Pastor Timothy exhorts us: Oh Ventura, pray through this! Ponder the needs in our midst, and as you savor God’s love for you and then love others, discover how your sense of meaning and satisfaction grows in God’s glory and for other’s good. How do you know you will do this? Our Triune God has […]

Jonathan Wilwerding shows that the complete love of God includes us. 1 John 4:11-14

Pastor Timothy shows us that 1. God is the source 2. God Himself is the origin of love 3. God has put his love on display to the world 1 John 4:7-10

Pastor Timothy exhorts us: If you primarily listen to the world, you are from the world, you speak from the world. 1 John 4:4-6

Pastor Timothy warns us to test the spirits. Because the spirit of antichrist – through people – denies essential realities about Jesus, but the Holy Spirit – through Christians – confesses Jesus. 1 John 4:1-3

Ben Jacques shows us that we can be assured. Only God can condemn and we who abide in Him are not condemned. 1 John 3:19-24

Pastor Timothy shows that God’s love shines through Jesus, his Son, and his sacrifice for us. God’s love will shine through us, his children, and our sacrificial love for one another. Exercising practical, self-sacrificial love reveals that we are God’s children. 1 John 3:9-18

Pastor Timothy challenges us: if you pick and choose the things you want to believe about God. And you pick and choose the commands to follow, then you can’t say you actually believe Jesus or the Bible. You believe in yourself – which is the same way the Devil lives. 1 John 3:4-8

Pastor Timothy encourages us to focus on the kind of love God has for us in making us his children. Listen to your Father, ponder your Savior and anticipate his return. He will be faithful to perfect you. In light of these realities, purify yourselves like Jesus is pure. 1 John 3:1-3

Pastor Timothy exhorts us to continue to abide in Jesus. May our assurance grow in knowing we are a child of God. Meditate on and live in the hope of seeing the Savior face to face. Rejoice in every act of righteousness the Spirit works through you. 1 John 2:28-29