This past Sunday was our annual Thanksgiving focused service. While every week should be a week of gratitude and thanksgiving in life and worship for a Christ-follower, it’s good at times to draw our attention back to this important discipline.
So, we gathered as the Body of Christ to give thanks and to be reminded of why this is so important. We took time to allow people to verbally give thanks out load as we are instructed to do in places like Psalm 145:9-12. It was great to hear the different ways and things people are thankful for in relation to God, His presence in our lives, and what He is doing and providing.
The final part of our pre-service segment was a video from Floodgate Productions called “A Thanksgiving Welcome.”
Our worship together began with a Not to Us (Tomlin/Reeves). We had people greet during a instrumental bridge, and then finished the song singing together. Continue Reading…
We continued our November mini-series “Generous Living” this week as we continue to explore issues of stewardship and generosity as we do each November. These can be difficult topics to handle well and hard topics for people to hear in the church. But they are biblical topics that are very important for people who want to live a Christ-honoring life in every way. Perhaps we’ve made them hard issues because we’ve handled them poorly in the past. Our approach isn’t so much to beat the drum to just give more, but to live a life of generosity toward others in our day.
