Because God is love, and Christians abide in God, we must also abide in love. However, every single one of us struggles to love other believers. It’s only when we surrender to God’s love for us that we begin to be free to walk in love toward other...

As has been stated in previous sermons, 1 John has a spiraling structure—revisiting the same themes over and over, each time amplifying them further. In this epistle John has given us moral tests (e.g., Are we obedient to God's word?), social...

Last week, John refuted “antichrists” and their teaching, and helped ensure that his readers - and you and me - would continue to abide in Christ.

This week, we will see that John appeals to 3 aspects of God’s relationship to His People to make his...

Last week, John warned us that the world is passing away, along with its desires. Now, John tells us that we aren't just living in the last days, but the last hour.

And in the last hour, opposition has come in the form of false teachers who...

We saw last week that the identifying mark of a true disciple of Jesus is a person who not only follows Christ's commands, but loves his/her brother or sister. This week, John gives a very strong warning to Christ's disciples not to love the...

We saw last week that we know we are Jesus' disciples if we obey his commands. John will continue to press the issue of assurance of salvation this week, this time connecting following Jesus and love for others.

We learned that our love for...

So far, we've learned that God is light, and has no darkness in him. Further, we saw that Jesus’ blood is sufficient to cleanse all those who confess their sins to God.

It becomes clear from the outset of the letter that Jesus is the Savior –...

We are continuing our new sermon series "Walk this Way" with 1 John 1:5-10 in a sermon called "Walk in the Light."

The Apostle John is responding to the false claims that a believer can live without sin in their lives. We will see...

This week we started our new series through the letters of John called, "Walk this Way."

On Sunday, we will covered 1 John 1:1-4 in a sermon called, "The Joy of Fellowship." Because of our sin, we are alienated from God and each...

This Sunday we had the pleasure of commissioning one short-term team and two families to the mission field.

This sermon goes through the relationship Paul had with the church in Philipi. From this text we see what it means to be a faithful goer and...