1 Thessalonians (Program #19) – Our Heart to be Established Blameless in Holiness and our Body to be Preserved Clean in Sanctification Proverbs 4:23 says: Keep your heart with all vigilance, For from it are the issues of life. So, how do you keep your heart? Well, if you are a seeker and lover of […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #18) – Our Heart to be Established Blameless in Holiness (2) The Bible has a lot to say about man’s heart. And sometime it can seem confusing. For example, Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And it is incurable; Who can know it?”  But in Proverbs despite the incurable […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #17) – Our Heart to be Established Blameless in Holiness (1) In the final chapter of 1 Thessalonians, the apostle Paul uses a few very short verses to point out fifteen different items that he was concerned about in the experience of the young believers in Thessalonica.   He gave them this […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #16) – Cooperation with the Divine Operation (2) 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 is a chapter presenting the promise of the Lord’s return and the rapture of all the believers at the end of this age. And to the young believers in Thessalonica these word were encouraging and fill them with hope. But […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #15) – Cooperation with the Divine Operation (1) As we are caring for new believers, we likely often follow the pattern of the apostle Paul as he cared for the young Church in Thessalonica by giving them encouraging and hopeful passages from the Bible. In the Thessalonians, it was Paul’s word concerning […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #14) – Watchfulness and Soberness When Paul wrote words to the Church in Thessalonica to encourage them, he stressed that the life of the believers is a life full of hope. And even at the endurance needed to live the Christian life is linked to that hope and flows out of that […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #13) – The Hope of the Christian Life In the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians he vividly describes how desperate mankind is apart from God. Listen to Chapter 2:12 “That you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #12) – An Exhortation Concerning a Holy Life for the Church Life Every parent can learn a lot about how to properly care for and raise your children by observing how the apostle Paul care for his spiritual children in 1 & 2 Thessalonians. By the time he comes to Chapter 4 […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #10) – The Reward of Fostering Of all the writings in the New Testament, perhaps the deepest and most profound are those of the apostle Paul. To Paul it was given to unfold many of the great truths of the Christian faith and to make known the eternal purpose of God. But […]

1 Thessalonians (Program #8) -The Church Becoming the Embodiment of the Triune God (2) One of the essentials for being a Christian is to appreciate the Bible as the word of God. But for most of us our reading and our understanding of the Holy Word fall far short of what it should be. For […]