Tag: God

  • Sanctification and your Walk Toward Holiness

    WHAT IS SANCTIFICATION and WHY DOES IT MATTER? Walking instructions to please God more SOUNDS LIKE GOOD FATHERLY ADVICE, doesn’t it? Allow me to tell you a story about a letter. ONCE UPON A TIME there were some gentile pigs (as Jews supposed them to be) who having fled their straw and stick houses to…

    1 Thessalonians - Paul, Silas & Timothy send a letter from Corinth to the church of the Thessalonians to encourage them in their sanctification in Christ. Google Earth map of the Aegean.
  • If God wills – a Mission ends, a Journey Home

    ACTS of the Apostles 18: θεοῦ θέλοντος – theos thelō – that is: IF GOD WILLS. Not only is this Paul’s response to many who urge the Apostle to stay longer on his second missionary journey, but once the Apostle returns home we will see this familiar approach in a third missionary journey. God wills it. WHY…

    But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus. Conclusion of the second missionary journey of Paul from Acts 18
  • Death, Judgment and Resurrection in light of your own

    For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.” Acts of the Apostles 17:31 NIV – the Apostle Paul to the men of Athens at Mars Hill The Good News…

    After Paul's speech at Mars Hill about the unknow god the Apostle departs for Corinth even though a few wanted to know more about the resurrection of of the dead and Jesus a human Son of God