Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4

God’s Discipline: Punitive or Instructive?
What comes to mind when you hear the word “discipline?” You probably think of either punishment—like…

Caskets and Crowns: Grieving with Hope through Heaven’s Eyes
Ten unexpected deaths in three consecutive months. My Filipino community experienced this ordeal during the recent…

Leadership in Moments of Crisis: A Ministry of Presence
In 2 Corinthians 1:3–5, we read about God using our own experiences to enable us to…

Leading Like Jesus…with TLC
Many people use the initials TLC to mean tender, loving care. When we look at the…

Building Bridges, Cultivating Community: Leadership In Houston
LEADERSHIP EXAMPLES AT HOMEThe development of leaders begins in childhood. The qualities and character people bring…

Riot of Ephesus: The Challenge of a New Identity in Christ
Excavations at Ephesus enable us to picture what we read in Acts. Archaeologists have discovered the…

Leadership Lessons From the Life of Moses
As a young seminarian in the mid-1980s, I carried pain from my family’s past. The origin…

Portrait of a Small-Church Leader
Before I became a DTS student, my wife and I were members of Bethany Bible Church…

Thinking Christianly About Burial and Cremation – Classic
In this classic episode, Kymberli Cook and Dr. Michael J. Svigel discuss thinking Christianly about burial…

What Happens When We Die? – Classic
In this classic episode, Kymberli Cook, Mikel Del Rosario, Drs. Gary Habermas and Daniel Hill discuss…

Walking with God Through Grief
Some of us know that a certain kind of anger in grief is not inappropriate. While…

Dealing with Grief and Anxiety
In this episode, Kymberli Cook, Bill Hendricks, Dr. Andi Thacker, and Joe Riegel discuss grief, focusing…

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Mirror-Reading Occasional Letters
Reading the New Testament, especially the Pauline letters, is like listening to one end of a…

Leading with Courage and Compassion – Classic
In this classic episode, Mikel Del Rosario, Dr. Darrell L. Bock, and Bill Hendricks discuss leading…

Thinking Christianly About Burial and Cremation
In this episode, Kymberli Cook and Dr. Michael J. Svigel discuss thinking Christianly about burial and…

Leading with Courage and Compassion
In this episode, Mikel Del Rosario, Dr. Darrell L. Bock, and Bill Hendricks discuss leading with…

A Visual and Martial Arts Sensei: Profile of Keith D. Yates
Sometimes when I meet a person whose face may not be famous but whose reputation is…

Shaped By the Future: Reclaiming the Hope of Eschatology
Their response is often “eschatology schmeschatology, I am a panmillennialist; it will all pan out in…

Ask Dr. Swindoll – Advice for Preachers and Finishing Well
I don’t want to retire. I don’t play golf—the holes are too little. And I think…

A Response from Dallas Theological Seminary to Today’s Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
With the verdict of the Supreme Court today that legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States,…

Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
Excerpted from Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home, by Gloria Furman (MA/CE, 2007). Today’s…

Living with a Disability
Members of the DTS family talk about what it’s like to live with disability—from the perspective…

Take Your Faith to Work
Bill Peel (ThM, 1976), executive director of LeTourneau University’s Center for Faith and Work, describes three…