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  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-15

    After encouraging the Thessalonians about those who have died, Paul exhorts them concerning the treatment of others. First, he instructs them to appreciate their preachers and teachers—those who have charge over them in the Lord and give instruction. This instruction particularly concerns the congregation’s treatment of their pastors or positional elders. We are to esteem…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

    Paul does not want the Thessalonians to be uninformed concerning those who are asleep, or their brothers and sisters in the faith who have died. Whatever Paul is about to write is about a particular type of rapture, but not a future, secret rapture of all the saints all at once prior to a greater…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

    Once again, Paul praises the love that the Thessalonians have for one another and encourages them to excel still more. He instructs them to make it their ambition to lead a quiet life, attend to their own business, and work with their hands. This is quite the opposite objective from that of worldly ambition. Worldly…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

    Paul encourages the saints in Thessalonica to continue being sanctified. Sanctification, in this sense, is the process by which Christians become more like Christ. Sanctification is complete when we are fully like Christ. Paul praises the Thessalonians for walking according to Christian instruction. He admonishes them to excel still more. We are always to excel…

  • DAily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13

    DAily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13

    Paul spends another chapter telling the Thessalonians how thankful to God he is for them. Since he could not make it to Thessalonica, he sent Timothy. He feared that Satan tempted them and rendered his own gospel work in vain, but Timothy reported the success of the gospel in their lives. Paul was worried for…

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12

    Paul, and those with him when he visited Thessalonica, shared the gospel free of monetary charge in the midst of great oppression while they were there. The Thessalonian church is now made up of people who believed despite oppression from both Jews and gentiles in their city. Paul is greatly encouraged and praises the church. …

  • Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-4

    Daily Devotional: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-4

    Paul has Silvanus and Timothy with him. As is customary for Paul, he includes them in the writing of his letter. He writes to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ—that is in His name. Paul’s trinitarian theology shows at the start. Paul begins with a blessing: Grace…

  • Daily Devotional: Genesis 33:1-17

    Daily Devotional: Genesis 33:1-17

    Jacob expects enmity and hostility from Esau. After all, he stole Esau’s birthright and inheritance. Yet, Esau greets Jacob as a brother with no hostility toward him whatsoever. We often expect trouble as we go, so we, like Jacob, fret and prepare. We spend our rime worrying about the future, and the problems we perceive…