Theme: The good news of enduring faith brings comfort to one another and praise to God.

Theme: Because tribulation and persecution will come, we must help establish one another's faithfulness to Christ.

Theme: The temporal nature of our fellowship in Christ makes the hope of our eternal fellowship in heaven all the sweeter.

Theme: The way in which those who receive the gospel are willing to suffer for doing so is something that shows forth its truth as a message from God.