This week we’ve reached Paul’s third missionary journey. This journey was much different from his first two. While those focused on evangelism, this third journey focused on encouraging the disciples in the areas Paul previously visited. Paul traveled to the churches
Paul wrote II Thessalonians about a year after he wrote the first letter to the Thessalonian believers. During the time between the two letters, the Thessalonians received false reports that the reason they were suffering so greatly was because the
We learned last week that Paul visited Thessalonica during his second missionary journey. The opposition forced him to leave the city quickly. So as he continued to travel, there’s no doubt that he continued to think about the Thessalonian believers
Welcome back as we continue our journey together through Paul’s missionary trips! Just before the Christmas break, we finished the book of Hebrews. Now we move back into the book of Acts. This week we’ll look at Paul’s second missionary
Faith. It’s easy to say you have faith in something or someone. Yet this is a challenging Christian doctrine. Faith is woven all throughout the book of Hebrews but especially in these last three chapters. The first verse of chapter 11 gives us
There is so much doctrine in these four chapters of Hebrews! I could go on and on about how Christ is the superior sacrifice, how He is our King and Priest in the order of Melchizedek, how thousands of years earlier
This section of Hebrews focuses on how Jesus is superior to the Jewish priesthood. There also is a brief change of topic when the writer warns the readers against laziness by not moving past basic Christian doctrines into “meatier” teachings
What a challenging Scripture! This portion of Hebrews emphasizes that Jesus is superior to mankind. These verses also warn against hardening our hearts by disobeying God, just like the Israelites did while wandering in the desert (Numbers 13-14). My favorite
For the next few weeks, we’ll be in Hebrews. Although we don’t know the author of Hebrews, we do know that this book was written to Jewish believers during the last 10 years of the time mentioned in Acts. Often Hebrews is
The great influx of Gentile believers was causing some rifts in the new church. Most notably, some Jewish Christians wanted the Gentile Christians to follow the Jewish laws and customs, including be circumcised. But Paul and Barnabas told these men that