July 13, 2025 – 1 John 5:1-5, 13-15, and 18-21 emphasizes that believers in Jesus Christ have assurance of eternal life and can overcome the world through faith. This passage highlights the importance of loving God and others, keeping his commandments, and having confidence in prayer based on God’s will.
What Does Your Eternal Life Look Like?
July 6, 2025 – 1 John 5 emphasizes that true belief in Jesus as the Christ results in being born of God, leading to love for God and His children. This love is demonstrated through obedience to God’s commands, which are not burdensome. The chapter also highlights the victory over the world through faith in Jesus…
Love Without Borders
June 29, 2025 – Love Without Borders
1 John 4:4-9 and 20-21, emphasizes that God is love and that true love is demonstrated by loving others, especially fellow believers. Those who claim to love God but hate others are liars, and love is perfected in believers as they reflect Jesus’s love in this world.
This Is How We Know
June 22, 2025 – This Is How We Know
1 John 3:11-24 emphasizes the importance of loving one another as a defining characteristic of being a child of God. It contrasts loving actions with hatred, highlighting that true love is not just words but also deeds, mirroring the sacrificial love of Jesus.
Wake Up to the Father’s Love
June 15, 2025 – Wake Up to the Father’s Love
John 3:1-10 (NRSV) emphasizes the love of the Father, God’s children, and the contrast between those who are born of God and those who are not. It highlights the importance of righteousness and love as characteristics of God’s children.
The Jesus Way
June 8, 2025 – The Jesus Way
1 John 2:3-11 emphasizes the importance of love and obedience as indicators of a genuine faith in Christ. It highlights that those who claim to know God but don’t obey His commandments are in darkness and deception. Conversely, those who love their fellow believers and live in obedience
The Lie We Tell Ourselves
1 John 1:1-10 emphasizes the importance of walking in the light and confessing our sins to maintain fellowship with God.It highlights that God is light, and if we deny our sin or claim to be sinless, we are lying and deceiving ourselves. The key message is to recognize our sinfulness, confess it to God…
Be a Discipling Community
August 11, 2024 - Be a Discipling Community - 1 John 1:3; Acts 11:19-30 The book of Acts introduces us to the Greek word - koinonia. It is often simply translated “fellowship.” For Christians, it is a unique kind of fellowship experienced by people who are...
Growing In Love
Sermon Series: You Belong Here August 6, 2023 - Week 1: Growing in Love A new sermon series begins this week - You Belong Here. Remember the the nursery rhyme…”Here’s the church. Here’s the steeple. Open the door and see all the people.” You probably even...



