What do you gain when God makes you his child? John points us to three things.

John claims that there is only one thing that matters in all of life. What is it and why does it matter so much?

John says we shouldn't love the world or the things in the world, but what does that mean? And why is it such a problem?

How can you know where you stand with God? John's confidence rests on three things.

When God showed his love for us in the life and death of Jesus, an old command became new. And that command is at the heart of what it looks like to follow Jesus.

When we know God through Jesus, we will come to want what he wants and trust what he commands.

God is light. In him there is no darkness. So how can sinners, who have reason to hide in the darkness, know friendship with God in the light? Only through honest confession of sin.

John wrote his letters to help his friends tell the difference between genuine and counterfeit Christianity. But why did John feel the need to do that? And how can you recognize true Christianity?

Psalm 23 has one central theme: The LORD is my shepherd. It is a statement that comforts the people of God, recognizing that God promises to provide for us, to protect us, and to give us what we need most--Himself.

A righteous king--an authority over us who always does what is right--is to our lives what rain or rich soil is to the grass. We were made to depend on such a king for our lives to flourish. This psalm shows us what a righteous king looks like, and how we can serve him.