This week's devotions dig deeper into Sunday's message, "Listening to the Voice of Truth", from 1 John 4:1-6. John tells the church not to believe every spirit but to test them, and he gives a simple way to do it: does the teaching confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? That test carried real weight in the first century, and it still does now, in a world with more voices competing for our attention than John could have imagined.

This week's devotional walks alongside the sermon Purifying Hope from 1 John 2:28–3:10, tracing the thread John lays down across five days: adoption, hope, purification, sin, and the mission of Christ. Day one sits with the wonder of being called children of God, drawing on Romans 8 and Galatians 4 to explore what that adoption actually means. Day two turns to the groaning anticipation of what we will one day be. Day three lands on the hinge of the whole passage, the hope that purifies. Days four and five work through what sin really is and why the Son of God appeared to destroy it. Each day's Scripture reading and reflection questions are meant to be worked through slowly, ideally alongside this week's sermon, which walks through the full passage in more depth. Take your time with the questions below. They're meant to search, not just inform.