Thanksgiving

Current culture would have us believe that Thanksgiving is a secular holiday, unrelated to religion. NOT. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in centuries old traditions of giving thanks and praising God for bountiful blessings from His provision. The American...

Job On Gratitude

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” Job 1:20-21 ESV...

Gratitude, The Root of Both Goodness And Happiness

“The man bowed low in homage to the Lord.” Genesis 24:26 Here we have the Servant of Abraham recognizing and acknowledging the obvious movement of God in the tide of the affairs of man. Some translations say “he bowed his head.” Whether he...

Thanksgiving, A Time Of Gratitude

It is Thanksgiving week in the United States. A time of gratitude. Gratitude: noun: a joyful thankfulness, a desire and readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness; a sentiment of kindness or goodwill toward a benefactor. For the Christian, gratitude...

On Gratitude /5

Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. Colossians 3:16 CSB We end our retrospective on gratitude where we began....