Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about 2nd Thessalonians.

We're going to talk about 2nd Thessalonians in just a minute, but before we do, I thought

of a trick that I used to keep straight all of these books as start with a letter T that

are all clumped together in the middle of the New Testament.

Every book that starts with the letter T is together in a row, five of them.

Then the way you can remember what order they appear in is that they're all alphabetical.

1st and 2nd Thessalonians is TH.

1st and 2nd Timothy, that's TI, and then Titus, which is also TI, is T-I-T-U-S.

So it comes last.

Look at that.

They're an alphabetical order.

Now you'll always remember where all of the T books go and what order they appear in.

2nd Thessalonians though.

We talked in our last conversation about Acts 17, where we get the story of how Paul founded

the church in Thessalonica, and the immediate challenges he was confronted there, and how

their training was incomplete because Paul had to flee to keep from getting killed.

So Paul moves on relatively quickly to Corinth, where he writes back a couple of letters

to these Christians in Thessalonica.

So the memory is still fresh for him of what's going on there.

And it would appear that the two big problems that are facing the church in Thessalonica,

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