Sermon
A Different Kind of Hope
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
September 14, 2022 · 51 min
Summary
Peter instructs suffering churches on five ways to endure trials faithfully: worship God before trials deepen your foundation, hope in Christ's resurrection during trials, remember God's active presence through the Holy Spirit, trust that trials have God-ordained purpose, and keep your gaze fixed on Jesus's sufferings and glory.
Highlights
The best way to prepare for trials in the future is to deepen your worship of God in the present.
When you are born again, it's like your balloon gets filled with helium. God gives you a new heart and new desires and new affections so that you want to do the thing that God has called you to do.
Every trial in your life is Father-filtered. Every trial in your life has to pass through the hands of your perfectly wise, loving, gracious, committed Heavenly Father.