1-3 JOHN
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Daily Readings: 2 John, 3 John and Psalm 51 Writing during a time of severe persecution, the apostle John did not name himself or the congregation to which he wrote. Instead he cryptically referred to himself as “the elder”, to the local church as “the lady”, and to the members as “her children”. When he
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Daily Readings: 1 John 5 and Psalm 50 In chapter 5, John writes profoundly about the eternal life that God gives to all those who believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. He writes that through our faith in Jesus Christ we are empowered to overcome the temptations of this world and to live lives of
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Daily Readings: 1 John 3-4 and Psalm 49 1 John 3-4 is intense and jam-packed with memorable statements about the Lord, His love for us, and the eternal life He longs to pour into us. What follows is my attempt to summarise its main argument. The real, true, deep, rich, full and abundant life for
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Daily Readings: 1 John 1-2 and Psalm 48 The letters of 1-3 John were written by the apostle John, the son of Zebedee and brother of James, around about 90AD. At the time he lived in Ephesus and probably wrote it as a letter to be circulated among the churches of that region. Having known
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