This week's reflection is based on "'Free" by Florence and the Machine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CT7jS_Vjg)

For the next five weeks, each sermon is going to be inspired by a song. This week's song is "Found You" by Silicone Boone.

Found You, by Silicone Boone (Official Lyric Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSMPPgrHy8

This morning we took a close look at "The Lord's Prayer," Jesus's example of how we should pray.

This week we looked at the final words in 1st John. We considered... are we supposed to have assurance of eternal life? How do we understand prayer? What are we supposed to do when we see a brother or sister sin? What is the "sin that leads to death"? And why does John finish with a warning against idols?

Every week we confess through the Apostle's Creed "Christ will come again to judge the living in the dead." In this week's passage, John offers help to those of us who may have anxiety about that day.

1 John tells us two essentials we need in order to be the kind of church Christ came to build: orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

This week in 1st John: what love is (and isn't).

John said earlier in the letter that "if we say we are with sin, the truth is not in us." But in our passage this week, he says "whoever is born of God does not sin." We considered: how do we reconcile these statements?

We continued our study in 1st John with reflection on two commands: (1) Do not love the world or anything in the world, and (2) See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. We considered how these commands are sometimes misunderstood, and how to take them to heart.