A ministry of the Word
In this video, I am preaching on the subject of losing our first love as Christians from Revelation 2:1-7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxxniW5RVrg&feature=youtu.be This lesson examines Jesus' words to the Ephesian church, who had abandoned their first love and were now being driven by other things in their view. Our aim in this lesson is to identify what …
https://youtu.be/HjHdLU3c2Ds Colossians 2:1–3 (CSB) — 1 For I want you to know how greatly I am struggling for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me in person. 2 I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of …
Continue reading "Encouraged and Joined in Love To Know Christ: Colossians 2:1-3"
1 Corinthians 13:1–3 (CSB) — 1 If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but …
Continue reading "Why Our Evangelism Doesn’t Work: 1st Corinthians 13:1-3"
James 2:14–17 (CSB) — 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, …
Continue reading "The Mission of Love: What Good is Dead Faith?"
I know this will upset many Christians, but my heart burns within me because our pulpits have deceived so many people into thinking that their dead faith will save them (See James 2:26). Brothers and sisters, if you say that you love Jesus and don't love your brothers or sisters in Christ, you are a …
I prayed and asked God to teach me the love of Christ. He gave me an incredibly hard day, filled with physical pain and emotional discouragement, and put in my path selfish and unlovable people - I don't think I encountered a single "normal" person today. I'm going to say something that is counterintuitive: I …
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister. This introduces us to the concept that conduct exposes certain spiritual realities, and prepares us for John’s discourse on the supreme spiritual …
Continue reading "The Children of God vs. The Children of the Devil: 1st John 3:10"
1 John 3:14 (CSB) — 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. James 2:14–17 (CSB) — 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have …
Continue reading "“Why’s My Faith So Dead?” – 1st John 3:14 & James 2:14-17"
VERSE 10: The Light Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. This is the second test in John’s apostolic epistle given to believers so that we can verify that Christ is in us and we are in him. In these first …
VERSE 5a: The Love of God Perfected But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. This verse contrasts John’s negative exposition (v. 4) of his second proposition (v. 3) with two positive expositions (v. 5a; v. 5b-6). I’ve divided this verse because it properly presents two thoughts: 5a: …
