Thanksgiving
Thankfulness: Even When it Hurts
2002 by Sue Lutz
“Is God asking too much when he calls us to be thankful even in the midst of our trials?
Susan Lutz helps us see that being thankful does not mean ignoring painful realities. It means bringing our trials to a God who loves us and sent his Son to be our Savior.”
How Not to Commit Idolatry in Giving Thanks
January 1, 1995 by John Piper, Jonathan Edwards
“Jonathan Edwards has a word for our time that could hardly be more pointed if he were living today. It has to do with the foundation of gratitude.
True gratitude or thankfulness to God for his kindness to us, arises from a foundation laid before, of love to God for what he is in himself; whereas a natural gratitude has no such antecedent foundation. The gracious stirrings of grateful affection to God, for kindness received, always are from a stock of love already in the heart, established in the first place on other grounds, viz. God's own excellency.”
Instilling Gratitude in Your Family
November 20, 2017 by Julie Lowe
“With the approach of Thanksgiving, I am often struck with how people—young and old alike—lack an important attribute: gratitude. I’m not looking for a warm fuzzy thank you for a gift, but a deep rich appreciation for life and what we’ve been given. Why is this? What gets in the way of gratitude?
Here are two thoughts.”
In Every Season Give Thanks
March 20, 2020 Grace Covenant Church Blog
“In Every Season Give Thanks
If you are like me you have been fighting a battle lately. The fight that I am having is to not become absorbed with talk about the Coronavirus. There is seemingly endless information out there with seemingly endless interpretations and opinions. How do I know what is true? How can I know this source or that model is trustworthy? How many confirmed cases today? What is the total worldwide deaths now? How many of those are in Montgomery/Greene county (or plug in your location)? And on…and on…and on. This is not a call to shun all information. Information is helpful at a time like this and simply burying our heads in the sand will not make this pandemic go away. But, what I have noticed in my own heart is that it is leaning toward being absorbed by talk about the Coronavirus. This absorption (at least in me) doesn’t lead to more comfort, but rather more uncertainty.”