Category Archives: 1 John
April 29, 2012 Love Is Not Natural
4.29.12 1 John 3:15-18 You have no natural skills or abilities to live the Christian life. You are unqualified. The Christian life is traveling upstream against your natural inclinations and instincts. imagine a coach going to a boy as slow as molasses and saying I want you to be my track star. You start in [...]
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December 6, 2009 The Falling and Rising of Many
download 12.6.09 young Christian named Alan read the Sermon on the Mount it made him feel depressed because he knew that he fell far short of what was described there he told his pastor his pastor told him to attend a class advice on how to live the Christian life The pastor said he needed [...]
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May 3, 2009 When You Sin
download 5.3.09 John 13:10 “A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” When you first repented and believed you were forgiven of your sins: washed but as we sin, get our feet dirty, they must [...]
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November 30, 2008 The Love of God
download 11.30.08 1 John 4:8-10 At Christmas we celebrate the Advent or Coming of Jesus the message of the coming of Jesus is that God loves us the sending of Jesus shows/makes visible to us God’s hidden love (9) “God is love” means that all God’s actions are loving all the time (8) Most of [...]
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February 11, 2007 The Weakness of God (I)
download 2.11.07 I begin a new series today: The Weakness of God Have you seen that title around church for the last week? If you were not familiar with that phrase and did not know that Paul himself said it you might have even been offended by it. We think God in terms of power. [...]
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