6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify:8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of […]
Christ
The Second Birth and its Purposes: 1 John 5:1-5
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not […]
Bonhoeffer on the Psalter
Beginning this year, my church will be singing a Psalm from the Psalter each week. I am very excited about this. The Psalter is the inspired hymnbook for God’s people. Unfortunately many today have neglected this great resource for corporate worship, which we did as well for a while. But not only are the Psalms given […]
Bonhoeffer on Christian Community
One of my frustrations with my generation of Christians is that there is an unhealthy obsession with this idea of community. It seems many young people are always looking for that perfect type of community in a church, and when a church doesn’t meet their expectations of what Christian community is supposed to look like, […]
Love Applied – 1 John 4:17-21
17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.19 We love because he first […]