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The Epistles of John: Walking in the Light of God’s Love is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament epistles that we know as First, Second, and Third John offer us an important glimpse into the life of the early Christian church, particularly as it struggled with teachers of false doctrine. Of the three, the only one which does not focus on false teachers is Third John, where the problem was an apparently orthodox church leader named Diotrephes, who had managed to become the...

there was a sense in which Philip and the other disciples did not know the One in whom they had believed. Even in human relationships the word know is quite flexible. I may know persons in the sense that I recognize them or am acquainted with them; but at the same time I may not know them in the sense of intimate knowledge or real perception of their character or nature. “I thought I knew you, but I don’t,” is a perfectly comprehensible statement in English. So too, the Christian who does know God
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