The You're going to The Apostle Peter wrote his first letter to encourage believers who were scattered and persecuted,

and as we begin getting to know Peter today on Truth for Life, we will better

understand why his teaching can be trusted and will discover three things that are

true for every genuine believer.

Alistairbegg begins our study in the opening verses of First Peter.

We're going to begin this morning a series of studies in this first letter of

Peter, what is one of the most practical epistles of the New Testament. Let me give to you some of the things

that come across our path on a pastoral level on a daily basis which I believe are

addressed if not directly certainly indirectly in this first Peter.

For example someone comes and says I'm going through a particularly difficult time in my life.

My health isn't good, and my wife isn't particularly well either,

and we have been entrusted with the responsibility of caring for our elderly parents,

how should we react to this?

When something goes wrong in my classroom or my office, I seem to be the one who bears the rebuke.

It's unjust and I don't like it.

What should I do? Or I'm not sure where I fit in in the church. How can I find out and where do I start?

Or I just came from a church which have committees for everything but I don't understand

biblical church leadership is there a pattern.

Now that sample of activities is adequately addressed for us in this book First Peter.

And I want to commend to you the reading of First Peter,

regular reading of it, systematic reading of it, of it,

memorizing of it, let it abide in our hearts.

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