Encourage One Another: Sharing Grace to Receive Grace - a devotional
Welcome to the Tuesday devotional. My name is Daniel Douglas, and I am a clergy candidate for the position of local pastor. I asked Pastor Karen for some experience in the pulpit. We decided it was best to start small with this devotional. How are you feeling these days? Or, as John Wesley liked to ask, how goes it with your soul? Is it charged up and ready to go? Or I’m suspecting that, like many of us, you could use some encouragement. That brings us to today’s devotional verse - 1 Thessalonians 5:11, where Paul writes, “This is why you must encourage and help each other, just as you are already doing.” Some other translations say, “Bring hope” or “Build each other up.” Having been through the most recent months, the never-ending election, the pandemic, good and bad times can happen - and change - very quickly. Even the next phone call or text message could be the difference between a great day and a lousy one. This week, I got the dreaded phone call stating that there were potent