Day 320 - Monday after the 25th Sunday after Pentecost

Read | Next | Day 320 | Monday | November 16 Acts 17: 16-34 Acts 18: 1-3 1   Thessalonians 1: 1, 2-10 1   Thessalonians 2: 1-16, 17– 3: 13 1   Thessalonians 4: 1-12, 13– 5: 11  

St Paul by James Tissot
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Date: about 49 a.d.
Reading | Paul continues to preach in Athens about the unknown God who is Jesus; went to Corinth; Wrote to the Thessalonians; we thank God Daily for your faith; Paul remembers his visit; Timothy gives a good report to Paul about the church there; message - live to please God, the hope of the resurrection.

Background | The Center for Biblical Studies | 1 Thessalonians | The book of Acts records Paul’s work in Thessalonica with Silas (chapter 17). Paul likely wrote a letter to these believers from Corinth. Scholars are largely in agreement that this letter was written around AD 50 and is the oldest of Paul’s surviving letters.

Paul and Silas had to leave Thessalonica abruptly due to riots caused by jealous Jews (see Acts 17:5-10). They had not been there long, and so the converts were left to fend for themselves, and thus fell prey to influences that undermined Paul and Silas’s work. Paul wrote this letter to encourage and instruct these recent converts in matters of proper conduct in daily life as well as the question of Christ’s second coming.

On the latter point, believers in Thessalonica were concerned that some believers had already died and yet Christ had still not returned.  more - click here

Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here |

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Listen and pray | Book of Common Prayer | The Episcopal Parish of Garrett County - Maryland USA | Via Mission St Clare | Click here

Pray for the people in Paris and all experience acts of war, terrorism, and the dislocated. Pray for those who are enemies and who persecute the faithful to Jesus.