Tag: epistle

  • a brief Epistle from Paul to Ephesus

    ACTS 20 – a farewell meeting We have recently been reading some of Paul’s early letters to churches. Now the Apostle sends a brief Epistle to Ephesus to set up a parting embrace with the leaders of the Ephesian Church before the apostles sail toward home. Previously we learned that an epistle is not simply…

    Acts 20: 13 But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.
  • Thessalonians and the Righteous Judgment of God

    Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians WHY are the Thessalonians so special to Paul that the Apostle would write not…

    Paul sends two Epistles to the Thessalonians from Corinth or Athens
  • II Thessalonians Intro – It is meet and right so to do..

    Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is meet and right so to do. Book of Common Prayer – Celebration of Holy Communion Order One in Traditional language We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of…

    view of Roman Arch and Rotunda in Thessalonica