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We are in week 8 of our study of the book 1st John.  1st John is so appropriate for us today. This week, we are going to get stretched a bit more when we look at the dynamics between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. Direct download link. CONNECT – PHONE: […]

In message 7 of this series, we are reminded of the “dual” message of First John.  There is the doctrinal message, and the also the intense love John had to those who stayed, and challenged them so they can deepen their faith and stand against those who left the church. This week, starting with 1 […]

We continue today with Part 6 in the series of 1st John.  1st John is a complete letter.  Even though we look at a few verses every Sunday, we must not forget to look at the whole.  We start at 1 John 2:7 with the word “Beloved”.  “Beloved” or “favorite”.  This sets up for what […]

Conviction… Though it is hard to hear and hard to process, when it is Holy Spirit conviction it makes us want to stay.  We often mistake what the Holy Spirit’s conviction is and what condemnation is.  Condemnation is from us and the enemy, not the Holy Spirit. It is conviction that helps us to make […]

In last week’s message on the book of 1 John, the 5 “IF’s” pertain to how we believe God to be.  We need to come to an understand of God dealing withour sin nature.  man’s sin nature exists today, and to the very end.  It needs to be dealt with.  In Chapter 2, John continues […]

In last weeks message in this series on First John, we saw that John made a declaration of who Christ is.  Because John reestablished his apostolic authority, he could boldly speak who Christ is… With brotherly love. In this week’s message, we moved from the proclamation of who Christ is, to foundational instruction. In this […]

Last week, we had an introduction to the book of 1 John.  This week, we started the verse by verse study.  1 John is an interesting letter.  It starts differently from other letters in the New Testament. John Starts with one long sentence establishing the authority he is writing about.  Listen here to Part 2 […]

This is the introduction to the series “First John – No Middle Ground” In the next several weeks, Pastor Jason will be teaching, verse by verse on the book of 1st John.   This week is the introduction to the book.  It is to answers the “who”, “when”, “where”, and “why” questions. In 1st John, “Love” […]