This teaching on 2nd John was given by pastor Barry Forder on 24th January 2021 as part of Calvary Chapel Portsmouth’s on-line family service. In this study we consider a largely unconsidered possibility as to the intended recipient of this short but powerful letter. Many assume John was writing to the Church in general, or […]
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This study on 1 John 4 was given by pastor Barry on the 10th January 2021 as part of Calvary Portsmouth’s on-line family service. In this chapter John reminds us again that false prophets have come, and will continue to deceive until the finally global deception is unveiled in the person of Antichrist. The world […]
This teaching was given by pastor Barry Forder on 20th December as part of our Christmas 2020 series. Last week we looked at why God would send seemingly obscure shepherds to see Jesus at the time of His birth. Far from being a random choice, we noted that the shepherds on this hills around Bethlehem […]
This teaching on 1 John ch2 vs. 14-29 was given by pastor Barry Forder on 6th December 2020 at Calvary Chapel Portsmouth’s on-line family service. In this chapter John plainly states that if you are content (and find no real problem) with this world and the things of this world, if you are ‘given over’ […]
This teaching on 1 John 2: 1-13 was given by pastor Barry Forder on 29th November 2020 as part of Calvary Chapel Portsmouth’s on-line family service. In this 2nd chapter, John continues to explain his reason for writing, firstly ‘that you sin not’, but then assures us that if we do sin as believers, we […]
This 1st study in our verse by verse journey through 1 John was recorded on 22nd November 2020 as part of our on-line family service. John was called by Jesus, probably in his late teenage years, to leave the family fishing business on the shores of Galilee and follow Jesus, a Jewish Rabbi, and become his […]