1 Peter 1.22-2.3 | STAND FIRM…for holiness
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. | 1 Peter 1.22-23 Peter here isn’t concerned […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on the return of Jesus
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on the assurance of salvation.
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on future glory
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // 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, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on God’s grace
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be […]
The Spirit in Gifts
Pastor Jim Fikkert
As an addendum to our planned series, we address the issue of the Spiritual Gifts, specifically: how should understand the glimpses of the Spirit we see manifested and what should we think of the multitude of actions credited to the Spirit in the modern world.
The Spirit in unity
Pastor Jim Fikkert
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. | John […]
The Spirit in us
Pastor Jim Fikkert
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just […]
The Spirit in the World
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the […]
The Spirit in Salvation
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. | John 15.26-27 Now when they heard this they were cut […]
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