1 John

1 John 2:7-8 – John’s Practical Eschatology

“Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true [...]


I John 4:18 Fear and Love

To say that the world is unpredictable is a woeful understatement. There are so many variables.  Or to put it another way, there are so many things that could go wrong. In the last few years, we have lived through some of these events: natural disasters, financial markets crashing, wars, oil spills, and so much [...]


1 John 1:1-4 Paradox of Joy

The author of 1 John cannot contain himself as he writes about the appearance of Jesus. The text is redundant and the wording is rushed. For example, there is no introduction and there is no antecedent to the relative pronoun; it is as if we have walked into the middle of a conversation.


1 John 1:5-10

Who repents? In answering this question, there is a great paradox. For it is not the unrighteous who repents, but the righteous.