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This week we’re talking about gratitude. With the Thanksgiving holiday, we are reminded to reflect on the many reasons we have to be thankful. While it’s important to recognize our blessings, it is also important that we allow this sense of gratitude to impact how we conduct ourselves. So that’s what we’re going to discuss today – how we conduct our lives with gratitude.Continue Reading
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This episode is being released on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving as a holiday is traditionally a time to spend with family and sharing a good food together. However, the basic premise of Thanksgiving is that it calls us to remember the blessings that God has given us and express our gratitude for them. So in our episode today, we’re going to talk about this idea of gratitude and how it is connected with happiness and contentment.Continue Reading
“Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful singing. Know that the Lord Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations” (Psalm 100:1-5).
This psalm begins with a universal call to praise God. It gives us some insight into how we offer praise to Him and describes some of the reasons why He is worthy of such praise.
Let us notice some of the things this psalm tells us about how and why we are to praise the Lord.Continue Reading
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This week’s episode is going to be a little bit different, though still somewhat related to the theme of “current events.” The day this episode is being released is Thanksgiving day here in the United States. Thanksgiving is a reminder to be thankful to God for the blessings that He has abundantly bestowed upon us in this life. No matter who we are, and no matter what time of year it is, we all have reasons to be thankful. Given the holiday, I thought it would be good to take advantage of the fact that thanksgiving is on the forefront of our minds and spend some time talking about the importance of thankfulness.Continue Reading
“This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I have hope in Him’” (Lamentations 3:21-23).
We sometimes hear it said that each day is a gift. This is certainly true, yet we need to know why this is true. It is about more than the simple fact that we are still alive. Each day is a gift because of God and what He provides for us each day.
In the passage above, Jeremiah reflected upon the goodness of God even as he and the nation were going through severe suffering (hence the name of the book Lamentations). There was still evidence of God’s care for them and a reason to have hope if they would focus on Him more than their present troubles.Continue Reading
The question we’ll be considering in this episode is this:
How can we give thanks during a pandemic?
While we should give thanks to God at ALL times, there is a particular emphasis on gratitude during the Thanksgiving season. Therefore, it is good to use it as a reminder of our need to be thankful. However, this has been a difficult year for a lot of people – health concerns, deaths of loved ones, job losses, isolation, strained relationships, and uncertainty about the future. Who knows when things will ever get “back to normal”? It is easy to let ourselves be distracted by these things – yet we can and should continue to give thanks to God. That’s what we’ll talk about in this episode.
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Over the last few weeks, we have considered some reasons why we are to be thankful to God. We are to give thanks for His word because it shows us the way of salvation and what we should do to please Him. We are to show gratitude for the blessings that we receive in this life that have been provided to us by God. We must be thankful for God’s mercy which allows us the opportunity to be forgiven of our sins and have fellowship with Him. We also ought to always be grateful for the hope that we have through Christ that allows us to look forward to an eternal reward in heaven.Continue Reading
Peter issued this challenge to all Christians: “But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence” (1 Peter 3:15). However, many Christians feel unprepared to do this; therefore, many conversations that could potentially lead people to the truth never get started.
This book will help equip all Christians to start engaging in spiritual conversations with those around them by providing simple answers to some basic Bible questions. Being ready to give an answer does not mean having an answer to every possible question at the drop of a hat. Instead, it means being able to give a ready answer to questions that are fundamental to our faith that can open the door to further discussions and studies with those who are interested. By studying the material in this book and becoming familiar with the Scriptures cited in each answer, Christians will be better prepared and have more confidence when they discuss their faith with others.
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