Published on June 11, 2009
by Eric Landry
Starting this Sunday and continuing through the rest of the summer is our new sermon series in First Peter, "Exile." Twice in the first chapter of his letter, the apostle Peter calls his readers exiles. For those of us living comfortably in the southern California exurbs, exile has been a difficult concept to understand. But now that the bedrocks of our comfortable existence (family, economy, finances, health, peace) are being shaken, we have quickly begun to understand the bittersweet tension between satisfaction and longing, which is so characteristic of the Christian's life in this world.
Take time to invite a friend to consider their own exile with you and be introduced to the man Jesus, who was himself exiled for our sins but has now entered into the heavenly city as our forerunner.
