September 29, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/29/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Key Text: Lamentations 3:19-24
Description:
The suffering, intense.
The pain and sorrow, all-consuming.
The struggle, real.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow turns to the book of Lamentations as our congregation continues to struggle in this very real way.
In our passage we read how the author also faced intense suffering and all-consuming pain and sorrow.
But then, something remarkable happens — he chooses to remember.
He remembers that — even in the worst of times — God’s steadfast love never ceases, for His mercies are new every morning. And it is through this recollection that the author finds the hope that transcends even the deepest despair.
…Which ultimately is the reminder we need:
Hope is not something we wait for, but something we remember.
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September 1, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 09/01/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 5:6-14
Description:
[For] I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God.
Stand firm in it!
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow concludes our study in 1 Peter as Peter concludes his letter with a powerful exhortation to humility, trust in God, vigilance against the devil, and perseverance in suffering.
[For] the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
To Him be dominion forever and ever.
Amen.
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July 28, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/28/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 5:1-5
Description:
Humility.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which we learn that humility is the key which church leaders are to ground themselves…
…if they are to faithfully shepherd the church as God intends.
Likewise, that same key applies to the “sheep” that follow.
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July 14, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/14/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 4:12-19
Description:
For doing evil… or for doing good:
Two different reasons one can suffer.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow continues with our study in the book of 1 Peter in which believers are urged to ensure that their suffering is a result of their Christian witness rather than wrongdoing.
Peter addresses the reality of suffering for being a Christian and encourages us not to be surprised by the fiery trials we may face.
Such suffering is cause for rejoicing, for it is a participation in the suffering of Christ… which means on the day in which it is revealed, we will also share in His glory.
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- Expect trials and Rejoice in Them (12-13)
- Suffer for the Right Reasons (14-16)
- Suffer Expectantly (17-18)
- Trusting Our Faithful God’s Good Will (19)
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May 12, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 05/12/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 4:7-11
Description:
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.
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March 17, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 03/17/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 4:1-6
Description:
Are you armed to suffer for Christ?
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.
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February 18, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 02/18/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 3:18-24
Description:
VINDICATED and VICTORIOUS.
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.
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Putting the differing theological theories to the test:
- Where did Jesus go?
- When did Jesus go?
- What did He do there?
- Who was His audience?
- How well does this fit with Peter’s overall message of Christ’s suffering, victory, and vindication in chapter3, verses 18-22?
“When you have eliminated all that which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
— Sherlock Holmes
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January 21, 2024
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/21/2024
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 3:13-17
Description:
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.
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December 10, 2023
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/10/2023
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 3:8-12
Description:
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.
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December 3, 2023
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/03/2023
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Series: 1 Peter
Key Text: 1 Peter 3:1-7
Description:
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:
√ A wife that submits to her husband
AND…
√ A husband that honors his wife
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December 11, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/11/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Key Text: James 3:13-18
Description:
SBC Host: Just what is WISDOM exactly?
Avg Guy: Well, according to Wikipedia, WIDSOM (also know as sapience or sagacity) is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight.
SBC Host: Fair enough. But there’s something very important that your definition is missing.
Avg Guy: Oh??
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow takes to the pulpit to uncover the “challenge test” that James puts forth onto wisdom.
Because while wisdom IS “the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight” …it’s where that ability COMES FROM that matters.
For wisdom can either come from above (being pure, peaceable, and gentle) or from below (full of bitter jealousy, arrogance, and selfish ambition).
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October 30, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 10/30/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Key Text:1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
Description:
In order for God’s Church to function as He intends, we have to CARE.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow brings us a message from Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians exhorting the congregation to CARE about each other’s walk with God.
Paul wasn’t addressing the unruly, fainthearted, or weak…
…but addressing those who were in position to help those people — to notice, come alongside, invest in, and care for those very people around them that were struggling — giving wisdom from above.
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- SEEK the Struggling (14)
- ENCOURAGE Forgiveness (15a)
- PURSUE the Good of Others (15b)
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August 28, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 08/28/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Key Text: Psalm 27
Description:
Though a host encamp against me,
My heart will not fear;
Though war arise against me… I shall be confident.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow takes the pulpit to share a Psalm, a prayer, a very raw and vulnerable cry to God from King David. And while this psalm demonstrates fearless trust, courageous confidence, and unwavering faith… it also shows us something else: David is scared.
“Please don’t leave me Lord.”
It’s hard to imagine someone of his stature feeling this way… and yet, he does. And by God’s grace it is recorded for us as an example to pattern and learn from — an encouraging imperative.
For as David concludes:
I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord,
In the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for the Lord.
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- CONFIDENCE in Trials (1-3)
- CONVICTION in Trials (4-6)
- PRAYER in Trials (7-12)
- PATIENCE in Trials (13-14)
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July 17, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 07/17/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor
Key Text: 1 Peter 1:3-5
Description:
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:
Let thy love draw me nearer to thyself,
wean me from sin, mortify me to this world,
and make me ready for my departure hence.
Secure me by thy grace as I sail across this
stormy sea.
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- ORIGIN of our Hope (3)
- PERMANENCE of our Hope (4)
- REALIZATION of our Hope (5)
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June 12, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 06/12/2022
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Hebrews
Key Text: Hebrews 13:7, 17
Description:
To be a pastor is, indeed, a high calling.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Hebrews and shows us how the Bible clearly lays out the duties and responsibilities of a pastor to his flock, along with the duties and responsibilities of the congregation to their pastor.
This morning Scandia Bible Church has the honor of ordaining Joshua Peglow to the office of pastor.
In light of this historic ordination for our church, today’s sermon serves as a charge: both pastorally and congregationaly… instructing all in the meeting of their duties before Christ.
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March 27, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 03/27/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, guest preacher
Key Text: Jeremiah 17:5-8
Description:
Thus says the Lord,
Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the Lord.
For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant. [Jeremiah 17:5-6]
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Josh Peglow returns to our pulpit and opens the book of Jeremiah… a book that addresses a point we all struggle with: putting our trust in man versus God.
Why?
Because Jeremiah struggled with it too.
For Jeremiah exhorts that the Lord says:
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord
And whose trust is the Lord.
For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit. [Jeremiah 17:7-8]
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- MISPLACED Trust (5-6)
- Trust in Almighty GOD (7-8)
- provides life
- provides protection
- makes fruitful
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February 13, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 02/13/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, guest preacher
Key Text: Ephesians 5:7-14
Description:
Like one beggar showing another where to find bread, that is who we are as Christians.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, brother in Christ Josh Peglow fills in at the pulpit to preach on our call to be Ambassadors of the Light.
We’re not here to shame others for their wrongdoings — our list is just as long.
But rather, we are called, in the way we act and the words we speak — though we may stumble (and even more so because we do) — to show others, as an act of love, the Bread that sustains and saves us.
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- REFLECTING who we are in CHRIST (7-8)
- our PAST identity
- our identity NOW
- a POSITIVE response (9-10)
- FOLLOWING the Truth
- APPLYING the Truth
- a NEGATIVE response (11-12)
- Avoid EVIL
- EXPOSE its Severity to Unbelievers
- The Testimony of Christ in the CHILDREN OF LIGHT (13-14)
- making All Things VISIBLE
- AWAKENING the Sinner
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January 16, 2022
Sermon Notes
Date: 01/16/2022
Preacher: Josh Peglow, guest preacher
Key Text: Luke 10:38-42
Description:
[Cell phone ringing]
Avg Guy: I don’t have time to talk to anybody!… Quick! Answer this for me.
SBC Host: Hello. Average Guy’s phone.
[garbled phone voice]
SBC Host: It’s Jesus.
Avg Guy: Tell Him I’m too busy.
Are you too busy to hear from Christ?
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Josh Peglow fills in at the pulpit and preaches through the familiar account of Mary and Martha.
Recall that Mary was the attentive one — the one who set everything aside, and sat at her Lord’s feet, to hear from Him.
Martha was the busy one, filled with overwhelm and a touch of sister-directed resentment, scurrying about to serve Him.
It’s easy for us to read this passage and assign misdirected priority and attention onto Martha. But this ultimately isn’t about what Martha should or shouldn’t have done: it’s about what you… and what you would do.
For there is no greater priority in the Christian life than hearing from Christ.
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- An Opportunity to Commune With Christ (38)
- The Opportunity Accepted (39)
- The Opportunity Neglected (40)
- The Lesson Taught (41-42)
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December 12, 2021
Sermon Notes
Date: 12/12/2021
Preacher: Josh Peglow, guest preacher
Key Text: 2 Corinthians 1:8-11
Description:
[Writing Vignette]
SBC Host: [writing] Dear family and friends. What a year it has been! Billy is growing up so fast. He started soccer and singing in the choir. Sally — not to be outdone — has taken up ballet, and found that she, too, enjoys singing. Of course, we all felt the bump in the road when our family suffered an affliction that was so great that it caused us the despair of life. We enjoyed our annual family vacation, though, down at the lake this summer….
Avg Guy: Whoah!! Wait! What happened!? “The despair of life”???
You can’t just gloss over something like that. You need to give us details!
SBC Host: Why? In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul didn’t.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Josh Peglow fills in at the pulpit and preaches out of the book of 2 Corinthians to show us that God uses trials to cause his people to stop trusting in themselves and, instead, in Him alone.
It’s not that he doesn’t want us to communicate our needs with others — He does. After all, it’s part of His plan of how we support each other.
But the main thrust of what we’ll learn today is that while we can suffer for all sorts of different reasons — and we will — (even a great apostle, such as Paul, is not immune) it’s when the despair becomes so great, that we humbly face the reality that, in and of ourselves, we have nothing to give.
Our burden is so excessive that we are beyond our strength.
While this can be a disconcerting place to be… It’s a good place to be.
Because as we put our trust and reliance in Him, we see God go to work… to establish His glory.
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- SEVERITY of Affliction (8)
- PURPOSE of Affliction (9a)
- DELIVERER of Affliction (9b-10)
- BENEFIT of Corporate PRAYER in Affliction (11)
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August 15, 2021
Sermon Notes
Date: 08/15/2021
Preacher: Josh Peglow, guest preacher
Key Text: 3 John 1:9-12
Description:
Avg Guy: As Christians, we must choose carefully who we imitate.
SBC Host: —Wait a minute… Are you trying to imitate *ME*??
Avg Guy: Well, ya.
SBC Host: Okay. Try it with less whine, then. Like this:
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Josh Peglow fills in at the pulpit and opens the book of 3rd John to show us that God has provided mature believers… (Okay, now your turn)
Avg Guy: …as an example to encourage our sanctification.
SBC Host: (It’s a start).
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Choose Carefully who you Imitate…
- A NEGATIVE Example: Diotrephes (9-10)
- the Character of a BAD example
- the Behavior of a BAD example
- the Indictment of a BAD example
- A CALL to Imitate the WORTHY (11)
- the Command to Imitate
- the Test
- A POSITIVE Example: Demetrius (12)
- the Universality of a GOOD example
- the Integrity of a GOOD example
- the Approval of a GOOD example
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