Title: The Foe of Forgetting
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Deuteronomy 8:11-17
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - Our Encouragement
II - Our Enticement
III - Our Entrapment
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
There are certain things in our lives that the sooner we forget them the better off our lives will be, but other things, we dare not forget them. I don't know about you, but there have been times in my life that I have stood on both sides of that fence. Somethings I learned to forget and I am a much better person in leaving those things in the past, but on the other hand...
Several years ago, I was sitting at home one afternoon when I received a text from my daughter. It was on a Thursday and the text read, "We will be meeting at Elpublito for mom's birthday dinner." I immediately broke out into a cold sweat, seeing it was 4:45 in the afternoon and we were meeting within the next 45 minutes, and I had no time to go anywhere.
Birthdays are a big deal with our family and my wife's birthday is literally two months after my birthday. I had never forgotten her birthday, nor had I ever forgotten our anniversary, but this day was different. My daughter had reminded me like three times, remember we will be having a party for "mom." Well, mom and birthday, seemingly failed to register, as I totally forgot.
Forgetting was not the issue, we all forget, but owning that forgetfulness, well that is entirely a different matter. I just hate admitting my lapses of ignorance and on this occasion, I knew that I had messed up, so I was just going to blew it off, act like it was no big deal, boy how wrong I was in that assessment.
Upon our arrival at the Mexican Restaurant and after we all ate, I nonchalantly told my wife, "I forgot, I just plain forgot" and if I had ended it there, the hole would not have been that deep, but no, I had to say "You will just have to get over it" there, I said it and then I had to own it. ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Deuteronomy 8:11-17
Thanksgiving Sermon
I - Our Encouragement
II - Our Enticement
III - Our Entrapment
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
There are certain things in our lives that the sooner we forget them the better off our lives will be, but other things, we dare not forget them. I don't know about you, but there have been times in my life that I have stood on both sides of that fence. Somethings I learned to forget and I am a much better person in leaving those things in the past, but on the other hand...
Several years ago, I was sitting at home one afternoon when I received a text from my daughter. It was on a Thursday and the text read, "We will be meeting at Elpublito for mom's birthday dinner." I immediately broke out into a cold sweat, seeing it was 4:45 in the afternoon and we were meeting within the next 45 minutes, and I had no time to go anywhere.
Birthdays are a big deal with our family and my wife's birthday is literally two months after my birthday. I had never forgotten her birthday, nor had I ever forgotten our anniversary, but this day was different. My daughter had reminded me like three times, remember we will be having a party for "mom." Well, mom and birthday, seemingly failed to register, as I totally forgot.
Forgetting was not the issue, we all forget, but owning that forgetfulness, well that is entirely a different matter. I just hate admitting my lapses of ignorance and on this occasion, I knew that I had messed up, so I was just going to blew it off, act like it was no big deal, boy how wrong I was in that assessment.
Upon our arrival at the Mexican Restaurant and after we all ate, I nonchalantly told my wife, "I forgot, I just plain forgot" and if I had ended it there, the hole would not have been that deep, but no, I had to say "You will just have to get over it" there, I said it and then I had to own it. ...
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