I recently began preaching through 1 John at Kingstree Church. Today’s picture serves as both a ‘logo’ for that series as well as a visual summary of the message of the book itself. The heart of 1 John appears as we consider the relationship between the book’s three central concepts, namely, Life, Light, and Love. […]
Colossians 1:18 ‘He is the Head of the Body, the Church…’ Pic # 4 from the planned Colossians 1:15-20 board book. The Church—all those who have ever or will ever trust in Jesus as Lord, God, and Savior across all of time and space—is the Body of the crucified and risen Christ, and He is
In Colossians 2:2-3, Paul seeks for the Colossians to be “united in love, even unto all the riches of full assurance of understanding, unto the knowledge of the mystery of God, [which is] Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.” Paul labors for the Colossians to be united to
1 Corinthians 12:26-27, ‘…if one member suffers, all the members suffer with [it]; if a member is glorified, all the members rejoice together. Now, you yourselves are the body of Christ, and individually members of it,’ We are members of the body of Christ, and, in His suffering, Christ has suffered the sufferings of His
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John 21:15-17, “Do you love me?…Feed my lambs…tend my sheep…feed my sheep…” These words were spoken specifically to Peter and the “feeding” etc. in view refers to Peter’s leadership in the Church. However, the same words can be received and applied by those who are not called to a ministry of teaching / leading.
John 17:21, “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” The identity of God as manifest in the crucified and risen Jesus is the Whole around and in
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the
John 17:11, “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” In 17:6 Christ says that He has manifested the Father’s Name to those whom the Father has given Him. Now in verse 11 He asks that those same ones
John 15:12, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” Jesus’ call to obey His commandment (s) (there are, I believe, two commandments in view when John uses the plural “commandments”, 1) to receive Jesus as the Son and Revealer of God, and 2) to love as He
1 John 4:12, “No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.” God is definitively made known in His Son at the cross, and we continue to make Him known as we love one another as He has loved us…. If
Colossians 2:18-19, “Let no one disqualify you…not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.” ALL Christian growth and unity comes from this single thing: Holding fast to the biblically-revealed Christ, who is the Head
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Ephesians 2:6-7, “[God] raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” The goodness of Who God Is, poured out over us–to our ever
Ephesians 1:4, “…He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him…”
1 John 4:19, ” We love because he first loved us.” Love begets love, and the Triune God is its source and goal.
John 17:11, “…that they may be one…” The Biblical Jesus Christ is the unifying pitch of His people.
1 Corinthians 2:2,”I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” This is preaching.
Psalm 45:13,”All glorious is the princess in her chamber…in many-colored robes she is led to the king.”
John 15:4, “Abide in me and I in you.” At the heart of Christian community is individual intimacy with Christ.
Jeremiah 23:6, “And this is the name by which [the King] will be called: YHWH is our Righteousness” Because of the Cross
John 17:23, Jesus said our unity is “so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
