Paul had a very special relationship with the Christians in Philippi.  He had not even planned to go to Philippi but in the Macedonian vision God called him to go there.   When he got there he met Lydia and her friends worshipping God by the riverside.  He was thrown into jail after driving an evil […]

In Paul’s 1st letter to the Thessalonians, he continues some of the thoughts we mentioned earlier in Colossians 2.  There he wrote that the Christians who came to know about Jesus and about God’s Love should let it transform the way they lived before men, causing those lives to spill over in thanksgiving. In Thessalonians […]

Thanksgiving Spills Out As Paul wrote his great letter to the church in Colossae, he was writing to Christians whom he had never met.  He wanted to make them understand the depth of his love and concern for them, even though he might not know them personally. In Col. 2:1-2 he told them that he […]