Sermon Video Introduction: Virtues, like vices, are like grapes—they come in clusters. Paul is following his usual pattern here, which is to conclude his letter with a burst of ethical exhortations, ...
A Cluster of Exhortations
The Day of the Lord
Sermon Video Introduction: As we work through this next portion of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians, we want to continue to hold the various elements of “the last things” loosely, and ...
Earthly Good and the Heavenly Mind
Sermon Video Introduction: In the next portion of this letter from Paul, we find a marvelous balance between our daily mundane concerns and our ultimate eschatological concerns. A taunt is sometimes ...
Not Like the Gentiles
Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the passage in Thessalonians that addresses the vast difference between the Christian sexual ethic and a pagan sexual ethic. We want to be careful here ...
Face to Face
Sermon Video Introduction: The first letter to the Thessalonians was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and is a portion of the Word of God. But at the same time, it was Paul’s second choice. What ...
The Mines of Difficulty
Sermon Video Introduction: The second stanza of an old Isaac Watts hymn asks quite a reasonable question. It is a question that we—accustomed as we are to many creature comforts—should be ...
How to Hear a Sermon
Sermon Video Introduction: In the first half of this chapter, Paul has recounted for the Thessalonians the kind of character that he and his co-workers displayed when they labored there in Thessalonica. ...
True Ministry
Introduction: When we get to the second chapter of this epistle, the apostle Paul reminds them of how it was that the gospel was first brought to them. We know that Paul was only there for three ...
Much Assurance in Trouble
Sermon Video Introduction: Philosophers call one branch of their discipline epistemology. This is the branch of philosophy that seeks to answer the question of how we know what we know. And then, ...