Praising When Platitudes Are Pointless
Donald Cantrell
Daniel 6: 1 - 23
This is a ''Thanksgiving'' sermon that will challenge us to question if we are merely ''fair weathered believers that can only be thankful if everything is going our way. Can you praise God and be thankful in the face of tragedy, jeopardy, and even disaster, Daniel could!!!''
I - Daniel's Plentiful Affluence (1 - 3)
II - Daniel's Persistent Attackers (4 - 9)
III - Daniel's Phenomenal Actions (10)
IV - Daniel's Personal Affliction (11 - 13)
V - Daniel's Painful Allegiance (14 - 17)
VI - Daniel's Powerful Associate (18 - 23)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Can we praise when God doesn't seem to be so good?''
Happy Blamegiving Day!
Nearly eighty years ago, a Republican President, Herbert Hoover, had his hands full with a horrible economy and a rather unique Thanksgiving dilemma. In August of 1931, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., sent Hoover an open letter asking him to forgo his annual religious Thanksgiving proclamation.
The letter informed him that the group was prepared to hold a counter-celebration, in protest, which was to be called ''Blamegiving Day''-for the purpose of ''blaming the deity for widespread and undeserved misery.'' The New Yorker writer and humorist Robert Benchley took note of the letter and wrote a Comment in this magazine about Hoover's predicament:
This puts President Hoover in a rather tough spot. There are probably quite a fair-sized number of citizens who would attend a Blamegiving service this year and a great many more who would tune in on their radios. But such a service, held under atheist auspices, could not very well attack a deity who is, under the Association's very house rules, nonexistent.
In the absence of a responsible deity, the next in line for the blame would be the Administration, and so the whole affair would automatically turn into ...
Donald Cantrell
Daniel 6: 1 - 23
This is a ''Thanksgiving'' sermon that will challenge us to question if we are merely ''fair weathered believers that can only be thankful if everything is going our way. Can you praise God and be thankful in the face of tragedy, jeopardy, and even disaster, Daniel could!!!''
I - Daniel's Plentiful Affluence (1 - 3)
II - Daniel's Persistent Attackers (4 - 9)
III - Daniel's Phenomenal Actions (10)
IV - Daniel's Personal Affliction (11 - 13)
V - Daniel's Painful Allegiance (14 - 17)
VI - Daniel's Powerful Associate (18 - 23)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Can we praise when God doesn't seem to be so good?''
Happy Blamegiving Day!
Nearly eighty years ago, a Republican President, Herbert Hoover, had his hands full with a horrible economy and a rather unique Thanksgiving dilemma. In August of 1931, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc., sent Hoover an open letter asking him to forgo his annual religious Thanksgiving proclamation.
The letter informed him that the group was prepared to hold a counter-celebration, in protest, which was to be called ''Blamegiving Day''-for the purpose of ''blaming the deity for widespread and undeserved misery.'' The New Yorker writer and humorist Robert Benchley took note of the letter and wrote a Comment in this magazine about Hoover's predicament:
This puts President Hoover in a rather tough spot. There are probably quite a fair-sized number of citizens who would attend a Blamegiving service this year and a great many more who would tune in on their radios. But such a service, held under atheist auspices, could not very well attack a deity who is, under the Association's very house rules, nonexistent.
In the absence of a responsible deity, the next in line for the blame would be the Administration, and so the whole affair would automatically turn into ...
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