Paul is thankful to God that the Thessalonians had responded in the right way to the preaching of the Gospel.  They realized it was a message from God and not some human inventions and because of that they had believed the word and been saved.  This word had done a...

Paul is praying that God would give the Thessalonians a greater appreciation of God’s love for them and faithfulness in the midst of all their earthly trouble that can only come from Christ. This would allow their love and endurance to increase. The only way we can...

In this section of Scripture Paul is saying that the Christians who have died are with the Lord, so we should not be sad like the world and their bodies will rise first from the grave at the coming of the Lord. He says the dead in Christ will rise first then the...

Paul is giving a series of commands as he ends 1 Thessalonians and here he tells them not to stop the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives, that is quenching the Spirit. It is the picture of throwing water on a fire. Apparently during this time when the word of...

Between Paul’s teaching in 2:1-12 and his encouragements in 3:1-15 he prays for the Thessalonians. He prays for their encouragement and strength. He prays to the first two persons of the trinity and thereby shows their equality. Paul prays for God to comfort and...

God did write Job's words down forever in His Word for those of us who know Christ and need a deeper walk with the Him and secondly it gives hope to those of us who are going through tough times and don’t always know why. We need to remember no matter what we are...

Unfortunately, Eliphaz was accusing Job of sin when He spoke these words to Job and telling him to repent and get right with God. Fortunately for us we can take these words as an admonition to us to listen to God and let His word be our guide in all areas of life....

Many want to ignore or change these verses which teach that a woman is not to be a pastor, the teacher of a mixed bible study class, or in any position of authority in teaching the bible to men.  You cannot ignore the bible or change the bible.  Paul gives two...

Here Paul gives us the God ordained qualifications for a pastor and it is one who is to be a man whose character is without reproach. This is the main qualification, does he have character that cannot be a discredit to the name of Christ and the Church.  He also...

Paul exhorts Timothy to watch his personal life closely and his teaching carefully. Timothy is not only to watch over others as a pastor, but to make sure his life continues to be faithful in all areas. Pastors and all of us fail at times in this. We are better at...