DON’T FORGET Today is Ash Wednesday Come by for Ashes in the Chapel 7-9am 11am – 1pm And then join us for Pancakes starting at 5:30pm and Worship at 6:45pm Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 5:3-11 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 5:1-2 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. Thought for the Day: Again, Paul, his colleagues and the Thessalonians had a certain expectation around a return
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 4:9-12 Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more, to aspire to live quietly,
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 4:1-8 Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 3:10-14 Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith. Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 3:5-9 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; I was afraid that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor had been in vain. But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love.
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 3:1-4 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we decided to be left alone in Athens; and we sent Timothy, our brother and co-worker for God in proclaiming the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you for the sake of your faith, so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions. Indeed, you yourselves know that
An Additional Thought… A humble man is not disturbed by praise. Since he is no longer concerned with himself, and since he knows where the good that is in him comes from, he does not refuse praise, because it belongs to the God he loves, and in receiving it he keeps nothing for himself but gives it all, with great joy, to his God. ~Thomas Merton
Continuing our study of 1st Thessalonians… Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 2:17-20 As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you—in person, not in heart—we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face. For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again—but Satan blocked our way. For what is our hope or