The Summit Church Denver

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28

Speaker: Bryan Barley

Summary: As Paul concludes his first letter to the Thessalonians, we see the hidden treasure in a passage that is often skipped.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22

Speaker: Bryan Barley

Summary: Every family has a way of conducting itself. Paul lays out six "rules" for how God's family handles life, describing a beautiful counterculture that puts on display the goodness of what life looks like when Jesus is Lord.

Title: Vision in the Valley: Let's Talk about the End of the World

Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Summary: Paul turns his attention to how we live in light of the end of the world, encouraging us towards a sacred sobriety and holy normalcy.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Summary: We look at Paul turn his attention to the topic of death, and how what Jesus will do in the last days comforts us in our current trials.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

Speaker: Bryan Barley

Summary: Paul turns his attention to the complexities of work and generosity, and the dignity of hidden, "normal" labor.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

Summary: We see a shift in Paul's letter from what God has done to what we do in response to the Gospel. Paul shares how we handle sex in light of who God is and his invitation to holiness and honor.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Summary: We get a glimpse into Paul's agonizing wait to hear how his friends are doing, and his vulnerable expression of joy in response to a good report, helping us make sense of our own painful experiences of waiting on God.

Three Questions for Prayer:

1. The Waiting Question - what is God up to?

2. The Saying versus Praying Question - who have I talked to?

3. The Truth versus Love Question - where am I out of balance?

Speaker: Justin Almas

Passage: 1 Thess. 3:1-5

Summary: Since suffering is an inevitable part of living in a broken world, how we suffer matters. Suffering well requires us to anticipate, accept, and remain relational during suffering.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20

Summary: Much of the modern pursuit of isolation with dashes of digital community actually greatly harms us. We look at how Satan loves to draw us into isolation, and how one of the greatest gifts God gives us is the people he puts around us.

Text: 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

Summary: We look at Paul's example of what a godly dad does, and how these practices point us to the way our Heavenly Father has treated us in the Gospel.

Speaker: Bryan Barley