A study of 1 John 4:14-21, where John says that perfect love casts out fear. Pastor Robert Rohlin makes the point with a burning house. Nobody wants to run into one, but if the people you love are inside, you go in anyway, because love is stronger than fear. He points to Polycarp, who at the end of his life would not deny the Master who had never once let him down. Then he brings it home, arguing that a Christian household ought to be a safe place where love and listening outweigh criticism, and that love has to be shown in tone and action and not only in words. The passage closes where the message closes, with the reason any of it is possible: we love Him because He first loved us.

Pastor Dale Thornton and his wife Barbara served as missionaries spent 40 years as misisonaries to Taiwan. They saw God provide in marvelous ways to be able to plant churches there. He shares their journey and encourages us from Acts 1-4-9.

Pastor Robert Rohlin leads into a an examination of a broken chronology in 1 John 3-11-17 and also discusses the nature of a Christian's 3 great enemies.

A study of 1 John 4:1-6 on testing the spirits. John tells believers not to believe every spirit, because many false prophets have gone out into the world, and then he gives the test itself. Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every one that does not is not. Pastor Robert Rohlin works through what that means practically for anything preached, published, or posted in Christ's name. He also lands on the promise in verse 4, that greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. If you have wondered how to tell sound teaching from the counterfeit, this message gives you John's own measuring stick.

Pastor Robert Rohlin leads into a an examination of a broken chronology in 1 John 3:11-17 and also discusses the nature of a Christian's 3 great enemies.

A study of 1 John 3:11-17 that puts Cain and Christ side by side. Cain murdered his brother because his own deeds were evil and his brother's were righteous, and John uses him as the picture of what hatred really is. Pastor Robert Rohlin follows John's blunt logic that whoever hates his brother is a murderer, which is the same ground Jesus took in the Sermon on the Mount. Against that stands Christ, who laid down His life for us and set the standard for what love actually costs. The passage ends in the most practical place possible, asking how the love of God can be in a man who sees his brother in need and shuts his heart against him.