Category: 1 & 2 Thessalonians

Peace and Grace

This second letter to the Thessalonians ends using the same words Paul used to start it: Peace and Grace. Words used to encourage these believers enduring both persecution and tribulation. And what beautiful words to finish our study today! Peace and Grace to you, dear friend. After these six weeks

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Work Your Garden

At the beginning of this letter, Paul praises the Thessalonians for their faith and reminds them their emboldened example is raised high. “For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the

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Gospel-Focused Prayer

Every night I hear a spunky little girl pray her guts out, and every night without fail she ends her conversation with God with the same passionate request. “God, and please let everyone in the whole world love and worship You.” You guys, that line gets me every time. Why?

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God Chose YOU!

God chose you… Let that truth sink deep into your heart. I don’t know what this past week has held for you. Maybe you’ve been passed over for a promotion…yet again. Maybe you were served divorce papers you didn’t see coming. Maybe you keep seeing pictures of friends getting together

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Making The Difference In The World

Our beloved Thessalonians were facing such hard trials and persecution they thought they were living the day of the Lord, the time of the tribulation. Paul sends them this second letter to calm their hearts and remind them that the day of the Lord wouldn´t come until certain events had

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Focus On What Has Been Revealed

People love to make predictions, from the outcome of a sports game to the weather for the next week, to investment opportunities. Predictions are made every day. Even in religion, you can find predictions, especially when it involves Jesus’ return. There are predictions about His return that have been made

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Walk Worthy

My husband and I cuddled on the couch one night to watch a movie we felt we could both enjoy. With popcorn ready to go, we pressed play on a story that had Sandra Bullock (my favorite actress) and football (a manly theme for my husband). We both got lost

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The Hope of Christ’s Return

The Thessalonian church was growing in faith and increasing in love for one another (2 Thess. 1:3). If I asked you, you probably would say faith and love are two areas in which you want to grow. But growing has a price not many of us are willing to pay.

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Growing Faith. Increasing Love

“Paul, Silas and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more

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Love, Serve, Hope

Paul concludes this letter to the church of Thessalonica with a prayer of hope. This young established church of new Christians had faced great opposition and persecution in the one year it had been in existence. Yet through all the severe trials they endured, the Thessalonians remained utterly dependent on

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