Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

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Work is good for ever…

If you are human, you know our hearts have a tendency to wander a bit.  A big challenge of life is to steer them in the right direction and then keep them on the path you desire.

This is exactly the w…

Timothy asks for PRAYER that the Word of God SPEED AHEAD. He requests that by the fundamental spiritual reality of conversation with God, that another fundamental spiritual process will thrive.

By the…

What good is eternal comfort now? Does eternal comfort do anything practical for me in the here and now? Silas makes an argument that attaching ourselves to eternal comfort, gives us current comfort,…

A people get a spiritual prize they did not win; they receive a trophy they did not merit; they get GLORY they did not EARN.  Such is Christianity.  

Then, there is Christian COMMUNITY, where one can …

Today we'll hear about a group of people that refuse to love the truth; that do not believe the truth and that even take pleasure in doing the wrong thing. These are people who have the "FOREVER BUS"…

A spiritual FOREVER BUS is coming to this earth.  In it, Jesus is going to gather up believers and those who believed until their deaths. From then on, they get to always be with the Lord.

The Thessal…

God's justice is featured in today's passage.  It affect believers NOW and LATER.  It affects those opposed to God NOW and LATER. Let's find out how in a 7 minute podcast. We are heading toward marve…

Another great place to start is right here.  Listen for 7 minutes a day as we walk through the book of 2 Thessalonians one bite at a time.  Click on the hyperlink for today's episode or subscribe for…

Imagine walking through 1st Thessalonians in 7 minute segments of consideration. 
Imagine 26 thoughts of summary that put the whole arc together. 
Imagine this as its' own 7 minute episode.  
Imagine th…

Are you in a Christian Community?  There is no such thing as Christianity without community.
Are you in a Community of AFFECTION? Your community should be characterized by warmth and affection as you …

Paul leaves his first letter to the citizens of Thessalonia with a blessing.  It is a prayer, it is a plea, it is a charge and it is based on the character of God.  I have stolen this prayer for you.…

Imagine if we had some sort of a warning system that gave us a heads-up about incoming EVIL.  We'd be all primed and ready for the sneaky threats of evil so we'd be ready to respond right and immedia…

To HOLD ON to something good means first to LET GO of the bad. That is the discernment process. It sometimes can be exhausting.  We are to test and discard all the bad stuff.  He's made most of it pl…

Be careful here.  We can, just like in 50AD, DESPISE what God says.  The mechanisms of the revelations to us might be a little different, but the principle of our despising can be the same.  We both …

Rather than walking with...I choose to go ALONE
Rather than keeping in step with...I choose to find my own way
Rather than teaching...I choose ignorance
Rather than hearing...I choose silence
Rather than…

The bar for Christian gratefulness is set very high. Grateful people are no accident. We are charged to push out stuff that isn't grateful, and to push in gratefulness to our hearts and then to our l…

This might be a little heretical, but I think it is helpful to think about LOWERING the bar for prayer. We get our undies in a crumple about composing complex prayers overing confusing situations, an…

You will probably encounter EVIL today.
You won't be inclined to leave this evil for the ultimate justice of God
Your inclination will be to REPAY that evil for your evil thereby making the situation d…