1 John 2:18-27 is our sermon text. John has made it clear: the two ways of knowing a Christian (1) being in the light by acknowledging their sin and r...

1 John 2:3-3:17 is our sermon text: “Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” Live like Jesus did? Impossible!...

We continue our study of the Apostle John's first letter to the congregations in Western Turkey with 1 John 1:5 - 1:5 - "And we are writing these thin...

Today we begin a study of John's First Epistles.  Seeing, hearing, communing, touching, smelling. God showers upon us the gifts that we need in human ...

The Christian life has a certain rhythm about it: Repentance, faith and servanthood.  It can be cyclical in your life - a season, or perhaps every day...

A boy possessed with an unclean spirit is afflicted and the disciples can do nothing about it.  Jesus says, "This is a faithless generation" - TO HIS ...

In today's Gospel, Jesus heals a deaf man.  Pay close attention the extent that Jesus goes in making this man hear and speak again.  He does this with...

By what authority are things declared "clean" or "unclean".  Mayors and governors have tried to prohibit the sale certain foods and drinks that they h...

Tevye cries "Tradition!" in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.  Jesus has something to say about traditions in the church, and about those fighting toda...

"Grant me patience, wisdom and understanding...." was a phrase in my childhood prayers that my parents taught me.  How true these words are.  We have ...