by Susan Barnes | 10 Nov 2020 | Devotions
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” 1 John 3:16TV programming is almost a thing of the past. People are now able to choose what program they want to...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Dec 2008 | Devotions
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us.” 1 John 3:1 As a child, I watched, I Dream of Jeannie. Larry Hagman played Major Nelson who found a genie that could grant wishes with the blink of an eye. Nelson could have wished for material possessions, riches,...
by Susan Barnes | 5 Nov 2008 | Devotions
This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4 Often, it seems like faith is such a weak and foolish thing, yet we know, “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Oct 2008 | Devotions
In this world we are like Jesus. 1 John 4:17 How can this possibly be true? How can fallen people be like Jesus? The verse is in the context of Christians having confidence on the Day of Judgment. God has so completely dealt with our sins that our standing before him...
by Susan Barnes | 22 Oct 2008 | Devotions
“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” 1 John 3:12. The story of Cain is concise and found early in Genesis: “The Lord looked with...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Oct 2008 | Devotions
For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 1 John 2:16 The Message Bible translates the verse this way, “Practically everything that goes on in the...
