by MJR | Sep 8, 2020 | Only Hope
“As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more” (1 Thessalonians 3:1-2) How many times have you asked what...
by MJR | Sep 7, 2020 | Only Hope
“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his...
by MJR | Sep 4, 2020 | Only Hope
Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. – 1 Thessalonians 3:10 What does it mean to pray earnestly? I remember the story of my grandfather leaving a puddle of tears as he prayed at the altar in his...
by MJR | Sep 3, 2020 | Only Hope
“So when we could stand it no longer, we thought it best to be left by ourselves in Athens. We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, so that no one...
by MJR | Sep 2, 2020 | Only Hope
“But, brothers and sisters, when we were orphaned by being separated from you for a short time (in person, not in thought), out of our intense longing we made every effort to see you. For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan...
by MJR | Sep 1, 2020 | Only Hope
“For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They...
