Hope-Filled Living: A Sermon on Personal Holiness

1 Peter 1:13-21 | Elect Exiles | Trent Hunter In this week's sermon we move from the initial declarations of the letter to exhortations. Peter has filled us up with a living hope. Now he calls us to live by and according to that hope. In short, he calls us to be holy as God is holy. Holiness is on hard times. Some get excited about a sermon on holiness because of what they think everyone else needs to be doing. Some people are ready for something practical after all these sermons on hope. Others are fine with holiness as long as it doesn't come off like God expects anything of us, because after all the gospel is about grace. In these and other ways, we simply go wrong on this topic. But getting our heads right on holiness will go a long and surprising way for our joy and our witness.