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…

Sunday, June 19, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:10-12 (NIV): Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah…

Sunday, June 4, 2023 | Gus Hacker Isaiah 12:2-4 (NIV): “Surely God is my salvation;    I will trust and not be afraid.The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense;    he has become my salvation.”With joy you will draw water    from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say: Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;    make known among the nations what he has…

Sunday, May 21, 2023 | Gus Hacker 1 Peter 1:8 (NIV): Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy… 2 Corinthians 4:6 – It’s more important to realize what God has done in…

Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Gus Hacker Proverbs 31:26-29 (NIV): She speaks with wisdom,    and faithful instruction is on her tongue.She watches over the affairs of her household    and does not eat the bread of idleness.Her children arise and call her blessed;    her husband also, and he praises her:“Many women do noble things,    but you surpass them all.” Woodrow…