Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. Paul had ample reason to commend the church in Thessalonica.  They clearly had gotten some things right.  Of course, just like any other church in any other time or place, the brothers and sisters in ancient Thessalonica were not perfect.  They…

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.             It can become easy for us to feel…

Here we are again.  This is the sixteenth time that we at West Metro have watched our young men and women graduate to enter the work force, to enter college, and to begin their adult lives.  It is interesting to consider that the high school class of 2015 was also the birth class of 1997…

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. I like things the way I like them (I know it is an odd sentence, but I think you know what I mean).  There are times when I shake my head and think, “If everyone would just see/think/do X the way…

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Under the Law of Moses, testimony from only one person was not valid.  In order for a charge to be established against a person, at least two witnesses had to testify (Deut 19:15; Matt 18:16).  If the…