Messages by Peter C. Steele
Praying the Psalms – Prayers of Righteousness as wretched people
This Sunday, we continue our series on Praying the Psalms by looking at some of the ways God works in us as we pray Psalms of righteousness despite our sinfulness. Vindicate me, Lord,because I have lived with integrityand have trusted in the Lord without wavering.2 Test me, Lord, and try me;examine my heart and mind.3 For your faithful love guides me,and I live by your truth. 4 I do not sit with the worthlessor associate with hypocrites.5 I hate a crowd of evildoers,and I do not sit with…
Praying the Psalms: God as our Refuge
This week Pastor Peter focuses his message on how God is our Refuge. God is our refuge and strength,a helper who is always foundin times of trouble.2 Therefore we will not be afraid,though the earth tremblesand the mountains toppleinto the depths of the seas,3 though its water roars and foamsand the mountains quake with its turmoil. Selah 4 There is a river—its streams delight the city of God,the holy dwelling place of the Most High.5 God is within her; she will not be toppled.God…
Praying the Psalms – Shaped by the Psalms
This week Pastor Peter teaches on why reading all the Psalms is important in our prayer lives. I lift my eyes toward the mountains.Where will my help come from?2 My help comes from the Lord,the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to slip;your Protector will not slumber.4 Indeed, the Protector of Israeldoes not slumber or sleep. 5 The Lord protects you;the Lord is a shelter right by your side.6 The sun will not strike you by dayor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will protect you…
Psalm 131
Today Pastor Peter teaches us how to position our hearts below God through the words in Psalm 131. 1 Lord, my heart is not proud;my eyes are not haughty.I do not get involved with thingstoo great or too wondrous for me.2 Instead, I have calmed and quieted my soullike a weaned child with its mother;my soul is like a weaned child. 3 Israel, put your hope in the Lord,both now and forever. Psalm 131: 1-3 (CSB)
Ephesians – week 19
This Sunday was our final week through the book of Ephesians. Pastor Peter unpacked Ephesians 6:10-24 with us. 10 Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength. 11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. 13 For this reason take up the full armor of God, so that…
Ephesians – week 18
5 Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ. 6 Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart. 7 Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to people, 8 knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord. 9 And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them, because you know that both their Master and yours is…
Ephesians – week 17
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, 3 so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land. 4 Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:1-4 (CSB)
Ephesians – week 16
21 submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her…
Ephesians – week 15
This week Pastor Peter continued our journey through Ephesians and challenged us to live differently in our culture by overflowing with praise for Jesus. 15 Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— 16 making the most of the time, because the days are evil. 17 So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. 18 And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit: 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and…
Ephesians – week 14
5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children, 2 and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3 But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. 4 Obscene and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5 For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and…