SPB Sermons || 5 || Contending For Hope || 1 Peter 1:22-25 || Life in the Ordinary || Rev Andrew

St Pauls and St Barnabas Belfast · Feb 15, 2026 · 29m

Part 5 of the “Contending for Hope” series reflects on 1 Peter 1:22–25 on Transfiguration Sunday, drawing on the mountain-top glory of Matthew 17 and what it means to walk back down into the ordinary valleys of daily life. This episode explores how the Christian life is not sustained by moments of spiritual intensity but by the living and enduring Word of God, calling us to love one another deeply, to remember what truly lasts, and to live faithfully in the everyday as people shaped by a hope that does not fade.