1. 1 John 4:15-21: Staying In Love

    book
    10/14/22
    14 mins
    read
    By Erick Sorensen
    The love mentioned in 1 John 4:15-21 fourteen times (!) is a love that needs no apology but is determined at all times to sacrifice for the other.
    1 John 4:15-21: Staying In Love

  2. We Cannot Serve God and Mammon

    book
    10/11/22
    14 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    We can appreciate what we have received from God, we can receive it all as free gift, but only when we stop investing in fool's gold.
    We Cannot Serve God and Mammon

  3. 1 John 4:7-14: Love, self-hate, and the search for God

    book
    10/07/22
    19 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
    1 John 4:7-14: Love, self-hate, and the search for God

  4. 1 John 4:1-6: The Only True Confession

    book
    09/30/22
    10 mins
    read
    By Kelsi Klembara
    Do you confess Christ as God in the flesh, born, died, and raised to new life for you? Any answer of yes will do
    1 John 4:1-6: The Only True Confession

  5. 1 John 3: 13-24: The Given Life

    book
    09/23/22
    14 mins
    read
    By Bob Hiller
    Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.
    1 John 3: 13-24: The Given Life

  6. John 3:1-12: Doppelgangers of Jesus

    book
    09/16/22
    18 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    Hope is found precisely while we’re dead.
    John 3:1-12: Doppelgangers of Jesus

  7. Go Home Justified

    book
    09/14/22
    32 mins
    read
    By John Bombaro
    It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
    Go Home Justified

  8. 1 John 2:25-29: The Promise He Made to Us

    book
    09/09/22
    10 mins
    read
    By John W. Hoyum
    When God makes promises, he is incapable of not keeping them.
    1 John 2:25-29: The Promise He Made to Us

  9. 1 John 2:15-24: Antichrist Destroying Faith in the Promise

    book
    09/02/22
    7 mins
    read
    By Daniel Emery Price
    The smallest amount of Holy Spirit-created faith defeats every antichrist belief we hold.
    1 John 2:15-24: Antichrist Destroying Faith in the Promise

  10. Our Dissident Identity

    book
    08/29/22
    19 mins
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    By John Bombaro
    Being the baptized just may be the last, great resistance.
    Our Dissident Identity

  11. 1 John 2:12-14: The Problem of Finding an 'Authentic Self'

    book
    08/26/22
    18 mins
    read
    By Bruce Hillman
    There is no true “self” apart from God. Anything so surmised is caught up in the meaninglessness that is death.
    1 John 2:12-14: The Problem of Finding an 'Authentic Self'

  12. 1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars

    book
    08/19/22
    17 mins
    read
    By Luke Kjolhaug
    Walking in the light doesn't entail a spotless moral record but rather an honest appraisal of who we are.
    1 John 2:1-11: Lovers and Liars
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