Tag: Thanksgiving
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An Invitation to Sing
This post is part of the series, Songs of Thanksgiving. Find the whole series here. Thanksgiving—being thankful and grateful for the undeserved blessings God lavishly pours out on us—isn’t merely reflexive and passive. It’s active and expressed in so many different ways. But that isn’t how many people in our world understand thankfulness. We say we’re thankful…
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The Secret to Being Content
What’s your secret? When people are thriving in our world or experiencing great financial success in their self-started business or side hustle selling handmade keychains on Etsy, others tend to want to know how they did it—most often because they want to replicate such financial feats or influence. When people aren’t thriving or experiencing financial…
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Being Thankful Every Day
Episode 4 | with guest Pastor Andy Schroer Thanksgiving Day is a special time to come together with those you love and give thanks for all of your blessings. But what about the other days of the year? In this episode of Faith Footnotes, we’re joined by Pastor Andy Schroer, author of 364 Days of…
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Where Does Thankfulness Start?
“As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. ‘Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth;…
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Thanksgiving for Spiritual Blessings
(Read 1 Corinthians 1:3-9) The greeting (verse 3) is a familiar one. Pastors often use Paul’s words to greet their congregations as they begin their sermons. Like Paul, they desire for their congregations the two blessings that God can give: the grace of God that saves them through Jesus Christ, who redeemed them, and the…
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Give Him Thanks
The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.” The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”…