24-1006: Abiding in God’s love empowers one to truly walk in His light. John continues to show Christians how God intends for us to walk in His light as we are completely immersed in His love. This has been God’s design from the very beginning, because, as John later states, God is love. But...
24-0922: Christians live in fellowship with God when we walk in the light of His righteousness. After John opens his letter by introducing life with God as fellowship, he then moves to provide greater clarity about what fellowship really means. He begins with the truth that God is light. Then, he shows how we...
Jesus was rejected not by those most removed from or unknown to him, but by His own. This is the violation and betrayal of intimacy in its highest form. Jesus came home to find the lights off, the door barricaded, and the inhabitants hostile to his coming. ...
Christians glorify God and honor King Jesus when we live as salt and light in the world. Salt and Light reveals God’s purpose for the Christian life in this world. Connecting a Christian’s identity (5:1-12) with a life of walking by faith in Jesus (5:17-7:27), Jesus teaches that God sends Christians into the world...
18-0121: Jesus is the light and word of life for all who believe in Him. John records a moment that turned Jesus toward the Father’s purpose for why he sent him to earth. Jesus turns to his disciples and the crowd to exhort them to believe for life, while the light is with them....
17-1015: Christians live compelled by God’s love to EXPEND their life for Jesus so God is glorified before others. Every person either lives by this conviction, that God loves compels them to live for Him, or in pursuit of another love or desire. In this message, Pastor Lane sets forth two principles by...
17-0806: Should Christians be worried when the dark night of the soul comes? Does it mean I am not saved? Does it mean God does not love me anymore? What should one do? Pastor Lawrence Harrison, Pastor Lane’s father, shares a hopeful and helpful word from Isaiah on how Christians should respond when they...
17-0326: Jesus is the light of the world who gives eternal life with God when we believe in Him. Light is a powerful force in the world. When darkness is all around, light comforts, guards and guides. It is most important to know which light to follow. When we believe and follow Jesus, we...
17-0305: God the Father sends the Word – Jesus – to give life and His Spirit to live in us. In this message Pastor Lane works addresses the issue of how God works His redemptive purpose and will in the world. He highlights six moves through John 7 to show how God’s Word works...
16_1113: God saves people from sin’s condemnation because He loves us and wants all to walk in His light for His glory. John pauses from his narrative discourse between Jesus and Nicodemus to clarify his message of God’s love and salvation. False understandings of salvation are not new. Man has always tried to build...