Continuing a reposted series from 2015 on 2 Peter 1:5–11, Luke Harriman takes a close look at steadfastness, or endurance, and its importance in the Christian life.
This is the fifth in the series of messages we are reposting on the seven qualities of 2 Peter 1:5–11. Here we are encouraged to add to our faith self-control.
This is the fourth in the series of messages we are reposting on the seven qualities of 2 Peter 1:5–11. Taking a break from the list of seven, Luke Harriman turns to a discussion of the general need for discipline in the life of the believer.
During our Lord’s Day meeting, Brother Glen Smalling shared these thoughts on the way the Lord is our sustaining help and hope in the past, in our present moment, and in the future glory that we await.
This is the third in the series of messages we are reposting on the seven qualities of 2 Peter 1:5–11. Here we are encouraged to add to our faith knowledge, a key theme in the book of 2 Peter.
This is the second in the series of messages we are reposting on the seven qualities of 2 Peter 1:5–11. Here we are encouraged to add to our faith excellence, or “virtue.”
Six years ago, as we were going through 2 Peter in our Thursday night Bible study, Luke Harriman preached a series of messages on the seven qualities of 2Peter 1:5–11. Since the Spirit of God has returned us to this chapter once again, we will be reposting these ten messages over the next few weeks for anyone interested in reviewing them. This is the introductory message in the series, originally delivered at Pine Street Chapel on a Lord’s Day morning in 2015.
In times of grief and trial—as with the recent home-call of our young sister Kimberly Gordon—the truths found in chapter 8 of Romans can be a source of comfort and encouragement. There we are reminded of the glory, groaning, goodness, and gracious gift promised to the children of God. Let us continue to bear the Howie Gordon family up in our prayers as they have had to say goodbye to their two young daughters within only a few months of one another. We are grateful to know the God who is near to those who are brokenhearted.
Luke Harriman shared these thoughts on the eternal destination for every believer: to be conformed to the image of our Lord Jesus Christ. Keeping this end goal in mind can help us course correct when we veer off the path.
Brother Ken shared this Lord’s Day meditation on the seven witnesses to the Lord Jesus in John 5. As Peter puts it in his second epistle, “we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”
During our Thursday night open ministry, Brother Orrin Ledgister shared a word of encouragement for the New Year, that we would keep our eyes fixed on the Lord and His coming for us, as He promised in John 14.
During our Thursday night open ministry, Brother Glen Smalling shared a word from 2 Kings 4 on the sufficiency of Christ, symbolized by the meal (flour) thrown into the poisoned pot to make it clean. Truly, what we need in the midst of our trying circumstances is Jesus and Jesus alone.
At Jesus’s baptism, the voice from heaven came, saying, “This is my Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” Jesus received this commendation before entering the wilderness of His temptation. Now that we are in Christ, we can receive the same reminders that we are God’s child, that we are loved, and that we are acceptable to Him as we prepare to enter 2021.
Brother Collin Beckford offered these thoughts on Psalm 103 during our Lord’s Day meeting, encouraging us to live lives of praise to the Lord.
Brother Glen Smalling shared these thoughts on the love of the Father toward the Son. In every area, where man responded to the Lord in John 19 with rejection, the Father responds by glorifying and validating Him.
Brother Norris Clarke shares a word of encouragement from 2 Corinthians on the challenge from Paul to “examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.”
Ken Huebner and Luke Harriman reflect on the prophetic calling of Isaiah in chapter 6. Hidden within the ministry of Isaiah is the promise of One who will truly say, “Here I am, send Me.”
At the core of our faith is an impossible birth—the birth of the Lord Jesus to the virgin Mary. Clearly, as Gabriel told her when he announced the glorious news that she would bear the Son of God, nothing is impossible for God. This theme echoes the announcement to Sarah in Genesis 18, and it reemerges in Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus in John 3 about the new birth. Truly, we can trust this God of the impossible to complete the good work in us and bring us safely into His presence in glory.
Although we continually confess the peerless nature of the Lord Jesus, there are times that we can be distracted from our undistracted focus on Him. In this Lord’s Day message, Luke Harriman looks at three people in the gospels who were distracted in the presence of Jesus. May we be encouraged to fix our eyes on Him!
After Brother Laurel Smalling shared a few thoughts on the blessings we receive from God—our justification and future glorification—Brother Glen Smalling spoke on the amazing truth of our identity as the Church. As we read in John 17 and elsewhere, the Church is a gift from God the Father to the Lord Jesus. What a thought to know we are His treasure!