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Loving the Brother You Can't Stand | Expository Preaching
📖 1 John 2:7-11 • The Apostle John — the last man standing, writing from Ephesus as the final eyewitness to the resurrection — uses what may be his last ink not for prophecy or persecution strategy. He writes about love. Specifically, the love you owe the brother you can't stand to be in the same room with.
⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • February 19, 2026.
John confronts the most common and convicting form of hatred in the church — not explosive rage, but silence. The closed hand. The spiritual-sounding phrase offered to someone you could actually help. "We've been…
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