…encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.  1 Thessalonians [2:12]  Around 50 AD, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to a church in Thessalonica that he had founded just three months earlier. The letter today is called 1st Thessalonians in the New Testament. The letter’s purpose was to instruct those in the church to not give […]