Before this series began, I studied my way through 1 and 2 Thessalonians and began to draft a preaching calendar. I confess that, as I initially prepared that calendar, I looked at this passage and wondered “What am I going to say about this?” At first glance, this passage is pretty straightforward. He missed the […]

I mentioned last week that the church in Thessalonica was a young church. We don’t know exactly how long Paul was able to minister to them before being chased out of town, but it was likely no more than six months. Can you imagine if you had only been a Christian for six months when, […]

For the next three months, we are going to walk through the Apostle Paul’s letters to the church in Thessalonica. Before we study any letter, we need to spend a few minutes clarifying the context. This is likely going to feel like an information overload, but we’ll repeat a bunch of this information in the […]