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1-2 Thessalonians: A New Covenant Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the first century, the Thessalonian church grieved deaths in their community, endured harsh persecution, and struggled with questions about the future. Paul offered them the comforts and reassurances of hope in the Messiah Jesus. But he offered far more than wishful thinking or pie-in-the-sky comfort. Paul’s emphasis on hope in the Messiah Jesus involved capturing a vision of God’s redeemed...

Hope, in the Christian vocabulary, is a worldview word. If “faith” represents the reliance on an alternative reality based on the revelation of God according to his work and words vis-à-vis the past and present, then “hope” involves the sustaining of a present alternative view of reality based on what God has promised to do in the future. Christians do not look ahead simply in order to be done with life and float away to eternal bliss in heaven. They lean on hope to survive, live, and even thrive
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