Happy Thanksgiving! I’m so grateful for you and what you mean to me. Your friendship and our time together is treasured far more than you know. I look forward to the man you are becoming and what our Father is doing in you. Thank you for being you!!
We are so grateful for the wisdom you have given through the Rooted series. We began attending Kearney e-free when the Rooted series began and have followed along with the workbook. Your encouragement to practice the seven rhythms in our lives is not only inspiring but engaging. I do not want to bash our recent church attendance at another location, but we are full of thanks for your intensity to be decisive with growth and maturity. Like you stated in your sermon, I look forward to intensifying our ‘holy moments’ with our Almighty God who loves us far more than we can imagine. The Rooted series has been a great reminder of the basics to what we are all about as Christ followers.
Hebrews 6:1 - Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, Eugene Peterson’s take is sobering- “So come on, let’s leave the preschool fingerpainting exercises on Christ and get on with the grand work of art. Grow up in Christ. The basic foundational truths are in place: turning your back on “salvation by self-help” and turning in trust toward God; baptismal instructions; laying on of hands; resurrection of the dead; eternal judgment. God helping us, we’ll stay true to all that. But there’s so much more. Let’s get on with it!”
Hebrews 6:1-3 (MSG)
Discipling others is becoming a passion, and and I want to be better skilled by investing in the lives of young men. Thank you for being a model of Hebrews 10:24-25 by spurring us on toward love and good deeds.
- Gratitude is crucial because it provides the moral foundation of a stable culture. America’s first settlers knew God and gave thanks to him. A little more than 200 years after the first Thanksgiving, our forefathers etched “To God be the glory” on the top of the Washington Monument. But over the years, Americans have become proud and oblivious to God’s providence. It seems that now our “thinking has become futile, and our foolish hearts darkened”.
The hope for America’s future does not lie in the 2024 election. Our only hope lies in a spirit of genuine repentance and thanksgiving. The Lord still “inhabits the praise of His people.” God would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah for ten righteous people. I believe the reason God’s wrath may be restrained at this point is due to a remnant of righteous people who continue to cry out to Him for mercy and thank Him for His grace. Let us all try to make our Thanksgiving Day prayers this Thursday more than a superficial, “God is great, God is good. Let us thank Him for our food.” Take a few moments to lead your family in pouring out your heart to God in genuine repentance and a heartfelt prayer for our nation that we may once again become “One nation, under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”For that, we would be most grateful.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! - Bob Russell - “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” — A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”
- “To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.” — John Bytheway
- “I’m just thankful for the people that never left me and equally thankful for those who did.” ― Nitya Prakash
- “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” ― John F. Kennedy
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
- “We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.” — Charles Spurgeon
- “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings”
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