Month: October 2016

1 John 3:4-9 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning… Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil… No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.  Since I started this…
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1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. I am a pastor’s kid so I knew, growing up, that my father owned the church and was the boss of everyone in it (at least I was pretty sure it worked that…
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1 John 2:28 …Abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. In my worst destruction, I identified very well with Adam and Eve, hiding in the garden. I do not think that God ever turned his back on me but I…
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1 John 2:18,22 (The) antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist… I am spiritual. I believe in God. I just don’t see the need for Jesus. It is not uncommon to hear this from those who…
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1 John 2:15,16 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is…
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1 John 2:9-11 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light… But whoever hates his brother walks in the darkness… Yesterday’s Conversation With God… God, I think I am going to skip this passage. Why is that? I just don’t…
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1 John 2:4-6 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar… whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. My biggest failure in life has not been any one particular dark deed. My biggest failure in life was knowing God, claiming…
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1 John 2:1,2 I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have… Jesus Christ… He is the propitiation for our sins. Once upon a time, I had a coach whom we called All or Nothing. He was a man of extremes. When on the…
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  1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We all love the story of the one who used to be…
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1 John 1:5-7 God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. I tend to think in very black and white terms. I like concrete and I like uncomplicated. I tend to…
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