At 16, a mission to Honduras with my father was an eye-opening experience that left an incredible mark on my soul. I found myself in a foreign land, surrounded by poverty and heart wrenching realities that I had never encountered before.
One particular night, our bus pulled into a dimly lit gas
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Giving Thanks for Fleas
Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place relates an incident that taught her an important principle. She and her sister, Betsy, had just been transferred to the worst German prison camp they had seen yet, Ravensbruck.
Upon entering the barracks, they found them extremely
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
Give Thanks in All Circumstances
(I Thessalonians 5:18)
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties,
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Contributed by James Dina on Dec 5, 2020
"In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
If it is the will of God that we should give thanks in everything, then we should reduce our complain lest we go against His will. COMPLAINING IS CONTRARY TO THANKSGIVING.
In
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Nov 20, 2023
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You would think giving thanks would come easily and naturally but, for me and I suppose others, it often times doesn’t. So, with the season of Thanksgiving upon us I thought I’d write this little guide for my benefit and hopefully for yours.
Give thanks for the good things
This is the easy one.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2002
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THE POWER OF GIVING THANKS
Something to reflect on as you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner:
If you had been a Pilgrim, would you have given thanks?
Consider what they had been through, the men and women who broke bread together on that first Thanksgiving in 1621.
They had uprooted
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 15, 2004
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HOW ROBINSON CRUSOE GIVES THANKS
The apostle Paul didn’t say to give thanks “for” all circumstances, but “in” all circumstances. All our circumstances in life are not good, but there will always be something in those circumstances for which to give thanks.
When Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2008
What’s giving Thanks all about
A. The pilgrims did it
1. In 1621, the pilgrims celebrated the first harvest at Plymouth
2. To them, it was a religious holiday celebrating all that God gave them
The Pilgrim Proclamation of 1623
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 7, 2012
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HOW TO GIVE THANKS IN THE MIDST OF LOSS
When you've lost something or someone precious, it is easy to forget that "the Lord gives and the Lord takes away." He doesn't owe us a reason.
John Claypool was a pastor in Louisville, Kentucky many years ago. He and his wife lost their daughter, Laura
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It has been said that "Giving thanks is a course from which we never graduate" (Eleanor Doan’s The Speaker’s Sourcebook. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988, p. 262).
A father was trying not only to share his joy and express his gratitude as he also tried to get his daughter
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
"We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Active faith gives thanks for a promise, even though it is not yet performed, knowing that
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I can give thanks for everything – whether I want to or not is the issue.
I have to choose.
You can give thanks for everything.
If it were not possible, God wouldn’t have commanded it in His Word.
This is God’s will for you… give thanks in all circumstances.
You can choose to be thankful for work
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sean Harder on Dec 4, 2009
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ALWAYS THANKFUL
"Several churches in North Dakota were being served by a clever old preacher. The people were always amazed, for no matter what the circumstances, the preacher could always find something to give thanks for. As he made his rounds one cold December morning, he was late in getting to
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 18, 2007
“I Give Thee Humble Thanks”
I give Thee humble thanks:
For all the gifts that Thou dost send,
For every kind and loyal friend,
For prompt supply of all my need,
For all that’s good in word or deed,
For gift of health along life’s way.
For strength to work from day to day.
I give Thee humble
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Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 23, 2008
How easy it is to give credit and thanks to everything and everyone but the real source of al our blessings! God deserves our thanks.
For some of us there may be many reasons to be thankful this coming Thursday. Perhaps we may even see it as the best year we have ever had. For others of us, it
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 1, 2014
When I was young I lived about a half hour from Defiance, Ohio. General Anthony Wayne built Fort Defiance in August 1794. He surveyed the land & declared to General Scott, "I defy the English, Indians, & all the devils of hell to take it." I defy anyone and all the devils of hell
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Regarding not the day, let us give God thanks for the gift of His dear Son. ... If it be possible to honor Christ in the giving of gifts, I cannot see how while the gift, giver, and recipient are all in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Lord, were not just thankful for what You give us. We are thankful most of all for the
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