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Before the Apostle Paul wrote Romans or Ephesians, he sent a pair of letters to a new church in Thessalonica. Three concerns governed these letters: What makes a healthy church? How should we view God’s Word? What does the ideal Christian life look like? Richard D. Phillips considers Paul’s foundational emphases in a scholarly, pastoral, and practical manner. He also explores Paul’s end-times...

lives, a point that highlights the importance of biblical eschatology to the Christian. The Greek word eschatos means “last,” so eschatology is simply the study of the last things. According to the Bible, believers need to know where history is going, in terms of both our personal histories beyond the grave and God’s plan for the future of the world. Geerhardus Vos asserted: “Ours is a religion whose centre of gravity lies beyond the grave in the world to
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