Messages by Peter C. Steele (Page 7)
Secular Foundation: Inspecting the Structure – Finding God – week 4
Science Pastor Peter unpacks the question: If you believe in Christianity, do you have to turn your back on science? 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called…
Secular Foundation: Inspecting the Structure – Finding God – week 3
Sex, Marriage and Gender This Sunday, Pastor Peter unpacks the question: How do we understand marriage, sex, sexual preference and gender identity inside a culture that bristles at our biblical understanding of those topics? 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”27 So God created man in his own image; he created…
Secular Foundation – Inspecting the Structure – Finding God – week 2
This week Pastor Peter opens God’s word and examines Ephesians 2 to share with us what it says about equality. “11 So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh—called “the uncircumcised” by those called “the circumcised,” which is done in the flesh by human hands. 12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were…
Secular Foundation – Inspecting the Structure – Finding God – week 1
This week Pastor Peter started a new series called Secular Foundation and introduced what this series of messages will be about. “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth. So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 5
This week Pastor Peter returns to Hebrews 2:5-9 and answers the question: How do we anchor our faith in God when so much of what the Bible says seems to contradict our experience? 5 For he has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about. 6 But someone somewhere has testified: What is man that you remember him,or the son of man that you care for him?7 You made him lower than the angelsfor a short time;you crowned him…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 20
We all know what it’s like to be let down. How do we trust Jesus won’t fail us when everything and everyone else does? Pastor Peter walks us through Hebrews 7:20-28 and explains why we can cement our faith in Jesus. 20 None of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath made by the one who said to him: The Lord has swornand will not change his mind,“You are…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 19
Have you ever asked one of these questions: How do we stop trying to earn God’s favor on our own? How do we embrace the grace of God and not fall into performance driven Christianity? Pastor Peter walks us through Hebrews 7:11-19 to help us answer those tough questions. 11 Now if perfection came through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the law), what further need was there for another priest to appear, said to…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 18
This week Pastor Peter unpacks Hebrews 7:1-10 and answers the question: How do we overflow in heartfelt worship when our worship so easily slips into moral living? 7 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, met Abraham and blessed him as he returned from defeating the kings, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means king of righteousness, then also, king of Salem, meaning king of peace. 3 Without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 17
This Sunday, Pastor Peter walks us through Hebrews 6:13-20 where the author describes a time of difficulty and encourages us to persevere. How do we keep hope and faith when we go through trials? “For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself: I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply you. And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise. For people swear by something…
Discovering Jesus – unveiling His work in the book of Hebrews – week 16
Last Sunday, we unpacked Hebrews 6:4-8 which included a warning that God provides out of His deep love for us. This week Pastor Peter walks us through Hebrews 6:9-12 which shows us the comfort that we can find in that warning. It is difficult to stay diligent in a hostile culture. But God sees us in our struggles and we can endure and persevere because of the promise of eternity with Christ through faith. 9 Even though we are speaking this…