As I sit here agonizing over Casey Anthony’s verdict of not guilty on all counts involving murder, I want to share my thoughts. Please hear me out. First of all, I think that this verdict is partly the fault of Nancy Grace and others who for so long made a career out of trying to [...]
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ONE SOLITARY LIFE He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never set foot inside a big city. He never traveled two [...]
The two aspects of the “parousia” & the epistle of 2 Thessalonians
Posted: November 5, 2010 in UncategorizedIn my last blog thread, I discussed the Rapture (“snatching away“) of the church from 1 Thessalonians, and mentioned that it is the next event on God’s prophetic timetable. In this thread, I want to back up and talk more in depth about the “parousia”, and then discuss 2 Thessalonians and how Paul wrote about [...]
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, “But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in [...]
As I study through the New Testament, one of the things that I find is that Jesus and the apostles constantly warned God’s people that difficulties, trials and persecutions awaited them, and that they should not be surprised or taken off guard if they encounter such things. This of course flies in the face of [...]
Our text: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 – “For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.” [...]
