Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

Motivated By Love

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14:  Let all that you do be done in love.” It is less than ten words, yet, like a small stick of dynamite, it contains enormous power. In fact, it is the greatest power in the earth. It heals hurts. It carries burdens. It lifts the downcast. It removes the dark clouds of depression. And in God’s work of the…

The Two Workings of God’s Grace

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” Today’s scripture might be considered one of those humanly irreconcilable dilemmas in our Bibles, not…

Heed the Examples

1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-13: For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that…

Truths Learned from the Apostle Paul’s
Prayer for the Thessalonians

In this most personal of letters from the Apostle Paul, he bears his heart of love to these Thessalonians. In doing so, he shows one of the highest displays of love for believers – praying. Lord willing, we will look at this prayer of the Apostle Paul for the Thessalonian believers and learn lessons about our God’s Person, His workings in the lives of His children, and the example of the Apostle Paul.