1 John
July 9 – 1 John 5:13-21
Main Focus: Faith in the Son gives us confidence in our standing and walk with him. Well, folks, this is the last week in our church-wide study of the book of 1 John. John is a pretty straightforward writer, and his words can sometimes be a bit too on-the-nose for our...
July 2 – 1 John 5:1-12
Main Focus: Faith in the Son is the way to life and the way of life. We're now in the last few weeks of our progression through the book of John and have seen several recurring themes crop up. Some of the major ones thus far are rejection of sin/world (1:5-10,...
June 25 – 1 John 4:7-21
Main focus: Here’s a good summary for all of 1 John—walking with Jesus necessitates God’s love living through us. We’ve finally arrived at the most famous passage out of 1 John, “God is love.” As you might have expected, and sort of like we did two weeks ago, we’ll...
June 18 – 1 John 4:1-6
Main focus: Abiding in Jesus requires practicing hopeful discernment between truth and lie. This week, we're opening our Bibles to chapter 4 to continue our progression through the book of 1 John. There are loads of beautiful and hard truths in this book so far, and...
June 11 – 1 John 3:16-24
Main focus: Abiding in Jesus means loving one another with Jesus’s love. As you read the passage for this week, it’d be helpful to read back up to 3:11—remember, this is a letter, and as much as we chop it into chunks for preaching and discussion, John’s writing has...
June 4 – 1 John 3:1-15
Main focus: Being a child of God means walking in Jesus's righteousness instead of walking in sin. John's words in this week's passage are certainly not minced or intended to be subtle. In several places in his letters, he gets straight to the point and tells us what...
May 28 – 1 John 2:18-29
Main focus: Abiding in Jesus bears the fruit of faithfulness and steadfastness—if you want to make it to the finish, cling to him. Steel yourself; this week’s passage talks about the antichrist. Not that you should be worried—the passage is pretty straightforward—but...
May 21 – 1 John 2:12-17
Main focus: Loving Jesus grants us an eternal hope and rightly dethrones our love for fleeting things. As we’re continuing to make our way through 1 John together, and we've begun to see some patterns crop up in John's writing. Throughout this letter, John is urging...
May 14 – 1 John 2:7-11
Main focus: Walking with Jesus means living in the light and acting out of love toward one another. A month into our series we find out John doesn’t have anything new to say. At least, according to 1 John 2:7, “Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment.” As we’ve...
May 7 – 1 John 2:1-6
Main focus: Walking with Jesus means knowing and keeping his commandments. Last week we read about how the goodness of God draws us into confession, and community groups elaborated on that by discussing how that leads to the confession of sins to one another. Now, as...
1 John Weekday Study
This summer we're trying something new called Weekday Study! These are once-a-week, 15-minute studies you can do after listening to the sermon on Sunday to go a little bit deeper in our journey through 1 John. They're also focused on some of the same heart-work and...
April 30 – 1 John 1:5-10
Did you see our new Weekday Study? It's a new resource for you and the folks in your community group that goes along with our sermon series, check it out here! → 1 John Weekday StudyMain focus: Walking with God in the goodness of his light requires confession. This...
April 23 – 1 John 1:1-4
Main focus: We’re turning to 1 John to grow in joyful fellowship with the Triune God and with his people. Before we get started, check out our 1 John Intro post for some background on why we're reading this letter this summer. As we step into a new book of the Bible,...
Intro to 1 John
This summer, from April 23 to July 15, we’ll be studying verse-by-verse through the letter of 1 John. Below you’ll find some introductory content on the letter, but first perhaps you’re wondering, why 1 John? John the Elder, as he refers to himself in 2 and 3 John,...