Pondering with the Peters

In this passage, we see Abram's obedience to the call of God to go to the Promised Land, but then we also see Abram's failure to trust God to fulfill His promises. Yet we can have confidence that nothing and no one can derail God's promises, not even God's people.

In this special episode, Brenden and Helena discuss where we can get good theology, how everyone is a theologian, and ways for how to teach theology to your children.

In this episode, Brenden and Helena discuss their first core value - relationship with God - and what time with God looks like.

In this episode, Brenden and Helena discuss the gospel of Jesus Christ, and how it shapes family life and ministry.

Though Abram seems like an unlikely candidate to re-establish God's kingdom on the earth, God will nonetheless be faithful to bring the nations back to Himself. And we have been invited into this unfolding drama. Jesus is inviting His disciples to reclaim the world for the kingdom of God and has empowered us by His Spirit to do it.

At the tower of Babel, we see man's attempt to ascend to God, and we see God's gracious condescension to man. God's scattering of defiant and self-reliant humanity looks forward to Pentecost where people from every nation would hear the good news about Jesus Christ in their own language.

The God who created all people has a plan to redeem all people. And by God’s grace, we have a part to play in God’s redemption of the nations.

In this passage, we see that sin is alive and well in the new world. But we also see the hope of Jesus Christ. Though we are all by nature like Noah and Ham, by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, God regards us as righteous.

God promises to sovereignly preserve the earth and to never again destroy the world with a flood. But what does God require of His creatures in return? In this sermon, we look at God's unconditional and universal and everlasting covenant, and how it points us to a new and better covenant through Jesus Christ.

In the flood account, we see how infinitely holy God is and how breathtakingly offensive our sin is to Him. Yet even though God judges sin and wickedness, in His grace, He always saves a remnant to continue His kingdom on the earth.

In this passage, we see just how far mankind has plummeted from their privileged position, as “every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” But we also see how, in the midst of all the wickedness on the earth, there is hope: “Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” Noah points forward to Jesus who absorbed the floodwaters of God’s wrath, so that, by faith in Jesus Ch...

In this genealogy of the godly line of the offspring of the woman, we see the faithfulness of God, the sting of death, and the hope of eternal life. When we receive the good news of Jesus Christ by faith, then one day we will be no more, for God will take us to be with Him forever.

How are Christians to engage and relate to the surrounding culture, the culture of Cain, a culture with a disposition toward leaving God out? We proclaim the good news that God sent His Son into the world, in the Person of Jesus Christ, that all who "call upon the name of the Lord" will be saved.

In the narrative of Cain and Abel, we see the battle between the offspring of the serpent and the offspring of the woman on full display. But we also see God's grace on full display. Even though we are rebels against the King of the universe like Cain, through faith in Jesus Christ, we don't get what we deserve, but rather, we get grace. And even though the battle against the serpent will be fierc...

The judgment of God against human sin explains every problem we face in the world. But in the judgment of God against human sin, we also see the answer to all the wrong in the world. For those who put their hope in Jesus, we do not get the judgment we deserve. Instead, we get grace. But there remains judgment for those who do not put their hope in Jesus. Will we believe the good news of Jesus Chri...

In Genesis 3, in the midst of God’s judgment against human sin, we see God’s grace in the promise of One who would crush the head of the serpent by being crushed for us. And His name is Jesus.

In Genesis 3, we come to the saddest moment in human history. When Adam and Eve sinned, we all sinned. In this passage, we find the explanation for why the world is the way it is, but we also find hope in Jesus Christ who offers us something better than the fruit of the garden; He offers us Himself.

Though we are not all married, we see what marriage points us to. The union of husband and wife is giving way to an even greater union that depends upon faith and repentance, as the Bride of Christ, the Church, is joined to the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ, and where we are His and He is ours.

In our text, we get a picture of the good life, the way things are supposed to be, and the way things will be once again. Though we all have failed to live perfectly before our Creator and King, Jesus Christ lived the perfect life and died the death we deserved to die and was raised from the dead in victory over sin and death, so that we can have eternal life through faith in Him.

After forming and filling the earth in six days, God rested on the seventh day. In this sermon, we’ll look at what God rested from, and why the seventh day is central, not only to creation, but also to the destiny of God’s people.

In Genesis 1, we see the apex of a fully formed and fully filled world. Looking at the second three days of creation, we see a remarkable correspondence to the first three days of creation, where God wondrously fills the creation He has formed, and how God can fill us with His forgiveness and righteousness.

In Genesis 1, we read the literal history of what God did when He created the heavens and the earth. Looking at the first three days of creation, we see the forming of the world that was once formless, and how God can bring form out of the chaos of our lives.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." These words are more than an introduction to the first book of the Bible. These words are absolutely essential to understanding what the world is, who we are in the world, and who God is in relationship to us and His creation.