“Gratitude Grows as Salutary Habit”
“For many Americans, Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. Gathering at the table with family and friends in memory-filled tradition. Plenty of soul-satisfying food. And, the special feeling that comes from sharing gratitude. ‘Thanksgiving has always been a favorite: It’s a time for gratitude and a holiday we haven’t messed up!’ says Susan Kirby, a […]
Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19
Easter 3A
[…] came back from death (and in Jesus’ case, he did come back never to die again). Or we can put these words on our own lips as thanksgiving for the resurrection. If so, then the paradox of Psalm 116 fits well: we both believe we have been delivered from final death and we also […]
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
Easter 1B
[…] easily to focus on a single verse rather than a psalm-wide theme. On top of that, it’s not easy to know whether this is a song of thanksgiving of an Israelite king celebrating a victory, Israel celebrating God’s deliverance from Egyptian slavery, post-exile Jews celebrating their return from exile or something else. Yet with […]
Psalm 100
Proper 6A
[…] praise the Lord.” In those early days, I was helped in my prayer life by that now hackneyed acronym, ACTS. Comprehensive prayer should consist of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. That helped me because most of my prayers immediately and persistently focused on supplications, petitions for me and mine. On a good day, I […]
Psalm 84:1-7
Proper 25C
Gratitude (Christian life); Thanksgiving (Spiritual Practices); Thanksgiving (Special Days); Lectionary (Preaching and Worship Practice); Sermon (Preaching and Worship Practice)
Psalm 30
Proper 5C
[…] is a perfect post-Easter Psalm. Its purpose is to keep the memory of our deliverance from death alive by voicing the deliverance again and adding our profound thanksgiving for it. It is, as one scholar put it, a prayer that is wholly praise, but the praise comes out of answered prayer. From beginning to […]
Colossians 1:1-14
Proper 10C
[…] text. He’s only ever heard of them from his colleague Epraphas who planted their church. Yet what Paul has heard about the Colossian Christians fills him with thanksgiving that he pours out in his prayers to God. So is there any reason for him to keep writing to the Colossians? Those who proclaim Colossians […]
Philippians 1:3-11
Advent 2C
[…] my reading of Philippians 1 is right, Advent can also be a time of celebration, of downright jubilation. That is the mood here in our reading. There’s thanksgiving and joy, love and peace. It makes me think of Thanksgiving Day with a table sagging under the fruits of the harvest, or the annual Christmas […]
1 Timothy 2:1-7
Proper 20C
[…] number of God’s children by beginning this Sunday’s Epistolary Lesson with verses 1-2’s “I urge , then, first of all, that petitions , prayers , intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people – for kings and all those in authority .” Prompted by the Spirit, preachers might choose to incorporate into a message […]
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