Month: April 2022

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 It’s not entirely fair or universally true, but whatever scenario I’m in, I sometimes find myself dividing the world into two kinds of people: Those who do one thing and those who do the other. In reading today’s…
Read more

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But…
Read more

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God . . . the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden…
Read more

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 In my addiction, I used chemicals that dramatically altered the way I felt. Basically, my emotions were suppressed by the high of the drug so…
Read more

. . . Work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 Recovery from an addiction takes hard work and commitment to lasting change, which is why so many struggle to find it. We’ve spent years training (damaging) our…
Read more

But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you . . . 1 Thessalonians 4:10-11 I’ve known more than a few people over the years who would qualify as busybodies. I’m…
Read more

This is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 I once met a man who struggled his…
Read more

We ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 There was a time, during my active addiction, that my thoughts were consumed with getting, using,…
Read more

May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father . . . 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 During my college years, I worked a couple of summers in the Black…
Read more

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. 1 Thessalonians 3:5 Before my wife agrees to watch a movie that I’ve recommended, she always asks, Does it have a happy…
Read more