Welcome to Gospel and Life.

How can you become the kind of person whose character deepens during hardship?

The Apostle Peter tells us it's a supernatural work of God that reshapes the heart.

Today, Tim Keller shows us how only a reborn, renewed heart can love others well and face

suffering with hope,

courage, and joy.

Tonight we celebrate the Lord's Supper, so we try to concentrate our teaching time,

try to make a little bit shorter, and also try to focus

on just one, one subject, one idea. I love the Lord's Supper evenings. I only do it once a month.

What I like about it, of course, is I like to have time to process the the truth i like to be able to take the truth that

i'm hearing and by the way i hear it too you might be surprised at that but very often the sermon i

wrote in the sermon that happens are not at all the same and sometimes i sit down and i say

hmm that is true i wish I'd thought of it. And when you do that,

you need time to process it. So tonight I'm going to give you some truth out of First Peter.

We've been going through the book all year, all fall, that we can take and process in God's

presence when we go to the table.

Now, we've been going through the book of First Peter, and we're going to read the same

passage we read last week, and it's printed in your bulletin.

It's First Peter, chapter 1, verse 22, to chapter 2, verse 3.

Read along with me, if you can.

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply from the heart.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable through the living and

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