The Secret Place

This is the final episode in season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year. If you haven't yet, go back to episode 1 "Forever Human and Forever Devine" and join Derek from the beginning of this Christmas season.  

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Jesus' final prayer on Earth to the Father and reveals the incredible truth it holds. That we would be one with Them, Father, Son and Spirit. We are free. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek reflects on the hauntingly beautiful words of the carol, O Come O Come Emmanuel. The overwhelming message that cuts through in this song is "Look Up." Lift your eyes towards heaven because it doesn't matter what situation you're in, the best is yet to come. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek reflects on the powerful words of the carol, O Holy Night. Derek urges us to know that there is nothing that can separate us from God as He is forever bound to His creation through the incarnation of Jesus. He is not the God of abandonment, but the God of grace and relationship. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek reflects on the words of the carol, O Come All Ye Faithful. Through these words Derek explains that God's intent for sending Jesus was not to give us a ticket into heaven, but to reach us in our darkness and declare His desire for a relationship with us.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek reflects on the words of the carol, Silent Night and the idea of unconditional acceptance. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Welcome to season five of The Secret Place, where Derek unpacks the Christmas story and highlights the beautiful carols that we hear at this time of year.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek seeks for a deeper understanding of God's love through the incarnation of Jesus. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks into the Goodness of God. When God's goodness takes residence in our hearts, it becomes an outworking of our lives into the lives of others. God's design is that you would be a expression of His goodness to those around you.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek looks into the union between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and unpacks our inclusion through Jesus. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek continues to look at our origin story and how we stepped away from God through sin.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek takes us back to the Garden of Eden and looks at our origin story and beyond, finding that God had planned to join us on Earth before sin had ever entered the equation. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season four of The Secret Place, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks about the place of our original design and by dwelling in that place, peace and joy automatically flow. The best thought you've ever about yourself, doesn't compare to what God already thinks about you.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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This is Season 4 of The Secret Place. Throughout this season, Derek helps us to better understand our purpose with the Father. He has titles this season; Coming Home.

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek defines what home was always designed to be for us. A safe place, a place where you're not just welcomed, but cherished; a place with God.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:17-23. "...That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come..."

We are the centre of God's focus, He is the Father and we are His children. There's nothing that can be stolen or taken away, it's not an abstract religious idea, it's a living, ever present and conscious reality in you.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:15-16. "For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers."

Who are you praying for at the moment? Prayer unlocks the peace of God, a peace that God Himself enjoys and shares with us. It's eternal, never failing and never ending.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:13-14. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory."

The Holy Spirit gives guarantee to the fact that our divine inheritance is with us. We are with Christ, period. Adam's downfall does not define us, Jesus does.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:7-12. "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding..."

The Father and the Son, together, accomplished something far greater than the pain Jesus experienced on the cross. Jesus did it as us, for us to prove the depth of His love towards us.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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Throughout season three of The Secret Place, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:3-6: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves."

Your adoption as a son or daughter of God was not a chore for God. It was according to the good pleasure of His will. You cannot be separated from God.

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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This is Season 3 of The Secret Place. Throughout this season, Derek is looking deeply at Ephesians 1 and helping us apply Paul's words to our own lives. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek unpacks Ephesians 1:1-2: "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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This is the second episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example."

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek deeper described the meaning of sin and how it truely impacts our spiritual lives. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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This is the fifth episode in a six part series titled "Jesus - Saviour and Example." Go back to "Foundations" to listen to this series from the beginning. 

In this episode of The Secret Place, Derek speaks on how the God of the Universe, humbled Himself to come to Earth as a human, to be the perfect example of us. Jesus experienced every trial and triumph imaginable to man, from the Throne Room of Heaven, to the Throne Room on Earth, to the Throne Room of Hell. 

Derek Peters is the Executive Pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Brisbane, Australia.  To find additional content related to this and other podcasts by Derek Peters, visit The Secret Place website.

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