Turning Your Complaints into Gratitude – A Great Challenge

Turning Your Complaints into Gratitude – A Great Challenge – “Kevin lays down a great challenge—to deliberately labor to turn your complaints into gratitude. You will know, of course, that only one of those comes naturally!”

 

8 Most Popular Bible Verses During Thanksgiving

8 Most Popular Bible Verses During Thanksgiving – “Bible readers seem to prefer to read verses from Psalms more than any other book of the Bible during Thanksgiving.”

 

Controlling the Chaos of the Holiday Season

Controlling the Chaos of the Holiday Season – “Stress studies show that a sense of control is essential to mental health. Those who survive captivity with the fewest mental scars are those who maintain as much control as possible even when so much is out of their control.”

3 Urgent Reasons You Should Preach on Thanksgiving RIGHT NOW

3 Urgent Reasons You Should Preach on Thanksgiving RIGHT NOW – We may need to talk about thanksgiving throughout the year and not just in November.

The Hallmark of Genuine Christianity

The Hallmark of Genuine Christianity – “What is the hallmark of genuine Christianity? What is the outward sign that a person is truly Christian, or that a community of Christians is the real thing? What is the inevitable fruit of obeying the gospel? There are many potential hallmarks…” Here is one that may be often overlooked.

Why Every Day is Thanksgiving

Why Every Day is Thanksgiving – “Psalm 100:5 gives three reasons why every day is a day of thanksgiving.”

Benefits of Giving Thanks

Benefits of Giving Thanks – Good things happen to us when choose to be thankful.

10 Rock-Solid Reasons To Be Thankful

10 Rock-Solid Reasons To Be Thankful – “No matter our circumstances, every Christian has a lot to rejoice about. Here are 10 of many spiritual realities we can always be thankful for.”

Benefits of Giving Thanks

Benefits of Giving Thanks – “Though our US holiday of Thanksgiving is over, giving thanks should continue. This year I saw some benefits to thanksgiving, some of which I don’t remember noticing before.”

Injustice: The Gratitude Snatcher

Injustice: The Gratitude Snatcher – “No one wants to walk in ingratitude, and yet gratitude can be so quickly snatched from us.”

10 Ways to Redefine Gratitude

10 Ways to Redefine Gratitude – “By redefining how we think about gratitude our journey of faith doesn’t have to be just seen through the lens of success—or failure.”

 

The Spiritual Discipline of Thanksgiving

The Spiritual Discipline of Thanksgiving – “Nowhere does the Bible say thanking God is easy. But nowhere does the Bible say thanking God is optional. It’s not a practice reserved only for the good times. It’s a spiritual discipline necessary at all times.”

Three Habits of Gratitude God Wants Us to Develop

Three Habits of Gratitude God Wants Us to Develop – “You can incorporate any—or all—of these expressions of gratitude into your worship service this weekend. They are everyday habits of a grateful heart.”

What Is Thanksgiving Day?

What Is Thanksgiving Day? – “What does it benefit us to know that God creates and sustains all things? The answer is it gives patience in adversity and gratitude in prosperity.”

The Irony of Thanksgiving

The Irony of Thanksgiving – “When non-Christians give thanks for all God has made, it’s the essence of irony. They enjoy his gifts and express thanks but deny the Giver.”

15 Things You Might Forget to Be Thankful For

15 Things You Might Forget to Be Thankful For – “Maybe it would be a lot easier for you to make a list of disappointments and difficulties than a list of things you’re thankful for this year. Wherever you find yourself this Thanksgiving, God is worthy of your thanksgiving, even if your circumstances are not.”

The Discipline of Thanksgiving

The Discipline of Thanksgiving – “Here are five reasons we may find it hard to practice giving thanks, and how the discipline of thanksgiving keeps us focused.”

Pray Your Way into Thanksgiving

Pray Your Way into Thanksgiving – “Negatively, aim by prayer to be done with anxiety. And positively, aim by prayer to enjoy constant peace.”

Thanksgiving Makes Me Hungry

Thanksgiving Makes Me Hungry – “His banquet is the one soul-satisfying feast that will never ever end.”

On Thankfulness

On Thankfulness – “This is a truth we all need to learn. “God, by definition, does not do things that are not good. He is goodness. He cannot act otherwise.”