Sermons on Thanksgiving Holiday:

Gratitude

Contributed by Roy Fowler on Nov 22, 2020

We should and need to show gratitude to God for all things

As families around the country prepare to gather with family, eat turkey and perhaps partake in some Black Friday shopping, they might be surprised to learn how much we don’t know about the origins of the Thanksgiving today. Back in 1621 it was called a fall harvest and lasted 3 ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 14:21-22, Job 1:21

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Empty Chair

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Nov 23, 2020

Every thanksgiving there is an tradition of leaving an empty chair for an unexpected guessed. Jesus expects us to do that to the hungry, thirsty, to the prisoned one. We are to help the least, lonely, lost, leper, and the other.

Matthew 25:31-46 The Empty Chair " -- for the least, the lost, the lonely, the leper, the "other"? 1. This week we will celebrate Thanksgiving • Thanksgiving is the day we set aside nationally to remind us to say "thanks" for the bounties God has heaped upon our ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46

Denomination: Methodist

Give Thanks

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Nov 24, 2020

No matter the circumstances, we are to give thanks.

Give Thanks November 22, 2020 Morning Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: No matter the circumstances, we are to give thanks. Focus Passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Supplemental Passage: A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. Serve ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Denomination: Baptist

Serve One Another Series

Contributed by Dr. Dave Hartson on Nov 27, 2020

I am going to share with you some life changing truths about serving one another.

Introduction This past Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving Day. And I am going to use that day to illustrate how families have their own set of rules and guidelines that govern how they function. In some families, the parents fix the Thanksgiving meal for the children before they fix their own. In ...read more

Scripture: Romans 12:3-11

Denomination: Baptist

The Key To Intimacy With God

Contributed by Stephen E. Trail on Sep 12, 2021

How do we stay close to God? How do we develop a more intimate relationship with Him?

The Key to Intimacy with God 1 Thessalonians 5:14-17 Introduction: The importance of this letter and its companion from Paul cannot be over overstated. We do not know for certain that the Apostle was ever able to visit them personally. He intended for it to be read by the churches and ...read more

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-22

Denomination: Baptist

A Thankful Perspective Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

What distinguishes the Christians thankfulness from the natural thankfulness of all people? The distinction consists basically in the fact that the Christian has someone to thank.

G. K. Chesterton has written a delightful account of a students encounter with his professor at Oxford. The professor, or tutor as they called them, was a bright young man, but he was a follower of the pessimistic views of Schopenhauer. He was disgusted with the weary worthless lives around him, ...read more

A Grateful Heart Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

Charles E. Jefferson said, "If Christians would praise God more the world would doubt Him less." Let us admit it that we seldom make it known how grateful we are to be Christians by our praise of God and thanksgiving before the world.

Thanksgiving is unconditional for the believer. We are not to be thankful only because of blessings, but even in spite of burdens, for life at its worst does not change the most precious truth for which we are to be thankful, and that is salvation through Jesus. There have been Christian people ...read more

Scripture: Luke 17:11-19

A Thankful Spirit Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

A thankful spirit encourages others to see the positive in their own lives, and so being thankful is a ministry in a world where the bad news is thrown at us so often we tend to forget the good news. We need people with a thankful spirit to remind us that light is as real as the dark

The more I study the history of man and the sea, the more grateful I become that I am a landlubber. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost in ship wrecks in my lifetime. But some sailors have much to be thankful for in spite of ship wrecks. John O'Brian, for example, was off the coast of ...read more

Scripture: Acts 27:27-37

Thank God For Rights Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

Jesus paid the ultimate price for the ultimate right, which was the right to become a child of God. As Christians we have a right to confess our sins, be forgiven, and become children of God. As Americans we have a right to share this good news with anyone.

On Sept. 17, 1787 the leaders of our nation signed a document, which is to our freedom as Americans what the New Testament is to our freedom in Christ. They signed the Constitution Of The United States, and that is now the longest lasting Constitution every drawn up by leaders of a major nation. ...read more

Scripture: Acts 22:22-29

Thank God Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

People can even take a miracle for granted, and not be thankful. Not being thankful is one of mankind's greatest sins. It shows that man is blind to the grace of God. To go through life and never say thank you to God is to live the ultimate in the cursed life.

Ed Spencer was a hero of one of the worst shipwrecks ever on Lake Michigan. He was studying for the ministry at the Methodist Seminary in Evanston, Ill. On the night of Sept. 8, 1860 he was awakened by the shouts of other students in the dormitory. A shipwreck had taken place not far away. And ...read more

Scripture: Romans 1:18-21

Thank God He Let Me Play Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

That is the number one basis for Thanksgiving. It is just the fact that God has let you play the game. All of us are only here today because God has let us play the game of life.

William F. Kirk was a columnist who loved baseball, and just before his death he wrote this poem couched in baseball terms to express his thanks for life. "The doctor knows what his trained eyes see, And he says it is the last of the 9th for me; One more swing while the clouds loom dark, And ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 45:1-11

Thank God For A Happy Ending Series

Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 10, 2021

A little boy was petting his beagle dog and his mother said, "That dog looks so sad." He responded, "Yeah, it has a very sad face," but pointing to the wagging tail he added, "But look it has a happy ending." That is the message of the Word of God about history,

A woman went into a meat market and ordered two pounds of hamburger. The clerk yelled back to the butcher, "Two pounds of enthusiasm!" "Why do you call it enthusiasm," she asked? "Because he puts everything he's got into it." This is certainly a description ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 45:1-15

Psalm 103 - A Psalm Of Personal, Passion, Perpetual Praise! Series

Contributed by Thomas Fortini on Mar 23, 2021

We spend most of our time in prayer asking for things, that are many times related to this lifetime, but we should spend more time in prayer praising and thanking God for what he has already given us eternally in Christ!…

I once heard a humorous little story, that is based on the imagery that is captured in Revelation 5:8, that will serve well as an introduction to today’s message… Revelation 5:8b the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 103:1-22

"finding God In The Ordinary"

Contributed by Ken Sauer on Nov 18, 2021

A sermon for Thanksgiving.

“Finding God in the Ordinary” Matthew 6:24-34 Once upon a time, there was a far- away land that was ruled by a vicious king. His iron fist reached into every corner of his subjects’ lives. Every corner, except one. Try as he might, he couldn’t destroy their belief in God. In his ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34

Denomination: United Methodist

Can I Tell You Why I Am Thankful?

Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Nov 19, 2021

An elderly couple was sad because they hardly ever saw their children.

A couple of days before Thanksgiving the husband called his son in New York and said to him, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; 45 years of misery is enough. We’re sick of each other, and so you call your sister in Chicago and tell ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 1:1-8

Denomination: Baptist