Message: “Entrust Your Soul To God” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” You know our lives are pretty good here in Salt Lake City, but this week Peter is going to remind us that sometimes “fiery trials” come on us as believers from out of nowhere. Peter doesn’t want us to think these trials strange, but rather be prepared to face them with faith and trust in God. This week we will continue in our 1 Peter series, Firm in the Faith, looking at 1 Peter 4:12-19 which provides a pathway forward in the midst of the suffering we will face. Peter will tell us to rejoice, do good, and entrust our souls to God – knowing that the suffering is in God’s hands, it will refine us, God will be with us, and ultimately there will be life and joy to be had as a follower of Jesus. No matter what you may be facing, God wants to walk with you and see you through it. Let’s entrust ourselves to him.
Message: “An Unlikely Decision, An Unlikely Result” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” Peter in these verses is calling us to take on the mind of Christ as we live as believers in the world. We are to set our minds to live for God knowing that will involve suffering. As we set our minds to live for Jesus, which will include suffering, he tells us that decision will lead to victory over sin. When we live for something greater in the Gospel sin loses its power. Peter in the rest of these verses will then contrast how the world lives with the way God has called us to live in the Spirit. God has invited us to a great hope of salvation and a great adventure living for his kingdom that will bear fruit in our lives now and eternal life in the future.
Message: “Hope in Christ in the Midst of Suffering and Adversity” from Tono Rodriguez
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” We continue studying 1 Peter, and what a blessing it has been. It has challenged us to respond to God’s exhortations, and it undoubtedly continues to sanctify us to live according to His purpose for our lives individually, and as a Church corporately. We will see the blessing we have with our hope in Christ; the One who sustains us in the midst of any difficulty and who, through His suffering and victory, opens a direct path for us to God.
Message: “Gospel Living” from Ben Sutton
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” Join us as our College Minister Ben Sutton continues our series in 1 Peter as we look at Gospel Living.
Message: “Called to Injustice For the Gospel” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” This week we will continue in our 1 Peter series, Firm in the Faith, looking at 1 Peter 2:11-25. Now this is an interesting passage to consider on a weekend where we celebrate our freedom. Peter is going to call us in our new found freedom in Christ to submit ourselves to Jesus and every human institution, because all authority in this world comes from God. Furthermore he will call us to be ok with suffering injustice, knowing that when we suffer for doing good, we are actually identifying with Jesus and the very core of the Gospel. When you suffer for doing good, you are walking in the very footsteps of Jesus as he went to the cross and suffered and died for our sins, though he himself was sinless. And yet it was Christ suffering of injustice that led to our salvation in God’s plan. In a similar fashion, God is bearing witness to the Gospel through us when we as followers of Jesus suffer injustice for doing good. Peter’s message to us again is that we can only suffer well and persevere when we have set our hope on the grace that is to be revealed at the return of Christ. If we are firm in what God has done and is doing through Christ to save us, we can persevere through any suffering with hope.
Message: “God’s New Living Building” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” This Sunday we will dive back into 1 Peter and think about what it means to be Firm in the Faith again. Together, we will look at 1 Peter 2:4-12. Here Peter gives us important imagery for God’s people, the church. He shows us how we are all being built into a spiritual house for God. No physical temple needed anymore. God’s people will be God’s new temple, and Jesus is the cornerstone. Jesus as the cornerstone will be good for those that believe, but for others he will be a rock of offence and great stumbling block. You can probably think of many people in your life right now that are stumbling over Jesus. For God’s people however, Jesus will be the sure foundation we need to get through life with a living hope.
Message: “How to Live Like You Believe the Gospel” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” Today we will be continuing in our series, Firm in The Faith, in 1 Peter. We will take a look at 1 Peter 1:13-2:3 tomorrow. In light of everything that Peter has said about our salvation in the first twelve verses of chapter 1, he will call us to set our hope fully on the grace that is to come when Jesus returns. Peter wants us in to live like we believe the Gospel. He will give us several very practical imperatives for how we are to live in light of the Gospel if we have set our hope on Jesus.
Message: “The Mindset of an Elect Exile” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – Firm in the Faith: 1 Peter .” This Sunday we will be starting a new series in 1 Peter which we are calling Firm in the Faith. Peter is writing to Christians spread across the world to encourage them to continue to hope in God and the salvation he has accomplished in Christ. Life in our world is difficult, and we see and experience tremendous amounts of suffering daily, but this should not lead us to despair or abandon our faith. Peter wants us to remember what God is doing even in the midst of everything – that God will be faithful to save us. Peter also makes God really big in his letter. The bigger we see God in our world and in our lives the surer our hope becomes. If we are going to face everything that life throws at us we need to hope in the Gospel and what God is doing.
This week we will begin our study of 1 Peter looking at 1 Peter 1:1-12. Here Peter wants to remind us who we are as Christians and of our relationship to the world. We are ‘elect exiles’ as he calls us. People chosen by God for a salvation that will be accomplished, and yet we live life as foreigners on this earth as we wait for Jesus. We will be tested through suffering, but that suffering is used of God to refine us. This is what God has planned, and he will be faithful.
Message: “Encouraging One Another” from Jeremiah Johnston
A message from the series “2025 – The Church.” This will be the last sermon in our series on The Church. Jeremiah Johnston will be preaching from Hebrews 10:23-25. In these verses the author of Hebrews encourages us as the church to not neglect meeting together, but to meet regularly as the body of Christ to encourage one another as we wait for Christ’s return. In addition, the author of Hebrews encourages us as the church to consider how we can continue to stir one another up to love and good deeds as we hold fast the confession of our faith without wavering, because God will be faithful to complete our salvation in Christ.
Message: “Known for Love” from Jared Jenkins
A message from the series “2025 – The Church.” Today we will continue our church series as we look at John 13:34-35 – The Church: Known For Love. These two verses are Jesus’ new command to the disciples–that his new society of believers, the church, will be known for the love that it has between its members. Furthermore, it will be this love that will be a witness to the world. This love will be defined by the love Jesus showed his disciples, and the love he has shown to the world on the cross. These are truly challenging verses for us to wrestle with as a church. This kind of love can only come through a mind and heart that has been transformed by the Gospel and empowered by the Spirit.
