St John’s Diamond Creek Talks
Episodes
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Strangers || Missional Respect || 1 Peter 2:13-3:7
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Grappling with harder and weightier topics in the Bible together as we strengthen our community and our faith in God. Megan tackles Peter's instructions to first-century Christian Slaves, Wives and Husbands to submit to authority. These early Christians were freed in their relationship with God, and welcomed into this new family - no Jew or Greek, Slave or Free, Male or Female. The identity of these people broke through previous barriers of their culture. How does Peter's instruction to submit follow through to us in the 21st century? Megan looks at the trajectory which Jesus himself set the culture on, and where it is leading us today.
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Strangers || Taking the Right Path || 1 Peter 2:11-12
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
How do you know how to take the right path in life? Sam explores these two verses from Peter's letter to first century Christians, and how they show us which path we should take in our lives.
Should we walk the path of isolation, of assimilation, or of proclamation?
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Strangers || Living Stones and Royal Priesthood || 1 Peter 2:1-10
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Peter's letter to churches scattered across the known world of the first century speaks to the identity of the recipients of the letter and reminds them that they are a chosen people - chosen by God.
Julie looks deeply into the phrases used to identify these early Christians, and by extension, us today. Being called 'living stones', and a 'royal priesthood' isn't something we easily relate to today, but 2000 years ago the context of the ancient world would have made these identities make more sense.
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Strangers || Be Holy || 1 Peter 1:13-25
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
A 2000-year-old letter written by one of Jesus' friends, 1 Peter presents the Christian life as a journey that we all go on - beginning when we decide to start our relationship with Jesus, and ending when we see him face-to-face.
Peter gives us directions for this journey, and this week Kirk explores Peter telling Christians to "be holy", by being obedient. Obedience has a pretty lame reputation in most contexts, but Kirk shows us how being obedient can be a very good thing.