Sermon Archives

Christianity is a ‘team sport’ and the Christian life should be lived in community. In 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28, we discover what that community should be like.

Some of us love to know all the details ahead of time so we plan accordingly. When it comes to the return of Jesus, we can’t know the specifics but we can still prepare, as 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 shows.

Death is a painful subject to consider and one that many of us are ignorance about. Therefore, we can tend to avoid it. In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Paul tackles it head on and shows how knowing the facts about death should give Christians hope and confidence.

One of the seven ‘signs of life’ in biology is growth. The same is true spiritually. As we learn in 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12, the Christian life is should be marked by progress.

We can easily make an idol of someone by putting them ahead of God. An equal and opposite danger is to never truly invest ourselves in others. In 1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:13, Paul shows us what it really looks like to invest in people.

In 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Paul defends himself against the charge that he preached with false motives. As he does, he also defines what true ministry looks like.

In 1 Thessalonians 1:7, we learn that this young church set an example for neighboring believers. We see this in the way they received the Word (6) and the way they relayed the Word (8). In all this they followed Christ, our true standard.

People often look to the origins of Apple or Amazon to discover the secret sauce of success. When it comes to Church growth, the church I Thessalonica isn’t a bad place to look: in many ways they were a model congregation. This week, we consider their textbook beginning and what it has to say to […]