Will a Believer Be Judged in Heaven?
Have you ever wondered what a true born again believer will experience when they are in heaven standing before the Lord? Some believe they will be judged for their sins and will not know until that moment if they will be allowed to enter into His eternal home, or if…
Read MoreThe Rippy Place – For Sale
Welcome to The Rippy Place! And … it’s for sale! So, here is our little farmhouse “before” and it was a darling little blue house at the time when we moved in in April of 2018…. We walked inside and saw its potential and yet, we also saw that is…
Read MoreWeek 10 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 4:7-21)
HERE IS THE LINK TO Week 10 Bible study – and attached is the listening guide. 1 John Week 10 Love Is What does the “love from God” look like when it is occupying and operating in and through our life? Does the Bible tell us specifically what love…
Read MoreLove Keeps No List of Wrongs
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.” Some Bible translations says, “Love thinks no evil.” The word literally “thinks no evil” is the Greek word logizomai. And that word is an accountant’s word; it literally means “to keep a mathematical calculation.” It is the word that is used in a ledger…
Read MoreWeek 9 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 4:1-6)
Matthew Henry – “…believe not, regard not, trust not, follow not, every pretender to the Spirit of God, or every professor of vision, or inspiration, or revelation from God. These deceivers set themselves up in the church; it was so in the apostle’s times. Fatal is the spirit of delusion.…
Read MoreWeek 8 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 3:1-24)
“Children of God Love One Another” is the title to Apostle John’s letter found in the third chapter of First John. He already addressed this one distinguishing mark of love concerning a true child of God in the second chapter, but now in chapter three he takes the quality of…
Read MoreLove Bites the Tongue!
When was the last time you heard a sermon on gossip, or on slander? Think for a moment how much your life has been hurt by the words of other people. By the assault of the tongue against your character. Love bites the tongue! The Holy Spirit is not a…
Read MoreWeek 7 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 2:18-29)
Hi friends, First of all … Last night in class, we didn’t even attempt to do what the Bible does not instruct and that is to try to name or determine specifically anyone on the planet as ‘the antichrist.’ The Bible doesn’t give us that information, but the Bible does provide information in…
Read MoreWeek 6 – 1 John Bible Study (1 John 2:12-17) … “He Never Forgets”
Hi friend! I hope you’re enjoying some cooler weather as we move into October! Isn’t the season of autumn one of the most “nature-ly” theatrical? Among some select hardwoods that are still show-casing those deep summer shades of green, it’s been only a matter of days that we’re now seeing…
Read More“Yet Hates…”
Yet hates … (1 John 2:9) I can remember the day I was sitting on our sofa at home, study Bible in my lap and coming to 1 John 2:9. I just couldn’t breeze on over to verse 10 because of these two words that stopped me right there –…
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