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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Spirit, Water and the Blood   1 John 5:1-12 We continue as we are coming to the close of the study that we started on the non-Pauline letters—letters that were not written by Paul. So this is the last one, the letter written by John, who also wrote the Gospel of John. He wrote three letters, and here we come to the first letter, and we close our study with that before we go to the Christmas story starting next week. I wanted to close our study on the doctrines that we began several weeks ago, focusing on how our doctrines and our faith are rooted in the divinity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and He is God, and He has always been God, and He is eternally the Son of God. Th...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   He Who is in you is greater   1 John 4:4 We have been studying the non-Pauline letters—those New Testament letters not written by Paul. While the majority of the New Testament letters are indeed Paul's, there are several written by other authors, and today we look at one written by John. John also wrote the Gospel according to John and the book of Revelation. Over the next few weeks, before we begin the Advent season next Sunday, we will continue exploring some of these books. In this particular passage, John addresses the false teachings and doctrines spreading among the small and growing churches of that time. These believers were struggling to remain faithful to the teachings of Jesus Ch...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   A Fellowship that makes our joy complete   1 John 1 In our continuing study of the non-Pauline epistles, we have already explored the letters of Jude and James. Today, we turn to the letters of John. Out of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament, fourteen are attributed to Paul, while the remaining books come from various other writers. John, as many of us know, was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ. He authored the Gospel according to John and later wrote several letters to the churches in the regions where he ministered. Unlike many other disciples, John lived a long life. He was eventually exiled to the island of Patmos, where, according to tradition, he died. My wife and I had t...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   A Caring Faith that Endures         James 5 We continue our study of Scripture, focusing particularly on the non-Pauline letters—the letters in the Bible not written by the Apostle Paul. Paul wrote about fourteen letters (includes Hebrews), but there are several others, eight of them, written by different authors, often called the non-Pauline epistles. In recent weeks, we have been studying the letters of Jude and James. Today, we come to the conclusion of the book of James, a letter that offers practical wisdom for Christian living. Many refer to it as the “Proverbs of the New Testament” because of its down-to-earth guidance and moral insight. Throughout this book, Jame...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Desires that cause divisions         James 4:1–12 We continue with the study of the epistles, or the letters of the apostles, and we are in the letter of James, from which we just read the fourth chapter. We finished the first three chapters in previous Sundays, and now we are coming to the close of the book of James. It’s just five chapters, so we’ll finish it next week. James gives us practical wisdom to live—not advice, but practical wisdom—to live out our lives on a Christian path. In the beginning, we talked about how faith without works is dead. That’s his basic theme: we must show our faith through our works. Then we discussed how our actions display our witness t...