This is an adaptation from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians. We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your pers...

This is an adaptation from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brot...

An excerpt from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians . 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus thos...

An excerpt from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians . 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the ...

The title of this week’s episode has multiple layers of meaning to it. On one level, it’s about how the warring factions of humans and Cylons are finding they have fewer and fewer options left to them for survival, as they draw closer to an inevitable final battle. On a second level, it&...

An excerpt from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians . Paul says that so far Satan has stopped him from returning to the Thessalonians. The Bible refers to Satan as an evil spirit who is capable of thinking, communicating, and producing various natural and mental effects. There are those theologian...

An excerpt from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians . Paul reminded the Thessalonians over and over again that they would be persecuted as Christians. Trials could cause some people's faith to become "unsettled." This effect can follow for a number of reasons. Perhaps after sufferin...

An excerpt from Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians . Statistics can be misleading – not the numbers as such, but the way they are gathered, presented, and interpreted. Even if the methods are honest and the numbers are accurate, there are some important questions that we must ask before accepti...

Well worth the lines I whizzed by the International Sportman’s Exposition last Thursday afternoon, and spent the better part of the day there the following Saturday. The first round was consumed primarily in ‘closed door chats’ - at this event it meant stopping every ten seconds fo...

I am honored to report that I was given a full page interview with photo in the cover story (translated: “What Really Happened in Bethlehem?) of the December 15, 2008 issue of Profil magazine.  Profil is the #1 newsweekly of Austria, also read widely in Germany, equivalent to Time or Newsweek...