St. Peter's Fireside

In the next instalment of our series entitled The Gospel of Mark, Alastair Sterne helps us understand that the Church is not a movement. The Church is an agent of the movement that Jesus started, and the only way to remain a part of this movement is to remain with Him.

Following Jesus is hard, but it's not complicated. His yoke is easy and His burden is light. Listen in on this instalment of our Gospel of Mark series as Alastair Sterne explains how the Sabbath is meant to be for those who follow Jesus.

Check out the next instalment in our series The Gospel of Mark. In this sermon, Roger Revell helps us understand how Jesus is the ultimate example of commitment and love.

Listen in to the latest sermon from our series entitled The Gospel of Mark. In this sermon, Alastair Sterne explores the depths of Jesus' grace, how scandalous it was for His time, and what it means for us.

As we continue to dive into the Gospel of Mark, we're finding that Jesus' authority goes way beyond healing physical needs. Listen in as Alastair Sterne helps us understand what Jesus saw as humanity's deepest need.

Listen in to this week's instalment of our series on the Gospel of Mark. Alastair Sterne helps us understand why desolate places aren't always negative spaces. They were actually quite important to the ministry of Jesus.

In the third week of our series entitled The Gospel of Mark, Alastair Sterne explores what it means to be called by Jesus into a life that follows His ways.

We're in the second week of our brand new series The Gospel of Mark. This week Alastair Sterne takes us through the second half of Mark's prologue, and explains what the doctrine of the Trinity is, what it means about Jesus, what it should mean to us.

In part one of our new series The Gospel of Mark, Alastair Sterne unpacks who Mark says Jesus is, and how Jesus' ministry affects some of the current cultural narratives.

In the final week of our series entitled "Weaklings," Alastair Sterne explains how weakness can be considered a gift from the Lord, and how Paul's famous thorn in his side may be such a gift.

In our third week exploring the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians, Alida Oegema explains how weakness should be encouraging to the Christian because it better describes the reality of our lives. Christianity isn't the "utopian outlier." It is messy, yet filled with hope.

In our next instalment of Weaklings, Roger Revell takes us through 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 to explore what it means to carry the message of Christ from a place of weakness.

In the first week of our new series entitled Weaklings, Pastor Alastair Sterne explores how our greatest weakness is our greatest strength.

In this final instalment of our series on the Psalms, Roger Revell explores Psalm 27 to glean truth about our confidence in Christ and the hope that He gives us.

In this next instalment of our series on the Psalms, Alida Oegema takes us through Psalm 63. She explores what it means to see our circumstances in the light of who God is and what He has done for us.

Are you okay with asking for help? In this week of our Psalms series, Roger Revell dives into Psalm 59 to help us understand that it is indeed okay to cry out when life seems overwhelming.

What does it take to love others and seek justice? Maybe it isn't loving or serving more. In the first sermon of our new sermon series, Psalms, Pastor Alastair Sterne walks us through Psalm 67. In this Psalm we find out that loving others and seeking justice is counter-intuitive. How so? We "behold" and then pour out.

In the last week of the series, The Table Of Undeserving Friends, Pastor Alastair Sterne walks us through Luke 10.25-37. In this passage we discover that hospitality has everything to do with salvation. We shouldn't ask "Who is my neighbour?" but "To whom must I become a neighbour?"

Unfortunately the sermon from this week was not recorded. The transcript is available at stpetersfireside.org/transcripts/touf-jn252015.pdf

In the nineth week of the series, The Table Of Undeserving Friends, Pastor Alastair Sterne walks us through Genesis 18.1-15. In this passage we discover the importance of being present and willing to be inconvenienced for the sake of welcoming strangers. We apologize, the introduction to this sermon was not recorded. The manuscript is below: In our series, The Table Of Undeserving Friends, we’ve been looking at the vastness of God’s welcoming grace. The guests at his table are diverse and unique. We’ve been listening to some of their stories that we might learn more and more about the depths of God’s grace and how we might become people who welcome others as Christ has welcomed us. Today I want to look at a more practical, but-not-so-normal instruction found in the Scriptures. Hebrews Chapter 13:2, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” This seems a pretty straight forward instruction. Show hospitality to strangers, welcome them, because th