Posts Tagged ‘Essential Christianity – 1 John’

Have you ever walked through an unfamiliar house at night with the lights off? You can make it from one side of the house to the other in the dark. You follow the walls. You can kind of sense where the big objects are. But it’s not a lot of fun, and you bump into…

The word ‘know’ becomes very important to John as he brings this epistle to a close. He emphasizes what we, as believers in Jesus Christ, can bank our lives upon. Pastor Matt boils it down to three points of application: We Know That He Hears Us, We Know That He Keeps Us, and We Know…

We are in the home stretch of our study of 1 John, “Essential Christianity”. “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:11-12 Pastor Matt tries to help…

We continue this week with our sermon series “Essential Christianity.” Pastor Matt walks us through the first 5 verses of this last chapter of 1 John and shows us the bottom line: Those who believe in Christ are “Overcoming the World.” Listen in and learn about overcoming the world. Pastor Matt preaching on 1 John…

Our sermon series is called “Essential Christianity,” because we are getting to the bottom of what we must be and believe to truly be followers of Christ. This is the second sermon with the same title, “God Is Love.” We’ve learned that this is essential to Christianity: God is love. Because of this, We live…

We have tuned the corner on the second half of to book of 1 John and can almost see the end from here. Our series, “Essential Christianity”, continues this week as we add one more essential to our list: God Is Love and we must love one another. Listen to Pastor Matt as he walks…

We’ve been learning about Essential Christianity from 1 John. This week we learned what is meant by ‘testing the spirit’ and three ways to apply this to our lives. While we are learning from others, we must: Ask what they say about Jesus, Remember our victory in Christ, and Keep listening to God in His…

We’ve been learning about Essential Christianity from 1 John. John has been telling us what is essential to be and what is essential to believe to be a Christian. This weeks passage shows us that God is greater than our hearts, and that He knows everything. Because of this, we need to be confidant. We…

We spent the last two weeks marveling in the truth that we are Children of God! This week, we take it a step further and ponder the fact that reveal that we are a child of God by loving our spiritual brothers and sisters. Listen now as Pastor Matt teaches us three reasons why we…

Picking up where we left off last week, Pastor Matt walks us through the next seven verses in the book of 1 John and teaches us that everyone who has this hope in Christ purifies himself, just as He is pure. There are some pretty alarming statements in these seven verses. They need to be…

Pastor Matt is praying that this message would be the most encouraging you hear in 2013, or at least that it gets into your bloodstream and helps you through the rest of 2013 stretching out in front of you. Listen in as Pastor Matt pulls three points of application from the three verses in today’s…

After a short break, we have returned to our sermon series: Essential Christianity. Pastor Matt starts the new year out by spending some time pondering the end of the world and the return of Jesus Christ. Listen as he poses three questions to answer and apply to our lives today: How do we know this…