What's going to happen before Jesus returns? That seems to be a common question nowadays. In today's scripture, we look at answering that question as best we can.

We're starting Paul's second letter to the church in Thessalonica. 

Learning your first language was easy (probably). Learning a new language is work. In the last passages from Paul's letter, he spells out some way Christians need to learn how to act.

Last week we looked at how Jesus's impending return will affect the dead. This week we look at how it affects the living.

The Thessalonians expected to be alive when Jesus returned and were concerned for their Christian brother and sisters who had already dies. Death and the end times are confusing enough, but these early believers didn't have a Bible to study to find their answers. So Paul provides one for them.

Paul tells the church how to spend its money, and we can learn a lot from his instructions.

Chapter 4 deals with 3 major topics for the believer; sex, money, and death. This week, we look at what it means to live sexually holy lives. Parents, this is your warning. There's nothing graphic, be we do discuss some topics that you might find uncomfortable to listen to with young children.

Paul knew the church he had fathered was suffering, but he couldn't go to them to help. He had to do something. This week we look at why he sent Timothy and what Timothy said about this church when he returned.

Things are not all sunshine and rainbows in Thessalonica since Paul left, but you might think that up to this point in the letter. Here Paul addresses the storms that have hit and tells the church how to deal with them.

Paul wasn't the first preacher to roll into town. Those who came before him had a bad habit of abusing, using, manipulating, and robbing their listeners. Paul was different, but that didn't stop the haters.