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Continue reading →: The Patience of Hope: Lessons from 1 Thessalonians 1:3
Throughout these reflections we have already examined the first characteristic — the work of faith — and the second — the labor of love. We will now focus on the third: the patience of hope. It is essential to understand that when we approach the Holy Scriptures, we do not…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Paul’s Labor of Love in Thessalonians
In this teaching we are going to study the second characteristic that the apostle Paul identified as a manifestation of the kingdom of God in the community of faith at Thessalonica. To set the proper framework, let us recall that Paul’s first epistle to the Thessalonians is, as far as…

