series: Letters of Love
title: #11 Stronger
date: June 17, 2018 (Father’s Day)
teacher: Jacob Bender
scriptures: 1 John 3:24, 1 John 4:1-6, 1 John 4:13-16, John 1:1, John 1:5, John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 John 1:5, 1 John 1:1.
Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
…And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
How is it that some people can read a passage, and it be guilt and condemnation and tragedy… and someone else can read the same passage, and it be life, and love, and hope and grace?
“I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Pastor Austin kicks off our series on the Epistles of John by explaining much of what was going on when John was writing.
The first few words of Acts 2:1 reveals that there is more going on with Pentecost than just what was happening that day.
conversation means that we bind and we loose together, we learn together, we serve together, and we grow together.
We welcome each other’s perspectives, and we depend on each other’s accountability.
“we ought to be supporting people like these”