We talked about Paul’s thankfulness for the Philippians because of all the things they had done for him, but it is interesting to note that he had similar feelings for the Christians in Colossae even though he didn’t know them personally and they hadn’t done special things for him.  How could that be? Look at […]

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 […]