One day Jesus will return and followers of Jesus will find a new beginning.   While we wait, we are to live Godly lives.

We have access to many different messages in our world.   How do we know what is true?  We turn to the scriptures to evaluate the messages we hear.

 2 Peter 1:12-21

Peter was transformed by Jesus.   As we go through life, it is Jesus that changes our life and gives us assurance for our future. 2 Peter 1:1-11

As followers of Jesus, we bear his name. Sometimes living for Jesus leads to suffering that we must endure. Scriptures: 1 Peter 4:12-19

As followers of Jesus, we are called to live a lifestyle that sometimes forces us to go against the current of our culture and community. 1 Peter 4:1-11

Sometimes things don’t go as expected, and sometimes we do what is right and still end up suffering. As Christians we face these challenges because we know that our victory is in Jesus.

As God's chosen people we have been called to be a holy priesthood, who mediates between our world and our God through spiritual sacrifices. One of the most effective spiritual sacrifices that we can make, which is acceptable and pleasing to God, is that of radical self-denial.

God has chosen us and now we respond by trying to lives that will impact the world.

Knowing who we are is important. It impacts many facets of life including spiritual life. We are special to God and his chosen people, and he has called us to live out a special purpose.

Scriptures: 1 Peter 2:4-10; Exodus 19:5-6

God has made salvation possible for us through Jesus and we look forward to the inheritance we have waiting for us. While we wait for that day, God calls us to live different lives now that we belong to Him, and so we strive to live Holy lives because He is Holy. 1 Peter 1:13-2:3

As Christians sometimes the values and priorities of God clash with the values and the priorities of the culture and world. We just find ourselves not fitting in – or as Peter says in 1 Peter – we are exiles or strangers in the world. This world though is not our permanent home – God has prepared that for us with Him in Heaven.

One of the saddest verses in scripture is in Judges 2 where it indicates a whole generation grew up that did not know God. Let us discover how we can help keep that from happening today.

The gloom and grief of the cross and death, brought the new day of sunlight and joy of the resurrection.   The resurrection us a Savior to remove our fear and a story to tell.

Jesus enters Jerusalem for his last Passover as a king.   While some are rejecting him, his disciples joyfully praise who he is and what he has done.

 Luke 18:31-19:44

Lust is desire for something.  Lust or desire is at the heart of our sinful behaviors, and to overcome sin and temptation we can work at changing those basic desires.