SERMONS ON PETER
Our sermon ideas on Peter will help you prepare a powerful message. Prepare your messages on Peter with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Search below to find the sermon prep resources you need.
Or get 30 free credits when you start a Free Trial!
Peter - The Denying Disciple (14 of 15)
by Stan Coffey
I. THE FAILURE OF THE SAINT Luke 22:57 (CSV) - But he denied it: ''Woman, I don't know Him!'' A. We Fail Because of Pride Luke 22:33-34 - (33) ''Lord,'' he told Him, ''I'm ready to go with You both to prison and to death!'' (34)''I tell you, Peter,'' He said, ''the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know Me!'' B. We Fail Because of Prayerlessness Luke 22:45-46 - (45) When He got up from prayer and came to the disciples, He found them sleeping, exhausted from their grief (46) ''Why are you sleeping?'' He asked them. ''Get up and pray, so that you won't enter into temptation.'' C. We Fail Because of...
Peter's Restoration
by Charles H. Spurgeon
And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly (Luke 22:60-62). Peter had terribly fallen. He had denied his Master, denied Him repeatedly, denied Him with oaths, denied Him in His presence while his Master was being smitten and falsely charged. He had denied Him, though he was an apostle, denied Him, though he had declared that should all men forsake Him, yet would he never be offended. It was a sad, sad sin. Remember what...
The Courage to Venture like Peter (3 of 7)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: There is a certain law of nature that goes like this: "everything takes the path of least resistance." Whether it is electricity flowing, rocks falling, or water running, things follow the path of least resistance when left to themselves. Have you ever noticed a river and how it differs from a canal? Canals are straight because they are man made - the shortest distance between two points created by man. A river however meanders around all kinds of angles and obstacles going from point A to point B, it may actually take twice the distance to go from A to B than a canal does - why? Because left to itself a river will naturally follow a path of...
Peter - A Faith Refined (2 of 13)
by Brad Whitt
INTRO: I want you to take God's precious, inspired and holy Word now this morning and be finding your place at Luke chapter 22 if you would. We are in a series of studies on 12 ordinary men who were called by Jesus to do some very extraordinary things, and of course, we're talking and learning about the 12 disciples (or the 12 apostles). And as I shared with you last week, one of the things that makes these men so wonderful and applicable for us to study is the fact that they were so very human. They had their faults and their failures, their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their defeats just like we do...
The Peter Principle
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: I recently heard a radio announcer tell about a man who went through a drive up at a KFC restaurant. He ordered about $6 worth of food and then pulled up to give his money to the teller. He handed her a $200 bill. It had President George Bush's picture on the front and on the back was a picture of a vegetable with the words beneath it declaring ''I hate broccoli!'' She took the bill and gave him his food and exact change. He drove away, apparently never to be seen again. (For the record, there are no $200 bills and no US legitimate currency has the picture of President George Bush - let alone broccoli - on it.''By contrast, this is a...
Peter's (Not so) Great Escape (9 of 21)
by Chris Brown
1. Prayer isn't just something we do; it's someone we're with. Acts 12:5-12, Matthew 7:7-12, John 15:1-8, Romans 10:14-16, James 5:13-18 2. The opposite of faith is inaction; not doubt. Acts 12:9, 11, 15-16, Mark 9:14-29, Matthew 8:23-27 3. It's not the amount; it's the object of our faith that matters. Acts 12:5, James 2:17-20, Matthew 17:14-21 4. We ask for what we want, but God decides what we get. Acts 12:1-4, 24-25, James 1:16-17 TAKING IT HOME 1. Is there a specific way you deal with crises or is there a lesson you've learned about prayer you'd like to further develop as a result of this week's teaching and study? 2. Is there...
Peter - Do You Love Me? (6 of 10)
by John Barnett
''Peter, Do you love Me?''Have you ever answered the question Jesus asked three times to Peter? It was directed to Peter that morning two thousand years ago, but it is also directed to us each day we live. ''DO YOU LOVE ME?''Spoken to Peter, heard by the other disciples, recorded forever in God's Word-those are the words of Christ we need to examine this morning. They are found in John 21:16. Please turn there with me. If we will watch and listen closely, John 21 can become a school with Jesus Christ Himself as our instructor, training us in loving Him with all our hearts and lives. Christ's final lesson focused on just one area...
The Trial of Peter (10 of 15)
by Clarence E. Macartney
That is the story of the trial of Peter: how Christ transformed a man of clay into a stone. The geologist tells us that much of the rock that now forms the surface of the earth was once clay. So every human soul has in it the capacity, under divine grace, to become a redeemed soul, to become a character and personality upon whom men can build. One of the joys of heaven to which we can look forward with the greatest expectation will be the joy of seeing and meeting and hearing the great personalities of the Bible: Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Elijah, Daniel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, John, Barnabas, Paul, and Peter. I imagine, too, that the...
Peter's Best Shot - Peter's Reasons to Believe in Jesus (1 of 2)
by Steve Jones
Intro: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created a Doomsday Clock in 1947 to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons. This past Wednesday, they moved the clock two minutes closer to midnight, symbolizing the annihilation of civilization and adding the perils of global warming for the first time. Ooooooooooo, I'm scared. Actually, I'm for almost anything that forces us to confront our own mortality, our own death, because that's when we start paying closer attention to the things that matter...spiritual things. After a man survived a hanging and subsequently turned his life around, Abraham Lincoln...
Lessons from Peter's Meltdown
by Robert Walker
A Young army officer who surrendered to the enemy in the French and Indian War later he became the Father of our Country. His name was George Washington. There was a man who failed in business. Later he was defeated for the legislature, defeated for elector, defeated for the congress, defeated for the senate and defeated for the vice presidency. However, in 1860 he was elected as President of the United States, and his efforts brought the Emancipation Proclamation. His name was Abraham Lincoln. But oh what lessons we can learn from the faults and failures of others. When you look at the life of Peter it is very...
Reflections on Peter
by Brian Fletcher
What was Peter doing? Just a few hours before this he was ready to single-handedly take on several hundred Roman soldiers. But now, Peter is denying that he even knows Jesus. Was Peter just in shock over what had taken place in the last few hours? Was Peter scared? Was he confused? Had Peter lost hope? More than likely Peter was feeling and experiencing all of these emotions. If he was able to overhear what was going on inside, then he just heard that Jesus was sentenced to death. Had it come to this? The last three years had been quite an adventure. Peter witnessed Jesus healing people, teaching the truths of...
Peter: The Impulsive Rock
by Ron Clarkson
Prayer: Father, we thank you for Easter morning, that morning that your power was displayed thru the resurrection of your Son. The victory of the empty tomb, that is the uniqueness of the Christian message. Father, take us back in our minds eye about 2,000 years. Take us back to the days when Jesus Christ walked the earth and help us walk in the sandals of those who Jesus walked with, talked with, and built his life into. . . the disciples. Show us thru the eyes of one of Christ's friends, one of his leaders, one of his disciples, what it was like in the years and days surrounding that first Easter morning. As I stand here in this...
Peter's Word to the Pastor
by Marvin D. Patterson
Jonah and the Whale - One day, a teacher was talking to her first grade class about whales when a little girl had a question. Little Girl: ''Do whales swallow people?'' Teacher: ''No, even though they are much bigger than a person, they have throat pleats that filter their food of krill and plankton. Little Girl: ''But Mrs. Thurston says Jonah was swallowed by a whale.'' Teacher getting angry: ''Blue whales cannot swallow people.'' Little Girl: ''Well, when I get to heaven I'll just ask Jonah if he was really swallowed by a whale.'' Teacher, still red with anger: ''What if Jonah went to hell?'' Girl: ''Well, then you can ask him.'' A joke about Creation...
Peter the Impetuous (1 of 12)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: When you stop and think about the Apostles you probably have in your mind a picture of great men of God who healed the sick, raised the dead, did great miracles everywhere they went, and exercised faith that was unshakable and perfect – and if you do, you are not thinking about the 12 apostles that followed Jesus! The kind of men that became Jesus' right hand men were very much like you me, Jesus hand picked them and they were quite a motley crew! Studying them will help us appreciate the love God has in picking us to be His followers ... we have many of the same weaknesses that these so called "giants" of the faith did...
1 Peter (13 of 20)
by Robert Dawson
Have you ever been in a situation where you did not respond appropriately or did not know how to respond appropriately? Let me see that hand!! Yes. We have all been there. I remember working for Whitehead Hardware my first year in college loading and unloading trucks and stocking warehouse shelves. I eventually got to the place where I could do other things, like thread pipe, drive the forklift, pull orders and package them for shipping and even make local deliveries for the sales department. One day driving back to the warehouse from deliveries I ran a caution light because I was shuffling through my delivery papers...
Peter's Life of New Beginnings - The Lesson Peter Never Forgot (5 of 10)
by John Barnett
Peter reached the bottom and came to his darkest hour. Alone and unprepared for temptation, he forgot Christ's warning and plunged into waters too deep for him. Drowning in fear, Peter succeeds in denying Jesus firmly and openly three times. But Jesus, who warned him, also prayed for him, and now comes to Peter and restores him, giving Peter a new beginning on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. We have come to Peter's final lesson, the one he never forgot. In fact, to the end of his life he was talking about Christ's wondrous love and forgiveness that restored Peter back into ministry. In his letters Peter spoke of that love...
Overview of I Peter (1 of 20)
by Richard Laue
My intent today is for the Holy Spirit to give you a hunger and thirst to live with me in the next few months in I Peter; not just on Sunday mornings, but through the week as well. After the Gospels and Acts the remainder of the New Testament is made up of twenty-two Epistles, and I would like to show you how these letters sort out and what is the purpose of each one. These letters, when you look closely, quite naturally and easily fall into three parts. 1. THE CHURCH EPISTLES (9) Immediately following Acts the first nine letters are to the churches. They were all written by the Apostle Paul. They all teach and instruct the churches in doctrine...
Peter's Closing Comments (13 of 13)
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: Last week's lesson came from chapter four, (vv. 12-19); dealing with the fiery trials the early Christians were enduring. We talked about the certainty of trials—that will come. We talked about what our attitude should be toward them; and then we discussed how God sometimes uses trials as a tool for chastening (vv. 15-19). Tonight, we will conclude our study of I Peter with chapter five, (vv.1-14) with "Peter's Closing Comments." I have three points to our outline: I. The Role of the Elder II. The Humility of the Believer III. The Threat of the Devil I. THE ROLE OF THE ELDER (VV. 1-4) Let me pause for a minute, and...
Why God? The Story Of James & Peter
by Scott Maze
It is a familiar refrain in our day for many. Something terrible happens and God is questioned at the very least. For others, God is often blamed. ''How could an all powerful and good God NOT prevent tragedy from happening?'' There are 2 men in today's story, both are part of the original 12 disciples of Jesus. One man is saved, while the other dies. Why God? Today's Scripture: About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. 2 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 3 and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of...
From Peter to You
by Jerry Watts
Imagine yourself in the middle of the ocean, the ship taking on water, you have a broken leg, and hope is all but lost. In the middle of your distress and pain, you look up and see a helicopter from the US Navy hovering over to offer help. What do you do? (After you attempt to dance on a broken leg) You let anyone, and everyone know that help is on the way (and you are grateful). Now, superimpose the feelings of that scenario on to the first century readers of Peter's writings. How? We need to have a cursory grasp of the conditions in which the people who first received Peter's writings actually lived. We will not do this through an...
