We can’t bond with the way the world does things and have a bond with God. Now when I think, Why not? it is because we believe we have our hate or love for the world under control; and don’t we always think we have things under control, until there not. But the reality is, even under control hate is the antithesis to God. The world is an antithesis to God. How can I love that which hates my God and Savior?

We can’t bond with the way the world does things and have a bond with God. Now when I think, Why not? it is because we believe we have our hate or love for the world under control; and don’t we always think we have things under control, until there not. But the reality is, even under control hate is the antithesis to God. The world is an antithesis to God. How can I love that which hates my God and Savior?

The Bible reveals so much: who is God, what is He like, what is life about, where are we going, good vs evil – and yet with all there is to know and learn, it kind of comes down to what we learn in the kindergarten of spiritual life: love God, love people, be like Jesus. Whatever you know or don’t know, just be sure you are doing that. And when we miss that mark, we have an Advocate.

The Bible reveals so much: who is God, what is He like, what is life about, where are we going, good vs evil – and yet with all there is to know and learn, it kind of comes down to what we learn in the kindergarten of spiritual life: love God, love people, be like Jesus. Whatever you know or don’t know, just be sure you are doing that. And when we miss that mark, we have an Advocate.

God’s forgiveness is there for us when we fall, but not there so we can jump safely into fellowship with the darkness. Turn on the light. Build a bond with God, His word, and His people who speak His word into you. Our lying heart needs that.

God’s forgiveness is there for us when we fall, but not there so we can jump safely into fellowship with the darkness. Turn on the light. Build a bond with God, His word, and His people who speak His word into you. Our lying heart needs that.

The word fellowship used in the New Testament is koinonia. While that is a Greek work, it is a Greek word one might actually hear today. Probably that and agape, for love, are the two Greek words a lot of Christians will have heard. Fellowship in the New Testament is not really about a get-together as much as it is conveying an intimate, mutual participation in a life shared with one another.

The word fellowship used in the New Testament is koinonia. While that is a Greek work, it is a Greek word one might actually hear today. Probably that and agape, for love, are the two Greek words a lot of Christians will have heard. Fellowship in the New Testament is not really about a get-together as much as it is conveying an intimate, mutual participation in a life shared with one another.

Today we are beginning a 12-message study of 1 John. It is called first, because it is the first of three letters he sends. It is hard put an exact date on 1 John, but with what we have most put it around A.D. 90. And that would roughly be the age of John.

Today we are beginning a 12-message study of 1 John. It is called first, because it is the first of three letters he sends. It is hard put an exact date on 1 John, but with what we have most put it around A.D. 90. And that would roughly be the age of John.