McDonough Christian Church

1 Thessalonians 5:1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  Will > When 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “There […]

The Father’s Heart Luke 15:11-32 Repentance Luke 15:17 When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!’ 2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their […]

Rapture and Return to Rule Earth (post trib.) VS Rapture and Remove from Earth  (pre trib.) Rapture – rapio (latin vulgate) to seize or snatch away 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together ( harpazó) with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we […]

John 12:23-24 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and […]

The worse things get now, the more you long for what’s next. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:14-16 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose […]

Return Ready Fatherhood 3 Marks of Return Ready Fatherhood 1.Being Fathered by God Ephesians 1:4-6 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to […]

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, Teachable John 14:26 […]

Authority, Identity, Sexuality. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 1 Thessalonians 4:2 For you know what instructions we gave you […]

What condition must we be in to be found acceptable to Jesus at His return? 2 Timothy 4:1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead.. Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, […]

1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you— Love looks backward and forward 1 Thessalonians 3:7-8 for this reason, […]

“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ― C.S. Lewis 1 Thessalonians 3:4-5 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that […]

1.How the body of Christ should feel about each other. 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, Torn away form – aporphanizó – to be left as an orphan Acts […]

1 Thessalonians 2:1-6 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does NOT spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, […]

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to […]

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly[a] mentioning you in our prayers, 3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 17:6 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the […]

Date – AD 49-51 Author- Paul Theme – 2nd Coming of Christ Purpose – Encouragement Acts 17:5-6 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. 6 […]

Hebrews 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be […]

Luke 23:26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, tocarry it behind Jesus. Mark 15:21-25 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his […]

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. What is a leader ? Why should we let them lead? How do we […]

Old Covenant vs New Covenant The sacrifice to avoid The Sacrifice to approach The sacrifice to offer The sacrifice to avoid – Hebrews 13:7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Hebrews 13:8-9 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday andtoday and forever. […]

Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Honor – Timios – of great price, precious, honored. Undefiled – Amiantos – unstained, set apart, free from contamination. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person […]

Hebrews 13:1-2 Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Brotherly Love = Philadelphia 1 John 3:16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. Information      Application    […]

The Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is anywhere where what God wants done, is done. Hebrews 12:18-19 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that […]

Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. He’s not asking to strive for something God hasn’t already given them. Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and […]

Hebrews 12:14-15a Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; What is Holiness? What does it mean to be Holy? Strive – diókó aggressively chase, like a hunter pursuing a prey Ephesians 1:4a even as he chose us […]