Sermons by Kurt Jurgensmeier (Page 12)
Visionary Faith: It’s Risk and Challenge
Evaluate your life based on faith, not on fruit. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 – “So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.”
Principles for Obeying Human Authorities in Our Life
The mere preferences of your legitimate human authorities are the Lord’s commands. ‘1 Peter 2:13 – Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority:whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority.’
An Introduction to God’s Will for Human Authorities in Our Life
For the Lord’s sake, submit to all human Authorities. 1 Peter 2:13 – Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority:whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority.
#10 – 1 Peter: Elect Exiles – Finding Your Significance in God’s Love for You
Find your significance in God’s love for you, and nothing or no one else. 1 Peter 2: 4-11 – As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living…
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
Be transformed by the Renewing of your Mind 1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
# 7 – 1 Peter: Elect Exiles – Be Holy to be Happy
Be Holy to be Happy. 1 Peter 1:14 – 16: As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy
#4 – 1 Peter: Elect Exiles – Hope in the Endtimes
The Hope we have in Christ’s return should motivate us to make the most of our lives for him. 1 Peter 1:13 – Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
The Essentials of Preparing & Delivering Messages
The reason that teaching is so important is that a primary purpose of the Church is to change lives.
#2 – 1 Peter: Elect Exiles – Happiness in Hard Times
You can smile in every trial because of what you have in Christ. 1 Peter 1: 6-8 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith of greater worth than gold, which…