This time of year is a time of family. Many families get together for many different reasons, but one is so that all can catch up with other members of the family. Sometimes families swap out with this day and with Christmas meeting with one side or the other. It is still a good time to get together and renew the love that we have for one another. It also is a time to be thankful for our heritage. Our heritage is those family members who have gone before us who have made us into...Continue reading
Category: Thankfulness
Good
In the beginning God created all things and it is said by God that it was good. God created the light and it was good (Genesis 1:4). On the third day God divided the waters and the land so that land appeared and again He said it was good (Genesis 1:10). Also on the third day God created the grass, herbs, and the trees, and God saw that this was good (Genesis 1:12). On the third day there were two things that happened and it was all good according to God’s standards. On the fourth...
How Do We Express Our Thanksgiving to God?
There are several ways in which we can express our thanksgiving to God. One is by sacrifice. “I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord” (Psalm 116:117). Leviticus 22:29 states, “And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it at your own will.” Milligan states in the Scheme of Redemption about the Thank offering these words: “The victim offered might be either a male or a female of the heard or of the flocks. With the animal was also brought...
Thanksgiving
This time of year is a time of family. Many families get together for many different reasons, but one is so that all can catch up with other members of the family. Some times families swap out with this day and with Christmas meeting with one side or the other. It is still a good time to get together and renew the love that we have for one another. It also is a time to be thankful for our heritage. Our heritage is those family members who have gone before us who have made us...Continue reading
Thank You
This Thursday is the time we have set aside to honor our men and women who have served in the armed services. The Bible teaches that we are to honor some. Read what inspired men wrote: “Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour” ( Romans 13:7). “Honour all men, Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king” (1 Peter 2:17). The first Gentile Christian was a military man. “There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a...