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Jared Smith
Nov 10, 20223 min read
No Work, No Food
Anyone who has been raised, unbeknownst to them, steeped in the culture of the protestant work ethic has heard a paraphrase of the...
Christopher Diebold
Nov 3, 20223 min read
The Armor of God
While the bulk of Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians is concerned with the Day of the Lord, in the third chapter he turns to some...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 26, 20223 min read
Reflecting on the Goal of Election
As Paul offers God’s decree of election as the firm foundation upon which his readers stand to find comfort and be established in every...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 20, 20223 min read
Two Functions of Knowledge in Our Lives
As Paul turns in 2 Thessalonians 2 to a relatively lengthy teaching section on the topic of the Day of the Lord and the Man of...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 12, 20224 min read
Talking About Judgment
In 2 Thessalonians, after Paul gives thanks to God for the church’s growing faith and love, especially because it has come in the face of...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 3, 20223 min read
Repetition and the Christian Life
The New Testament contains 13 letters written by Paul, but we know that Paul wrote more than 13 letters to the many churches and...
Christopher Diebold
Sep 27, 20223 min read
Our Composition as Humans
As I briefly mention in my sermon, Paul’s words in his prayer in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 about being kept blameless in our “whole spirit and...
Christopher Diebold
Sep 21, 20224 min read
Making Sense of the Spirit's Gifting
Paul’s exhortation to the Thessalonians not to quench the Spirit and not to despise prophecy raises the question of how the Spirit’s...
Jared Smith
Sep 14, 20223 min read
Personalities & Presbyterian Polity
“A pastor should blend in with the furniture.” This is a favorite quote of mine by Lutheran pastor, Rev. Hans Fiene, concerning pastoral...
Christopher Diebold
Sep 8, 20223 min read
The Day of the Lord
In the last part of 1 Thessalonians 4, Paul focused on offering comfort to those who grieved over deceased fellow believers. He was...
Christopher Diebold
Aug 30, 20223 min read
The Return of Christ
As he begins his treatment of the return of Christ, Herman Bavinck writes, “The course and outcome of world history are very different...
Christopher Diebold
Aug 23, 20223 min read
Love, Work, and Generosity
As the Session was looking ahead through the upcoming readings in Revelation, one of the elders noted how long the world laments the fall...
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