(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 5:13-21) Below are two different English translation of today’s Scripture, 1 John 5:16-17. Please read and meditate on both. New International Version (NIV) 16 If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 5:1-12 ) Perhaps we have heard the saying, “Jesus is the reason for the season,” in reference to Christmas. However, the point of emphasis in 1 John is that “Jesus is the Christ is the reason for the season.” Jesus is the Christ, means that Jesus was not just a man that walked […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 4:7-21 ) 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Dear friends, let us love one another, not for our own reasons, not with […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 4:1-6 ) From the early church to today, there have always been competing philosophies, religious thought, theologies regarding God, how to reach God, and regarding the nature of Jesus. Was Jesus just a man that was adopted as the Son of God and given His abilities through the Holy Spirit from God, or […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 3:19-24 ) What is God’s command? No, it isn’t a list of hard to understand, hard to decipher rules and regulations, but His command is simple, although not simply done, that is “to believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as He commanded us.” Simple, right? […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 3:11-18 ) What is love? How would we answer this question? When we think about love, do we immediately think about relationships? After relationships, do we think about things that we love, or things that we love to do? What is love, and what does it mean to love one another? In our […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 3:1-10 ) 1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! Yes, that is what we are! We are children of God. However, do we act and live like the children of God? Or, do we act and […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 2:18-29 ) The relationship between the Father and the Son, that is God and Jesus Christ, is an important one. We can’t separate the two and choose one and not the other. However, for many that believed in God, believing that Jesus is the Christ was difficult for them to accept. In fact, […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 2:7-17 ) In today’s Scripture, it is clear that John is writing to those that know God and know Jesus. This is the reason he is writing to them: Yes, they know God, and they know Jesus, and they know what it means to believe in God and in Jesus. John writes, 7 […]
(REFLECTIONS ON 1 John 2:1-6 ) I often like to read 1 John 1:8-10 and 1 John 2:1-2 together because when read together it helps us to understand and make sense of Jesus’ atonement for our sins. Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but not just for one moment in time, at one moment in our life, […]