Sunday, October 1, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:11 (NIV) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. We are aliens and sojourners. 1 John 2:15 — Do not love the world or anything in the world. 1 Corinthians…

Sunday, September 24, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:11-12 (NIV) Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your…

Sunday, September 17, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:10-12 (NIV) “Once you had no identity as a people;    now you are God’s people.Once you received no mercy;    now you have received God’s mercy.” Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be…

Sunday, August 20, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:4-5 (NIV) As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. If we build our foundation…

Sunday, August 13, 2023 | Gus Hacker Mark 6:30-42 (NIV) Jesus had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Compassion = wanting to alleviate one’s suffering. Jesus never takes His eyes off of us. He sees our physical and spiritual needs. How do we cope with circumstances? Are we like Jesus…

Sunday, August 6, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 2:4-8 (NIV): As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:…

Sunday, July 30, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:22-2:3 (NIV): Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people…

Sunday, July 23, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:22-2:3 (NIV): Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people…

Sunday, July 9, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:17-20 (NIV): Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you…

Sunday, June 25, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:13 (NIV): 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. Three tasks: (1) Prepare your minds for action. (2) Exercise self-control. (3) Put your hope in your salvation. This…