So, for example, the first generation of Christians after the apostles mention 1 Peter, and quote from it. All of the books of the New Testament are mentioned, referenced and/or quoted from the time of the very earliest writings of Christians. In addition to the New Testament, we have some of the writings of Christians who lived immediately after the time of the apostles, as well as writings of later Christians, down through the centuries. I’ll take this opportunity to give a reminder about how the New Testament came to be. We will be looking at the first of these. Peter wrote only two letters that have survived. It is just that the bible itself will determine the topics. So, this is a topical series, in a sense. Instead, the text of the Bible tells us which topics to consider. When we do things like that, then I am not deciding which topics to preach about. As we look at First Peter, the text will introduce a number of different topics. I am not utterly against doing topical sermon series’, but I’d like to encourage you to think a little differently about that. We are starting a new series, today, on the first letter of Peter.

To download, right click on the link (or do whatever you do on a Mac) and save it to your computer: Download 1 Peter Part 1

To listen to the sermon, click the play button: This time we look at the history and setting surrounding the New Testament book of 1 Peter.

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