talking about obedience. Obedience is what the…

Walking in Love Eph. 5:1-2 Intro: In 1878, William Gladstone presented himself before Parliament to announce the death of Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Alice of Britain, the Grand Duchess of Hesse. In making the announcement, Gladstone told a touching story. The Duchess had seven children, six of…

Intro Have you ever built a sand castle? If you have built a sand castle on a beach, you know that you have to be strategic in where you build it. Build it too close to water and the tide may wash it away. Build it too far away and the sand is too dry to build with. It is helpful to have tools to build…

Wesley on Holiness: *** JW Slide 1 Peter 1:13–15 (NRSV) Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. Instead,…

We are the elect Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Peter’s intro is a little confusing the elect the Dispersion The audience is easy: Northern Turkey Date is probably just before Nero’s persecution according…

Galatians 1:6-10 As we look at the topic of Eternal Security we are going to spend the majority of our time looking at the truth according to the Word of God. However, there is something to be said about answering the concerned questions of those who oppose Eternal Security. Along the way we will look…

Leaven is a biblical illustration of permeation, influence. John F. MacArthur The whole idea of our spiritual conversion and our walk with God is to separate ourselves from sin.....To be holy as God is holy To be as unleavened rather than leavened…or to live in purity without hypocrisy or doublemindedness.…

1 Peter 1 Good morning church! 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ:…

1 Peter is the first letter that we have from the Apostle Peter in the New Testament. The overall theme of the book is that believers should follow Christ’s example by joyfully enduring persecution. 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace…

Scot McKnight says, “Theology prompts ethics. That is, beliefs about God and experiences with God undergird beliefs about what is right and wrong.” “Theology prompts ethics.” What we do follows what we believe, or at least that’s how it should work. I realize that doesn’t always happen; it doesn’t always…

Kids are going back to school. Some are looking forward to it some are not. If FB is right, most if not all parents are looking forward to it. I always liked school, because it meant football season was here and I got to see all of my friends. But not everyone likes for school to start. One guy said…

If we allow things in our lives that put us in bondage and glorify not God. we are dishonoring God and the temple of God. the spirit of God will not dwell in a temple that is unholy or defiled 13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be…

When I was in high school, we lived on two acres in the middle of the woods in Northern Indiana. Now, I say “woods” very loosely. It is true that the land around us was wooded. However, across the street was a swamp. So, we didn’t go there. And the majority of our two acres was what we termed a “waste…

Intro Have you ever been exiled? Maybe you were exiled from a classroom for misbehaving? (I have) Maybe you were at odds with your spouse and you were exiled to the couch? Perhaps you were exiled by people at work, they excluded you from a group of colleagues? Perhaps you were exiled from society and…

Introduction A Clean Heart devotionals are available. Read passage: 1 Peter 1:13-25 (ESV) Biblical: Peter makes a remarkable claim: Our identity as born again children of God is the basis and foundation for ethics and morality. “Therefore” (v. 13)… “As obedient children” (v. 14)… “as he who called you…

(S1) — SERIES — Scripture — Salvation When I met Jesus — Mountain — Life change — Questions (S2) — Am I a really a Christian? The Apostle Paul had been confronted with similar questions after his conversion... “I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead,…

16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled,…

Welcome... Introduce self... Pray... Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

1 Peter 1:13-16 In the classic Italian children’s story of Pinocchio, Geppetto creates a wooden marionette puppet that becomes his son. When he sends Pinocchio to school, the puppet goes on a quest to become a real boy but faces unexpected challenges. He is robbed by a fox and cat, nearly burnt for firewood…

Intro: In Philippians 2:12 , The Apostle Paul encourages us to… “ ...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ;” This does not mean that we are to “work for our salvation”… Because we cannot earn it… It is a free gift. But to work out our salvation is referring to our responsibility, as believers,…