Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Falling on a Grenade By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Phil-adelphia For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Life Changing Seed Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Purification See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: The Anointing I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Worldliness Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Stage of Life I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: The Test of Love Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: The Test of Obedience And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar,
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Perfectionism If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Rationalizing Sin If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Fear of Exposure This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Knockoffs That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word
Continue reading...Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received
Continue reading...Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.” But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter
Continue reading...