Sermons on Persecution
Christmas Is For Suffering (1 Peter 3:13-4:6)
For those who are in Christ, according to the great mercy of God, you have been born again into a living hope, awaiting a glorious inheritance with your Father and brother and Savior. So live righteously like such things are true. Because your righteous life is not only appropriate for your salvation, but it’s appropriate to gain salvation for those who hate you. Living…
Ambassadors in Exile (1 Peter 1:1-2)
God’s people often find themselves on the outside of pagan and antagonistic cultures. How do Christians and the church respond? Some fight back in anger and fear. Other attempts to change culture through political clout. Others withdraw from society. And others assimilate into society and lose their peculiar distinction as Christians. In 1 Peter, the apostle calls…
