Theme: The promise of the Lord's coming gives us comfort with regard to fellow believers who sleep in death.

Theme: We must seek to let our brotherly love in Christ grow as a witness to the world.

Theme: As part of our walk in Christ, we must be sanctified in the area of sexuality.

Theme: The joy of our salvation expresses itself in the wishes of each other's blessedness.

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.