Common Sense Conversations

John has been showing how Satan uses deception. Now John will show what it means to be truly saved. But what does that mean? How do we know if we are truly saved? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

I continue in the passage from 1st John where he is warning them about the deception of the devil. This podcast will continue to look into how Satan is still using deception as his greatest tool against mankind.

John is going to share with the young believers the importance of not being deceived. The question comes to mind about our current state; are we deceived? This podcast will look at this question.

In this passage John will begin to discuss the tool of deception used by the enemy. One of the ways that the believers in John’s day, as well as us today, are deceived, is by sin. This podcast will discuss how the deception of misunderstanding sin is harming us.

Often we measure everything in life by doing. Yet when it comes to the Christian life, Jesus taught us everything is upside down from what culture teaches us. This podcast will look at the passage in 1st John 3:2-3 and see it’s more about being with Jesus than doing things for Jesus.

John talks about one of the blessings we get from our salvation—being called God’s children. But what does that really mean? This podcast will discuss how important that is and what that means for the Christ-follower daily.

John is going to talk with the young believers about God’s love. But have we made God’s love conditional due to overpreaching/teaching about the love of God? Are we truly in awe of the love of God the way we should be? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

John has talked a lot about abiding, as have I. But do we really know how to abide? Do we know what abiding in Jesus really is or means? That’s what will be looked at and discussed in this podcast.

John continues talking with these young believers telling them the importance of abiding in the Word and the Holy Spirit to recognize false teaching. This same message applies to us today. Am I abiding in the Word? Would I recognize false teaching? That’s what this podcast will discuss.

In John’s Gospel in chapter 15, Jesus talks about the Vine and the branch and abiding. John now talks again to these believers he is writing to about the importance of abiding in Christ in light of the false teachers he just mentioned to look out for.