All Sermons in 1 John

(Text Only) Title:  The Outworking of Love, Part Three In the past two weeks, we’ve taken time to establish the following: 1.  Christ’s death was the ultimate outpouring of love for his chosen people. 2.  Believer’s are called to a special sacrificial love to each other. Today I want to put rubber to road and…

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(Text Only) Title: How to Make Better Decisions Show of hands:  How many of you want to know how to make better decisions?  The first step is to have a grasp on who we really are, and what’s ticking inside us.  Once we acknowledge that, we can begin to make better decisions. Years ago I…

(Text Only) Title:  Testing the Spirits Last week we spent some time looking at motivation.  Namely:  what causes us to make the decisions that we make?  The reason I wanted to pause and ponder verse 24 last week was because this week is where John tells us how to put that into action.   The…

(Text Only) Title:  Falling on Deaf Ears I am often perplexed at the political and social agenda of many Christians in our country.  What I mean to say is not that I necessarily disagree with believers fighting for their values and beliefs, that’s what a citizen in a democratic republic ought to do.  I generally…

(Text Only) Title:  Real Love I think you’d all agree with me this morning that the word “love” is one that is tossed around a bit too freely in our society today.  Last Fall, when I preached a sermon on I John 2:15  (“Do not love the world, or the things in the world.  If…

(Text Only) Title: How to See God Often when discussing faith, not just my faith, but the very concept of faith itself, I have met several people who don’t subscribe to any faith, to any confession of God at all.  For them, most often the issue is a lack of proof. Essentially they say, “You…

(Text Only) Title: Perfect Love, Part One We have now been in the book of 1st John for 11 months.  I preached the first sermon on I John on last November 23rd, just after the Thanksgiving holiday.  So after a year in 1st John you may have picked up on the fact that one of…

(Text Only) Title: Perfect Love, Part Two  Last week we began by talking about this concept of “Perfect Love” We defined Perfect Love in this way: I.  What is Perfect Love? We then talked about the first effect of perfect love.  We said that because of the love being perfected in us, we should have…

(Text Only) Title: There Are No Optional Commands  In the Gospel of John 14:15, John records Jesus saying something very simple, and yet also very profound:  “If you love me, keep my commandments.”  Now, I don’t see any evidence, either in the Gospel of John, or in any of John’s other books in scripture, or…

(Text Only) Title: A Subtle Rebuttal One of the neat things about John’s writing is that John often talks, particularly in I John about the idea of “abiding”, to remain.  I’ve found, in the year that we have been studying I John that the more I “remain” in the study of this letter, the more…

(Text Only) Title: Not Burdensome??? Do you ever think your Bible has a misprint? I spend a fair amount of time in this book every week, and I admit, every now and then I’ll read something and think…now…that can’t be right. And I’ll scramble online for another English translation, then I’ll look at the Greek,…