Arbor Church

This week, Ryan returns to the pulpit as we continue our journey through 1 John. We’re taking it slow and in fact today

Abide.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear.

– 1 John 4:18 (NET)

This week, Alison teaches from 1 John 4, featuring a conch, and a sea slug, and the long, spiraling journey to perfect

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains

– 1 John 2:24 (NET)

This week, Scott Hetherington teaches from 1 John 2, and its strange warnings about “last hours” and “antichrists”

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

– 1 John 3:11 (NET)

This week, Garrett Shelp explores 1 John 3:11–24, where John highlights a love that’s deeper than being nice—a love that began our journey, meets us in the dark, and finds us wherever we are.

This week, John turns a corner and names something profound—not just what we’ve left behind or who we are, but what’s being formed within us: a new identity, a new source, a new life.

As we move through this letter we get three windows into what John wants us to see about the world, ourselves, and the hope that can reshape us.

Ryan continues our summer series on life with God, shared together. This week, 1 John takes us a little deeper, moving from John’s personal experience of Jesus to address the questions that naturally arise when we hear words like experience, encounter, shared life, and fellowship.

We’re kicking off a brand new summer series: The Light We Live In. Over the coming months, we’ll journey slowly and reflectively through the letter of 1 John, allowing its ancient pastoral wisdom to not only inform us, but to form us. In this opening message, Pastor Ryan invites us to return to the heart of our faith — life with God, shared together — as we begin this transformative walk through John’s letter.