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conflict, Joy, peacemaking, thanksgiving
Got this from Peacemakers last week. Meant to post it last week but things got away from me. It’s such good stuff I decided to post it this week. Not your average Thanksgiving fare. As usual, Paul [in Philippians 4:2-9] urges us to be God-centered in our approach to conflict. Moreover, he wants us to [...]
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praise, thanksgiving
The sharing of many of our people in our thanksgiving service for their gratitude to God in easy and hard providences alike this year is now on the web. You can listen to the audio here. As was copied in our bulletin this morning, here is the Puritan Valley of Vision prayer for praise and [...]
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giving thanks, obedience, spiritual life, thanksgiving
Our confession of faith makes it clear. The giving of thanks comprises an essential component of true worship. Under the heading of Religious Worship, and the Lord’s Day paragraph 3 begins, God requires all men to pray to Him, and to give thanks, this being one part of natural worship. Psalm 65:2 states Praise is [...]
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cancer, congregational life, prayer, thanksgiving, worship
The Lord’s Day tomorrow brings us a number of significant opportunities for gathering together as God’s people. We begin at 8:30 AM with corporate prayer for those who can participate. As it is the last Sunday of the month, a group of us will gather for prayer on the property where we intend to build. [...]
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cancer, death, healing, thanksgiving
Sweeter words a man has rarely heard. They came from the lips of my ENT on Wednesday. He spoke them after doing the upteenth exam on my mouth, tongue, and neck over the last five years, looking yet again for any evidences of cancer. The verdict? I can’t find anything wrong with you. Good thing [...]
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providence, spiritual growth, thanksgiving
Last night at Anchored Youth, I shared my testimony in a format that I learned from a pastor named John Piper (he may ring a bell for some of you). I wanted to share an abbreviated version of that with you in hopes that you will (a) learn a little more about the newest addition [...]
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praise, thanksgiving
Before I go any further, I have to say that no matter what the outcome of Susan’s hospital stay, God would still be good! For if we did not believe it, we could not finish the phrase “God is good” with “All the time” (and when in Digoland something about a high five…). None of [...]
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God's love, humility, pride, Puritans, sin, thanksgiving
The day before Thanksgiving seems to make such a question advisable. The Puritan Thomas Watson contended in his book, The Godly Man’s Picture, that, among other things, the goldy man is indeed a thankful man. Toward the close of his chapter on that notion, he raises the practical question as to what shall godly men, and [...]
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addiction, grace, heresy, knowledge of God, peace, sanctification, sin, thanksgiving
Among the things I give thanks to God for this Thanksgiving week is the grace He has given in delivering me over the years from enslaving sin. How does that happen? We find a significant key in Peter’s second epistle. Second Peter addresses a threat to the church of Jesus Christ in Peter’s day in [...]
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Paul's epistles, thanksgiving, worship
This coming Sunday brings us to our annual Thanksgiving service. I will not preach. Rather we will give the sermon time to congregational sharing. We will give thanks for God’s goodness and kindness to us in manifold ways. The Psalmist expressed his determination to do that very thing in the temple in places like Psalm 111:1. [...]
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