Title: Thanksgiving Thoughts
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Psalms 116: 16-19
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - The Reason of Our Thanksgiving (16)
II - The Results of Our Thanksgiving (17)
III - The Reassurance of Our Thanksgiving (18)
IV - The Realm of Our Thanksgiving (19)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
PRAISE AND GRATITUDE
After one of the terrible battles of the Civil War, a dying Confederate soldier asked to see the chaplain. When the chaplain arrived, he supposed the young man would wish him to ask God for his recovery; but it was very different.
First the soldier asked him to cut off a lock of his hair for is mother, and then he asked him to kneel down and thank God.
"What for?" asked the surprised chaplain.
"For giving me such a mother. Thank God that I am a Christian. And thank God for giving me grace to die with. And thank God for the home He has promised me over there."
And so, the chaplain knelt down by the dying man, and in his prayer he had not a single petition to offer, but only praise and gratitude.
Christian Herald
Glowing Gratitude
There is a story about a missionary surgeon who once stopped to see one of the ladies in a village that he had once operated on. The lady and her husband were dirt poor. Their source of income was reliant upon their livestock.
They had an angora rabbit, two chickens, and that was all that they owned!!!
The woman would often comb the rabbit, take its hair and spin it into yarn which she would sell to make a little money. The chickens provided the eggs they would eat for food.
This woman insisted that the missionary stay for lunch. He accepted the invitation, but informed her he needed to make a few more stops before lunch. He was not gone for more than an hour and a half, while he went to check on another one of his post-operative patients.
When he returned, he arrived to discover a lavish spread for lunch. On the table he saw a rabb ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Psalms 116: 16-19
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - The Reason of Our Thanksgiving (16)
II - The Results of Our Thanksgiving (17)
III - The Reassurance of Our Thanksgiving (18)
IV - The Realm of Our Thanksgiving (19)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
PRAISE AND GRATITUDE
After one of the terrible battles of the Civil War, a dying Confederate soldier asked to see the chaplain. When the chaplain arrived, he supposed the young man would wish him to ask God for his recovery; but it was very different.
First the soldier asked him to cut off a lock of his hair for is mother, and then he asked him to kneel down and thank God.
"What for?" asked the surprised chaplain.
"For giving me such a mother. Thank God that I am a Christian. And thank God for giving me grace to die with. And thank God for the home He has promised me over there."
And so, the chaplain knelt down by the dying man, and in his prayer he had not a single petition to offer, but only praise and gratitude.
Christian Herald
Glowing Gratitude
There is a story about a missionary surgeon who once stopped to see one of the ladies in a village that he had once operated on. The lady and her husband were dirt poor. Their source of income was reliant upon their livestock.
They had an angora rabbit, two chickens, and that was all that they owned!!!
The woman would often comb the rabbit, take its hair and spin it into yarn which she would sell to make a little money. The chickens provided the eggs they would eat for food.
This woman insisted that the missionary stay for lunch. He accepted the invitation, but informed her he needed to make a few more stops before lunch. He was not gone for more than an hour and a half, while he went to check on another one of his post-operative patients.
When he returned, he arrived to discover a lavish spread for lunch. On the table he saw a rabb ...
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