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Paul's defence of his ministry:
  1 Thess 2

- Lack of trickery & people-pleasing
- Relational: lived amongst them

What Paul’s ministry does look like:

Steward (v. 3 - 6)
Approved by God
Status

Mother (v. 6b - 9)
Hard-working
Loving
Nurturing
Shared lives

Father (v. 10 - 12)
"Devout, honest, faultless" NLT
Urgent
Encouraging

Herald (v ( Read more... )

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Authority
Completion
Status

Eph 1 - 2:10

Jn 14: 1 - 14
2  My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I ( Read more... )

Will Rubie:  1 Thess 4

How to live one's life (literally, how to walk)

- Not an an admonishment from Paul but an encouragement: 
("we ask you & we urge you")

- To be sanctified, to be holy as God's holy people
- As a reflection of the character of God: connected to beauty & glory & splendour

re: v.7  that God called you (when we became ( Read more... )

Vez, this is for you ...
Read, study & abide again. x

My Child...

You may not know me, but I know everything about you.
I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
I am familiar with all your ways.

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
For you were made in my image.
In me you live and move and have your being ( Read more... )