Make It Your Ambition

Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4:11: “and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you” (NASB). For “ambition,” ESV uses the word “aspire” and the...

Faith, Love & Hope

I’m reading 1 Thessalonians for my month of reading (I’ll post about that another time), and I’ve been fascinated with reading this: “We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love,...