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Study of 1 John 4:1-21 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that...
THE FAITH OF G.I. JOE
Henry T. Waskow was raised in the cotton country south of Temple, Texas, one of eight children in a family of German Baptists strapped enough to sew their clothes from flour sacking. Waskow was fair, blue-eyed, short and sober. A teenage lay minister, Waskow took...
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE RISE OF THE NONES?
Pew Research recently released a study that showed that more than a quarter of the U.S. population don’t identify with any religion – the ‘nones’. That has grown from 17 percent a decade ago. This ‘rise of the nones’ has caused much heart burn among the commentators...
WAGING WAR WITH LOVE
A Study of 1 John 3:11-24 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...
THE COMING OF CHRIST
A study of 1 John 2:28-3:10 28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him....
THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
A study of 1 John 2:18-27 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For...
OVERCOMING EVIL ON OUR SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE
Study of 1 John 2:12-17 12 I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the...
THE TESTS OF AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANITY
A study of 1 John 2:3-11 3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete...
GOD IS LIGHT: A BIBLE STUDY ON 1 JOHN 1:5-2:2
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in...
A PRAYER FOR JOY
Lord Jesus Christ, all your ways of mercy tend to and end in my delight. You did weep, sorrow, suffer that I might rejoice. For my joy you have sent the Comforter, multiplied your promises, shown me your future happiness, given me a living fountain. You are preparing...
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