Hebrews 12:7-8 – It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Sometimes, a good parent allows a child … Read more
Exodus 20:12 – “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you…” Our culture has, tragically, erased the God-given gender distinctions. In an age of transgenderism, talk of people operating in set roles according to their God-given gender is culturally offensive, … Read more
Colossians 3:23 – Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men… In Paul’s day, and our own, there is a group of Christians who don’t want to work, expect the church or the government to provide for them from womb to tomb, are lazy, entitled, and make people feel guilty … Read more
2 Thessalonians 3:1-2 – Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. As the Thessalonians’ most senior human leader, Paul asks, “pray for us” (2 Thessalonians … Read more
2 Thessalonians 2:15 – So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. In this section of his letter to the new Christians in the church at Thessalonica, Paul is encouraging them to “stand firm” with “steadfastness” and not … Read more
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 – Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. In many battles, great sacrifices are made, including lives lost, to secure small areas of … Read more
2 Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction… Lord Acton writing to Bishop Creighton in 1887 made the now famous statement, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts … Read more
2 Thessalonians 1:9-10 – They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. … Read more
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God… The Bible is not anti-sex. The … Read more
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God… Christianity started out largely as a … Read more
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God… I was a very young pastor, new to ministry, and trying my best to … Read more
1 Thessalonians 4:1 – Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. The ancient city of Thessalonica, which I visited with our family some years ago, is a … Read more