encouragement from the cross

1 Thessalonians 4:18 “Therefore encourage each other with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” Paul wanted the Thessalonian believers to be encouraged and built up from the gospel. It is the gospel that saves and sanctifies believers. Therefore, it is…

Looking to Good Friday

As we look toward the significance of Good Friday and Easter, check out Tiger Wood’s comments about religion: “In the Buddhist religion you have to work for it yourself, internally, in order to achieve anything in life and set up the next life… It is all about what you do and you get out of…

what’s important…

1 Thessalonians 5:17 “pray continually [without ceasing]” Colossians 4:2 “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” John 14:12-14 “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will…

Thessalonian Identity

Abel Madariaga  & Silvia Quintela of Buenos Aires, Argentina had a son. During a time of civil unrest in their country Abel’s son and pregnant wife were kidnapped by Argentine security forces in 1977. Hundreds of children were kidnapped and thousands were murdered as part of the 1976-1983 dictatorship’s “dirty war” against political dissidents. Abel…