November 9, 2025| The Confidence of Love |1 John 4:13-21 JD Cutler Click here for sermon audio As we noted last week, our study of 1st John has brought us to the most concentrated portion of the apostle’s treatment of the subject love and the children of God. We have seen again and again through this letter that John’s primary purpose of writing is self-examination, followed closely by equipping his readers to evaluate false teachers. To accomplish both of these purposes, Jo

November 2, 2025| The Love of God |1 John 4:7-12 JD Cutler Click here for sermon audio Over the last 11 weeks we have covered many themes throughout the book of 1st John, but it would be hard to argue that one of the central themes of John’s letter is not the idea of love. Throughout this little book the Apostle uses the word love some 46 times, not counting his use of beloved. It is a theme sprinkled through this letter. This week we come to the most concentrated portion of

October 26, 2025| Testing the Spirits |1 John 4:1-6 Will Davis (sermon audio is unavailable for this sermon) 4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, w