Stepping out in faith…
Have you ever noticed how Satan questions you about your past? He often reminds you of the mistakes you've made and that you don't deserve the peace and joy that God has to offer. God will take you as you are. When we can't release the guilt of our past, it keeps us from loving …
Human nature leads us to sin. Even when we don’t want to admit it and we make excuses for our indiscretions. Let’s take a look at what the apostle John says about sin. 4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared in order …
This week's sermon continues in the book of 1 John. If you want to start at the beginning of the book go here and start from the beginning of our sermon series. Here we go into chapter 3... 1 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called …
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from …
Faith lived out in family can look different for each of us. Family life gets messy sometimes. We all have our dysfunctions, but no matter what our dysfunctions are, we’re still family and somehow that overrules dysfunction. We can get defensive when someone crosses a member of our family. This is what John, the apostle, …
John writes 3 letters to the churches he’s served. He shares with the churches what he has learned from God. If you want to learn who God is, pay attention to what he said about himself. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him …
Two of the most difficult things to get straight in life are love and God. The two can’t be separated. To love the right way we have to be right with God and to deal with God the right way, we have to learn to love the right way. For John’s instruction to the churches …
17 ”Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. 18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.”Acts 3:17-18 Peter is speaking to those who had gathered to hear about this Jesus that they had condemned on a …
I continually find things in the Bible that I never fully understood, no matter how many times I’ve read the passage. For instance, the parable about the ten virgins in Matthew 25. I understood that it was about us being prepared for Christ’s return. But I don’t think I fully understood what that entailed. I’ve …
We all have faith in something. When you sit down in a chair, do you examine it first to see if it’s sturdy enough to hold you or do you just sit down with faith that it’ll do what it’s supposed to do? Do you take the medicine you got at the pharmacy having faith …
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