Adopted Believers Podcast

In 1 John 2:21, we see the truthfulness of God's Word and how we are to use it.

To help us dive into the subject of antichrists as taught to us in 1 John 2:18-19, Pastor Rob Pochek, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church Park Street, joins us to clarify what this passage means. While ABP is not a scholarly work, I would like to reference any material that my teaching was based on or influenced by: - Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2005) - "C...

As we study 1 John 2:20, we see how God's Word helps us view the world around us and find meaning and morality in life.

In 1 John 2:17, we see two types of foundations: the foundations from the world, and the foundation from God.

As we study 1 John 2:15-16, we see that both God and sin demand our attention and affection and why we must always choose God.

Today we have a special guest with us, the youth pastor of First Baptist Church Park Street, Pastor Ben Saunders. As we take another look at 1 John 2:12-14, we see how God doesn't change even though we do.

As we study 1 John 2:12-14, we see that John gives us the three stages of spiritual maturity and what each of these must do. While ABP is not a scholarly work, I would like to reference any material that my teaching was based on or influenced by: - The ESV Study Bible (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), p. 2431 -John Piper, Desiring God (Multnomah Publishers, Inc., 2003), p. 18, I quoted "The chief &nb...

As we study 1 John 2:8b-11, we see how we are to love our brothers and sisters: through Christ's strength, not our own.

Today in 1 John 2:7-8, we see how we are to love God and love others, as we are commanded through the Old and New Testaments.

As we study 1 John 2:5-6, we continue to hit on obedience and how we know how to obey -- through God's Word.

In today's reading, 1 John 2:3-4, we dive into a key sign of our salvation, obedience, and how we are to obey.

Today we post our longest episode on the shortest passage (1 John 2:3a)! Today we see how much joy and confidence we can have in Christ and His propitiation for us.

Today's study finds us in 1 John 2:2. We are looking at Christ's propitiation for our sins and how this applies to the world.

Continuing in our study of 1 John, we put 1 John 2:1 under the microscope! We see how we can fight the deceit of sin with the truth: God's written Word to us!

Continuing in our study of 1 John, we examine verses 8-10 in chapter 1.  We see who we are as sinners saved by grace and how we as believers recover from sin. 

We are studying and examining through 1 John 1:6-7. Here we see how we walk in the light and what that means for us as believers.

In episode two of ABP, we are studying through 1 John 1:5. We see how God is light and what that means for us.

Welcome to ABP! In this first episode, we are studying through 1 John 1:1-4. We see how we have fellowship and how we use that fellowship.