SBC Host:What would you do if you knew Christ was returning today?
Avg Guy:Clean the house?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study through 1 Peter in which we’re reminded that “the end of all things is near.”
But our response shouldn’t be to put on a pretty face.
Instead, we should do what we’ve always been called to do: to pray, to love, to be hospitable, to serve with the gifts given us.
… recognizing that these seemingly routine tasks — when coupled with His imminent return — infuse us with a heightened anticipation that enables us as Christians to live lives filled with great purpose and intentionality, allowing us to not only participate in God’s redemptive work, but — above all else — to bring Him glory.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which see that though we must be prepared to suffer for following Christ…
…our hope is in our sovereign Lord and Savior who will make all things right.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter and shows us how Christ’s suffering unites us with His victory.
Having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit… Christ died — the Just for the unjust — for sins, once for all.… so that He might bring us to the One in heaven whose right hand He sits:GOD.
Always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you…. For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
1 Peter 15b, 17
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which we learn that it is when we, the believer, face the strongest opposition, we are most often used of God.
For when we endure suffering — while maintaining good works and sharing Christ — we are able to demonstrate, for all to see, the HOPE we have within.
Apostle Peter (writing):To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit….
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which he reveals the apostle’s summary to the believer.
Apostle Peter (writing):…not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.
For as those who will inherit eternal life, believers — indeed — receive God’s blessing, AND, likewise, as they pursue righteousness, are called to bless others.
Though the pendulum of cultural ideas may swing, God’s word and will do not.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter and addresses a passage that, throughout the ages, has been the subject of much cultural pushback and controversy: the ideal, definition, and purpose of MARRIAGE.
And though the culture may shift back and forth in ideas to suit… this passage unwaveringly lays out the fulfillment of God’s UNCHANGING design for marriage:
He was pierced through our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
— Isaiah 53:5
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in 1 Peter, in which we come across a passage that Peter masterfully weaves the rich descriptions of Christ as The Suffering Servant, we see in Isaiah 53, into his epistle and expands upon it into application as to how we ought to live.
For Christ’s righteous suffering for our sin is the pattern and power for our own righteous response, when we suffer… as we look to trace our lives over the life of Christ.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow returns to our study in the book of 1 Peter in which we learn that because God has liberated us from the power of sin, we, therefore, honor Him by submitting to proper authority.
Because the only true motivation for respect of authority are His compassionate chains of grace.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter and shows us that as God’s people we must abstain from sin and pursue righteousness.
For it is only by standing apart because we stand out, that we gain a hearing… so that others may see our changed life and trust Christ themselves.
The critical foundational stone that sets the course for the rest of a building.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter and shows us that God is constructing a Spiritual House in which we, as believers, are its building blocks — “living stones” — in service to Him.
And the cornerstone of this house is *THE* Living Stone — the One chosen and valued by God, but rejected by man — Jesus Christ.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which he shows us how Peter expands upon his call to Christian love by displacing the strife-filled, relational sins of the worldby tasting the kindness of the Lord — longing for the pure milk of the Word of God.
To love like Christ loves.It’s the identity marker of the church.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which we learn that we are commanded to love others.
But it’s not always easy to love others — especially with the self-sacrificing love of Christ.
That’s because you can’t… unless, and until, you are reborn — reborn with a purified heart, through the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow shows us that THIS is what Peter exhorts to his readers in our study of 1 Peter this week.
“Do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior.”
For with our eyes set on eternity, we are to imitate God’s holiness in consideration of His plan for our salvation.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues our study in the book of 1 Peter and talks about the “privilege” we are all afforded when we follow the cross.
For as believers we possess a privilege that far exceeds wealth, opportunity, and even safety… so much so, that it motivates us to level of thankful obedience.
That privilege: having the “full picture” of the saving work of Jesus Christ.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter and shows us how for the recipients of this letter, persecution and suffering was a daily experience.
And yet, Peter commended them to rejoice through it all.
For it is through trails that we prove a genuine and active faith that culminates in final salvation.
…The sole possession of those who have trusted in Christ.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which we see the apostle begin his letter with an encouragement to praise God for the amazing salvation we have in Christ — a living hope brought about by Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
For because of His mercy we have a reservation in heaven, guarded by God, to obtain an inheritance — an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and that (as it says in the King James) fadeth not away.
Today, Christmas Morning, on the Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow presents us the gift of new a study in the book of 1 Peter — a book that encourages and equips the suffering, exiled Christian.
For in just the first two verses, not only does Peter’s salutation greet — but remind.
It reminds us of just who we are — through a complex set of mighty designations involving God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son, Jesus Christ… Who’d make His entry into this world — helpless, naked, and lying in a manger.
I could not have begun to love thee hadst thou not
first loved me,
or been willing unless thou hadst first made me so.
O that such a crown should fit the head of
such a sinner!
…And so goes —but a stanza of— a rich, Truth-soaked Puritan Prayer.*
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, in his first official sermon as pastor, Josh Peglow takes to the pulpit to illuminate a marvelous hope — a marvelous truth — we find in scripture.
It’s a truth and hope that shows us that God is to be blessed for His work in bringing about an unassailable salvation to His heavenly people.
And the Puritan Prayer? Well, it encapsulates this reality beautifully:
Description: On this first day of the first month of the New Year we examine if we have indeed put on the new self who is being renewed daily by the One who created him.
Description: We come to the end of our study of 1 Peter. The Apostle leaves us with exhortations, greetings from fellow believers and a blessing of peace.
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