Sermons on 1 Peter
Palm Sunday / Confirmation – 2025
YOU ARE AMONG HIS UNIVERSAL PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:4-10. Coming to Him as to a living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on…
Easter 3- Good Shepherd Sunday 2024
Sermon: St. Mark 14:27-28; 1 Peter 5:1-5 A FAITHFUL SHEPHERD’S LEADING 1 Peter 5:1-5. The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but…
Christmas Day -2023
There was no livestream for this service. (Preaching on a Mark series that parallels the Historic Lectionary texts, the Christmas sermons utilize 1 Peter, since there is no Christmas story in Mark and Mark’s gospel was telling what Peter was remembering as eyewitness.) THE WORD MADE FLESH TO REDEEM US Sermon Text, St. John 1:12-14; 1 Peter 1:18-23. Dear people loved by God in Christ: St. John tells us that Jesus Christ is the “Word.” He tells us that this…
Christmas Eve 2023
JOY INEXPRESSIBLE AND FULL OF GLORY Sermon Text, St. Luke 2:8-20; 1 Peter 1:8-12. 10 And the angel said unto them, “Fear not! For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” 8 Whom, having not seen, you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible…