C. Matthew McMahon
Christian Preacher
There are two holidays I enjoy more than most that have a spiritual connotation to them: the national day of Thanksgiving, and New Years.
Thanksgiving gives me the added remindeder that I ought to be thankful for God's providence, not just "certain things I like" in His providence "discarding other things I don't like." Instead, as Paul exhorts - "give thanks in everything." (1 Thess. 5:18) This is a universal Christian command that subverts the ingratitude that rebellion against God may take in the form of the disgruntled Christian unhappy with God's providences.
The following sermon was on "giving thanks" and then ends with a different sort of application that demonstrates three thanksgiving proclamations from 1621, 1789, and 1863. Three areas of history that had great affliction in differing circumstacnes, but there was still a sense of giving thanks to God, the Source of all blessing and providence.
Its a rather simple sermon, but should cause us to consider and think about giving thanks in everything as God's will for us in Christ Jesus.
November 20, 2005 Giving Thanks in Everything, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon
Thanksgiving gives me the added remindeder that I ought to be thankful for God's providence, not just "certain things I like" in His providence "discarding other things I don't like." Instead, as Paul exhorts - "give thanks in everything." (1 Thess. 5:18) This is a universal Christian command that subverts the ingratitude that rebellion against God may take in the form of the disgruntled Christian unhappy with God's providences.
The following sermon was on "giving thanks" and then ends with a different sort of application that demonstrates three thanksgiving proclamations from 1621, 1789, and 1863. Three areas of history that had great affliction in differing circumstacnes, but there was still a sense of giving thanks to God, the Source of all blessing and providence.
Its a rather simple sermon, but should cause us to consider and think about giving thanks in everything as God's will for us in Christ Jesus.
November 20, 2005 Giving Thanks in Everything, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon