It is a common thing for people to attribute things to God, whether it's teaching, prophecy, or other occurrences. But what happens when contradictory things get attributed to God? How do we react when two people claim to speak for God but say opposite things? John's call in 1 John is for the church to discern what spirit is speaking before adopting a teaching. Today, Derek talks about how we can discern the spirit behind things.

**Parts of this recording may be difficult to hear because Derek was wearing a mask**

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God is love. This is one of the key values expressed in the book of 1 John as the author urges the readers to hold onto what is true. Hate is easily cultivated in our world, regardless of religious affiliation. But hate should have no place in Christ’s Church. To take it a step further, the author of 1 John reminds the readers that merely claiming to love is not enough. It’s easy to verbally communicate that we love someone or something, but do our actions follow suit? 1 John describes genuine love as costly, and Jesus modeled this as He laid down his life for us.

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Evan brings a special Youth Sunday message this week, join us as we explore 1 John 2:28-3:10. We'll talk about what it means to abide in Christ, practice his way, and the forces that would try to deceive us, all in a kid friendly way!

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None of us likes to be tricked, and so we often live by the mantra, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." But this doesn't serve us well in relationship with Jesus. How can we become people who live by faith without getting tricked? Today, Derek continues our series in 1 John.

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So many of us struggle with remembering who we are and what we have because of relationship with God. Because we forget, we find ourselves stumbling into things that make false promises about who we could be and what we could have. We trade what is real for a lie. But John's command is that we not make that exchange. Today, Derek continues our summer series through the book of 1 John called “Love & Truth”.

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A common thought when it comes to church is “I love Jesus, but not the church”. What is the necessity of the church? How should people relate to fellow believers in the church? Today, Derek continues our summer series through the book of 1 John called “Love & Truth”.

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Why is it so difficult for us to own our faults, flaws, and sin? Whether Christian or not, this seems to be true. In the church, we often struggle with the added, unspoken pressure that we think we aren’t supposed to sin. Certainly, grace is not an invitation to sin more, but are we supposed to be sinless? Today, Derek continues our summer series through the book of 1 John called “Love & Truth”.

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Today we begin our summer sermon series through the book of 1 John called "Love & Truth".

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Many of us have had the experience of feeling stuck in our relationship with God. One of the things that keeps us at a distance from God is sin that weighs us down. But God has given us a way to unburden ourselves from sin - confession. Today Evan finishes our “Hungry For God” series by talking about confession.

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It would probably not be a surprise to know that praising God will result in deeper hunger for God. And when we feel like it, it's not hard to praise God. What's hard is to praise God when we don't want to. We may even think it impossible. Today Derek talks about how to praise God when we don't want to.

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