IS CHRIST KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR?  Jesus instructed the apostle John to send a letter to the church of Laodicea, rebuking them for their lukewarm commitment. He reminded them that He disciplines those that He loves and called them to repentance and renewed zeal. Yet after His stern words of discipline, He humbly described Himself

DOES GODS FORGIVENESS TEACH US TO FEAR HIM? The psalmist asked a rhetorical question of the Lord, that begs an answer from each of us. If the Lord kept record of all our sins, our impure thoughts, motives and actions, if He decided to judge us according to that record, who could stand? The answer?

DIRECTIONAL VISION MUST BE AGREED UPON The Lord gave the prophet Amos a list of proverbial questions to ask of Israel and Judah. Each of them beg an obvious negative response. The first proverb concerned their walk with God. The Lord essentially asked, Can you claim to have My presence when you walk so contrary

WORSHIP THAT TURNED TO WITNESS The apostle John was exiled to the Isle of Patmos for preaching the gospel. There, on a Sunday, the revelation of Jesus Christ came to him while he was in worship. The early church fathers reported that John was in a cave on Patmos when the Lord spoke to him.

DO YOU BUILD OTHERS UP IN THE FAITH? Jude, the brother of James and the half-brother of the Lord Jesus, though he called himself his slave, wrote this little letter. He called on believers to build each other up. This in contrast to those he warned against who were busy creating divisions among believers. Unlike

ON SOWING AND STARTING OVER AGAIN Psalm 126 described the mixture of tears and joy that the Jewish exiles experienced upon their return to Jerusalem. They were happy to return, but they had lost everything. Yet, they had seed and they once again had fields and they had the physical strength and knowledge to plant.

THE REAL CHRISTMAS DOCTRINE When Christianity was barely 50 years old, already false doctrines were being taught concerning Jesus. One of those false doctrines was that Jesus didnt have a real body, but only a spiritual one. They denied the true doctrine that Jesus, the Son of God, had come in the flesh. The apostle

KNOWING THAT CHRIST HAS COME In his first epistle, the apostle John wrote of what we can know because of Christs coming. For as John wrote in his gospel, Christ is the Word made flesh (John 1:14). If you want to know God, look to Jesus. He is God revealed to us in the flesh.

THIS IS REAL LOVE If we have any claim to love, it originates with God, who first loved us. This love is most fully demonstrated in the sending of His Son, Jesus, as the sacrifice for our sins, dying on the cross for us. For in the cross we see the intersection of Gods love

ABIDING WE NO LONGER MAKE A PRACTICE OF SINNING John here describes the fruit of being born again, namely, that those with Gods life in them, no longer make a practice of sin. Sin is no longer their habit. This is not the precondition of salvation. For salvation is by grace alone through faith alone