All Sermons in 1 John

(Text Only) Title: Who Do You Allow To Teach You? I usually prepare my sermons on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons.  I’ve shared before that I like to do this because it gives me the rest of the week to look back over the sermon, make changes, and prayerfully consider how I might make the message…

(Text Only) Title: Heavy Theology with Pastor John  Get your thinking caps on, God’s about to blow you mind. I.  “My Little Children…” I know we’ve looked at this before, but I just want to re-iterate again that when John uses this term to address his audience he is not being derogatory or superior or…

(Text Only) Title: The Greatest Question Ever Asked (Part One) By now, most of you know me.  Most of you know my preaching style, my likes, my passions, and my pet peeves.  Any of you who have heard 20 or more of my sermons know that one thing I absolutely can’t stand about Christianity in…

(Text Only) Title: The Greatest Question Ever Asked (Part Two) Two weeks ago, before the Easter holiday, we began looking at 3:1 and I offered a challenge to you, and that challenge, you may recall, was to be able to join John in his exclamation when he remarks, “What manner of love the Father has…

(Text Only) Title: The Greatest Question Ever Asked (Part Three) Today we arrive at the conclusion of our three part series based on John’s exclamation in I John 3:1.  Again, my hope and prayer (and the reason I’ve taken three sermons to preach half of one verse) is that I desire for you to more…

(Text Only) Title: Two Good Questions I.  When are we children of God? There is something deeply theological and immensely important in what John says in verse 2.  I could attempt to wax poetic about it all day, but let me instead, turn to a man much greater than myself, and let us listen to…

(Text Only) Title: Sin, Law, and Abiding I.  Sin is Lawlessness (Read v. 4) This is one of the few points in I John where John makes a reference to “Law” or the Old Testament in general.   (This has lent significant weight to the idea that this specific group of people that John is…

(Text Only) Title: Another Zinger From John Last week we looked at verses 4,5,6 and a pattern emerged.  We saw that the teaching in verses 4 and 5 were very straight-forward and easy to comprehend, but the last verse, verse 6 provided some really interesting discussion because John said something that seemed a bit revolutionary…

(Text Only) Title: Two Foundations (Part One) Today we will be looking at part one of a two part sermon dealing with John’s profound expansion of the idea of God’s love.  As I have done countless times before, I began by trying to write a sermon containing both ideas, a sermon focusing on verses 10-15,…

(Text Only) Title: Two Foundations (Part Two) I know it’s been three weeks since we were last in I John and I want to bring us back up to speed concerning the content and flow of John’s letter.  Starting in chapter three, the focus of John’s letter begins a slight shift.  Up until this point,…

(Text Only) Title:  The Outworking of Love, Part One As we looked at in the last two sermons covering chapter 3 of 1st John, the author has shifted the focus slightly from our relationship with Christ, to our love for Christ being poured out into our relationship with others. Today we will look at the…

(Text Only) Title:  The Outworking of Love, Part Two Last week we looked at the example, what God, in his love (action) did for us (the elect).  Today we will deal with the “What.”  Namely what this means for us.  Today we will not be looking at the “What then” question or the “How” question. …