Leonard T's Blog – April 2015 Archive (8)

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XVI

1Jn 3:11-15 NIV84  This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.  (12)  Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.  (13)  Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.  (14)  We know that we have passed from death to life, because we…

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XV

1 John 3:7-10

John emphasizes the fact that the people to whom he is writing, including us that are saved today, are children of God. This identification must forever be recognized and embraced by the believer in…

"First faith, then obedience. If by that we mean that it is faith which justifies, and not the act of obedience, all well and good, for that is the essential and unexceptionable presupposition of all that follows. If however we make a chronological distinction between faith and obedience, and make obedience subsequent to faith, we are divorcing the one from the other -- and then we get the practical question, when must obedience begin? Obedience remains separated from faith. From the point…

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIV

1 John 3:4-6

“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our…

What Is Resurrection Sunday?

Resurrection Sunday

Some interesting stats:

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIII

1 John 3:2-3

“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this…

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XII

1 John 3:1

 Today’s article is probably the shortest article I will ever write and at the same time one of the most powerful. Today I will give…