The Secret Place

Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek seeks for a deeper understanding of God's love through the incarnation of Jesus.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content relat...

Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks into the Goodness of God. When God's goodness takes residence in our hearts, it becomes an outworking of our lives into the lives of others. God's design is that you would be a expression of His goodne...

Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek looks into the union between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and unpacks our inclusion through Jesus.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additiona...

Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek continues to look at our origin story and how we stepped away from God through sin. Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related t...

Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek takes us back to the Garden of Eden and looks at our origin story and beyond, finding that God had planned to join us on Earth before sin had ever entered the equation.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor a...

Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks about the place of our original design and by dwelling in that place, peace and joy automatically flow. The best thought you've ever about yourself, doesn't compare to what God already thinks about you...

This is Season 4 of The Secret Place. Throughout this season, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home. In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek defines what home was always designed to be for us. A safe place, a place where you're not just welcomed, but cherished; a place with God. Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Bap...

Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:17-23. "...That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, po...

Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:15-16. "For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." Who are you...

Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:13-14. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is...

Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:7-12. "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding..." The Father and t...

Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:3-6: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the wor...

This is Season 3 of The Secret Place. Throughout this season, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:1-2: "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus...

This is the second episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek deeper described the meaning of sin and how it truely impacts our spiritual lives.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Pla...

This is the fifth episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." Go back to "Foundations" to listen to this series from the beginning.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks on how the God of the Universe, humbled Himself to come to Earth as a human, to be the perfect example of us. Jesus experienced every trial and triumph imaginable to man, from the Throne Room of...

This is the fourth episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." Go back to "Foundations" to listen to this series from the beginning.  In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares the story of Peter on the boat, casting his nets on the other side. Through this, the bible reveals the true position of the human heart, that we don't deserve the goodness and grace of God and...

This is the third episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares that God cannot be the Father without a Son and we can't be sons and daughters without a Father. God tied Himself to human kind through Jesus who came as evidence for God's decision.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Austr...

This is the second episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek works to better explain the timeline of creation through a human understanding. You were formed first in His mind, even before your mother's womb and before God said "let there be light" He had already decided to create himself in human form. Jesus, the Saviour of the wo...

This is the first episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares the ultimate purpose of the Word of God - to clothe itself with human flesh and become one with everyone on earth.  Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek elaborates on the idea that God prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies. Our hearts are to be reconditioned and transformed by God's love, so that we may choose Him every time despite being in the presence of the enemy and worldly things. God is looking for people who are hardened from the spiritual battle, who choose God in the midst of th...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek elaborates on the idea that Jesus is the Bridegroom and we are the Bride, waiting longingly for His return. Derek shares that we are not the product of our upbringing or past experiences, but we are to be the product of the calling of God, which is far greater than anything else in your past. You're not forgotten, broken or left out but you're part of a m...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek urges us to be transformed by the word of God. The life of a Christian is rooted in Jesus, drawing from Him, we act and sound different to the rest of the world. When we are transformed, it doesn't matter what we think is impossible, because in God and through God all things are possible. Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in B...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares about a time when his family were going through a tough season and how there we moments that felt like all hope was lost. Derek explains how he was able to find the peace of God through the secret place, a place of flourishing and strength. We can't control the outcome of tough circumstances but we can control the fact that we can come to Him, rest...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares the story of Joshua, just after the passing of Moses. God gives Joshua a personal promise and commandment which is the same as what He gives us today. "I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you and will never forsake you. Now be strong and of good courage." If God is with us then who can be against us.  Derek Peters is the Execu...

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek shares from the book of James which says that we are to be doers of the word and not just hearers. In the context of God's word, Derek defines the word 'doer' as a 'poetic performer,' or having an imaginative and emotive engagement with the word of God.  Become a poetic performer of God's word today, a doer, so that we may be transformed in the mirror tha...