Category: Bible Study
Psalms Introduction Part 1
The book of Psalms is one of the most beloved books of the bible. This is one book you do not need to give people directions to locate in the bible. Everyone knows how to get there by simply opening their bibles, they naturally open up to the book of Psalms being at the center […]
How to Enjoy a Bible Study for All It’s Worth
We read the bible differently than we read any other book. One reason is because of it’s sheer size. We can’t read the bible in one sitting. It’s too much to take in. Sometimes an entire chapter or even a short verse can be too much to take in during one sitting. We have to […]
Loving in Truth – 2 John
Tonight we start a new letter written by John to a Christian lady. In it we will have many of the truths we learned in 1 John repeated and demonstrated. “This epistle is more remarkable for the spirit of Christian love which it breathes than for anything else. It contains scarcely anything that is not […]
A Cloud of Witnesses – 1 John 5:6-13
Last week we talked about four birthmarks identifying the children of God. The children of God are marked by: A belief that Jesus is the Christ. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father. (John 5:1) A love for all those born of God. (John 5:1) A love for God the Father (1 John 5:2) […]
Love Casts Out Fear – 1 John 4:13-21
I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.” – Blaise Pascal I ran across this quote by Blaise Pascal while I was trying to remember something else he had once said that I had read and it made me laugh because this is so true. I […]
Love is of God – 1 John 4:7-12
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, […]
Walking With A Clear Conscience – 1 John 3:19-24
19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: 20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. 21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and […]
Sibling Love – 1 John 3:11-18
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, […]
Who’s Your Daddy? 1 John 2:28 – 3:3
And now little children… Once again, John refers to those he is writing to tenderly as little children, teknia, is once again the Greek word used here, meaning infants, darlings (Christian converts). John moves from speaking about those who have fallen away to those he is sure know the truth. “I write to you not […]
