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Often we can be tempted to diminish how dangerous false teaching is. For John this was not an option. He wants to encourage believers to remain anchored to the truth they have heard from the beginning. He desires for all believers to have an abiding walk with ...

Usually we continue teaching verse by verse regardless of the holiday, with only a few exceptions. There are times that the passage and the holiday do not seem to fit well together. Then there are times, like today, when we are studying love the day after Vale...

Each time we take the Lord’s Supper we study it and focus on what we are about to remember and participate in. God’s Word is living and active and as we approach these amazing truths He has something fresh for us. At the Lord’s Supper we are called to remember...

As we study through First John God’s desire for believers to abide in Him becomes abundantly clear. He wants us to walk in fellowship with Him in the light and to be honest about what breaks our fellowship with Him. Sin brings us back to the darkness and takes...

Love can seem like such a simple topic and one that everyone can agree with. We hear so much in the world today about the need for everyone to show more love. The problem is the love the world calls us to is never defined. God’s truth, on the other hand, is ve...

Last week we saw how deceptive our own hearts are in trying to convince us that we are not abiding with Jesus. God gave us truth that is meant to reassure, and tranquilize our hearts. God is greater than our hearts and fully knows us. He knows our failures and...

Throughout the book of 1 John, we have been warned about false teachers who have left the truth and are not in fellowship with the apostles anymore. This has weighed heavy on John’s heart. He wants all believers to walk in an abiding relationship with Jesus an...

Throughout this section in 1 John we have been encouraged, reminded and commanded to love. Each time the anchoring thought has been God’s great love for us that is shown through Jesus. The entire emphasizes is not how much we can love God, but how much He has ...

It really is hard to try and imagine the emotions of Jesus’ apostles and disciples as the dawn broke on Easter Sunday. Of course, they did not know it would be Easter Sunday. In In Luke 24 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went out early in ...

1 John 3:11 NAS95 (11) For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; 1 John 4:21 NAS95 (21) And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also. Througho...

1 John 5:4-5 NAS95 (4) For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.(5) Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? Last week we finished on t...

1 John 5:1; 5 ESV (1)  Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of Him. (5)  Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of G...

Last week we saw four different testimonies that all point to Jesus. The first three testimonies were the water of Jesus’ baptism, the blood of the cross, and the Holy Spirit. All three are in perfect unity in testifying who Jesus is and what He accomplished. ...

We can come to know something through experience. For instance, I have come to know through experience that my dog will chew any dog bed that I give her. This has become valuable information and changed what I give her to lay on. Then we can know something as ...

I admire someone who can share what is on their mind with very few words. 2 John is a tiny letter; it has less than 300 words in the Greek and most likely was written on a single sheet of papyrus. Yet, this small letter has important truths for us to see. John...

Matthew 26:26-30 ESV (26)  Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”(27)  And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, saying, “Drin...

I am always amazed at how prone we are to take a simple truth and miss the heart of it by carrying it too far. In 2 John, John warned the church not to accept false teachers and not to show them hospitality. He did not want the church participating in their fa...

When I’ve had the privilege to fill in, I have been teaching from 1 Chronicles. I know we are a verse-by-verse teaching church, so I need to warn you this study in Chronicles is different in pace and style than what Kyle has been doing through John's letters....

Last week we covered chapters 11 and 12. Today chapter 13. 1 Chronicles 11:1 (NASB95) 1 Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. I’ll remind you that Chronicles is a book meant to give hope. Last we...