Redemption Church in Brookfield, WI

Why We Love

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 4:7-21

Big Question: Why is it so important for us to love one another?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Invisible Love, Made Visible

    

2. The Recipients of God's Love, Made Fearless

Big Idea: God has shown us his invisible love in order to make our visible love possible.

Application Points:

1. God's visible love has removed our fear of punishment.
2. God's visible love is redeeming the world through us.

Discerning the Spirit

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 4:1-6

Big Question: How can you tell who has God's Spirit within them?

Sermon Points:

1. The need for spiritual discernment
   • Takeaway: We can't trust every spirit
2. Our hope in spiritual discernment
   • We don't have to fear any spirit
3. The key to spiritual discernment
   • Who do these spirits listen to?

Big Idea: When God's Son is confessed, those with God's Spirit will listen.

The Love That Makes us Confident

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 3:11-28

Big Question: Why can we be so confident that God’s children will love one another?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Son has shown us True Love.
2. His love is in us, overcoming our lack of love.

Big Idea: God loves his children through his children.

Application Points:

Our Love for One Another Should Be:

1. Righteous
2. Tangible
3. More than just a feeling

The Confidence of God's Children

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 2:28 - 3:10

Big Question: Why can we be so confident that God's children will practice righteousness?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Son is real & righteous.
2. He makes us God's righteous children

Big Idea: God's only righteous Son makes us righteous children, like him.

Application Points:

How can we know if we're children of God?

1. Is your Jesus real & righteous?
2. Is your Jesus really making you righteous?

God's Steadfast Love Wins The Day

Preacher: Mark Lindstrom

Passage: Psalm 6

Sermon Points:

1. Troubled Believers call out for grace and healing. (Verses 1-3)
   • Principle: A humbled believer understands the need for grace and healing and cries out for them by name.
2. Troubled Believers pray fervently to the God of steadfast love. (Verses 4-7)
   • Principle: Fervent prayer flows out of a humble heart and is based on a particular aspect of the holy character of God.
3. Troubled Believers are heard by God and delivered. (Verses 8-10)
   • Principle: God hears a believer’s prayer and acts powerfully to heal and deliver them.

Big idea: A humbled believer's fervent reliance on God’s steadfast love leads to deliverance of the whole man.

Abiding In The Truth

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto 

Passage: 1 John 2:18-27 

Big Question: How can we endure the chaos & confusion all around us? 

Sermon Points: 

1. Warning: There will be antichrists who abandon the truth. 
   • They deny - or distort - the truth of the Gospel. 
   • The are not spiritually "of us". 
   • They will not continue with us. 
2. Call To Action: God's anointed will abide in the truth. 

Big Idea: We must abide in the truth of Christ together. 

Application Points: 

1. We must Contend for the truth of the gospel. 
2. We must Confront the lies that distort it. 
3. We also need to Continue with the rest of God's anointed. 

The World Is Not Enough

Preacher: Pastor Ryan Boyer

Passage: 1 John 2:15-17

Sermon Points:

1. Who has your heart?
2. How can you know the difference?
3. Where will this leave you?

Application Points:

1. Examine your life for dangerous desires.
2. Engage those who are walking dangerously.

Loving Like Jesus

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 2:7-14

Big Idea: We can love like Jesus, because he is alive in us.

Sermon Points:

Our love for one another is:

1. Enlightened 
2. Essential
3. Empowered

Application Points:

People who love one another:

1. Spend Time Together
2. Help One Another
3. Encourage One Another
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Those Who Know The Advocate

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto 

Passage: 1 John 2:1-6 

Big Idea: Those who truly know Jesus will walk like Jesus. 

Sermon Points: 

1. Our Aim: To Avoid Sin 
2. Our Advocate: Jesus Christ the Righteous 
3. Our Assurance 

Walking In The Light

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 1:5-10

Big Idea: Our fellowship will reveal who truly walks in the light.

Sermon Points:

Three marks of those who walk in the light:

1. They live in the light of fellowship
2. Their sin has been exposed by the light
3. They’ve found forgiveness in the light