Title: Giving Thanks When Life Is Hard
Author: Scott Maze
Text: Lamentations 3:19-25
If you have a Bible would you find the book of Lamentations with me - Lamentations 3 or page 818 in your pew Bibles?
I just love Thanksgiving and I love it even more with each year I age. But not everyone has an equally good time on this holiday.
The day before Thanksgiving an elderly man in Phoenix called his son in New York and said to him, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing. 45 years of misery is enough. We are sick of each other. So call your sister in Chicago and tell her." As soon as he hung up the phone from his dad, the son called his sister. She exploded on the phone when she called her father only moments later, "Like heck, they are getting divorced," she shouted! "I'll take care of this when I see you later tonight. You are not getting a divorce. Don't do a single thing until we get there, do you hear me?" The father hung up the phone turned to his wife and said, "Okay, honey, the kids are coming for Thanksgiving and they are paying for their flights!" I hope you don't have to threaten your family to gather them together for Thanksgiving this year.
As you are turning to the book of Lamentations, the book consists of 5 poems. Now if you're a guy's guy, then you probably are not big in poetry. Reading and writing poetry ranks somewhere between attending Taylor Swift concerts and hanging out at the mall all day. Despite our lack of love of poetry, there is something good here.
For 25 centuries, this book has given voice to the pain God's people have experienced in times of great suffering.
I want to talk to you about "Giving Thanks When Life Is Hard."
Today's Scripture
"Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord nev ...
Author: Scott Maze
Text: Lamentations 3:19-25
If you have a Bible would you find the book of Lamentations with me - Lamentations 3 or page 818 in your pew Bibles?
I just love Thanksgiving and I love it even more with each year I age. But not everyone has an equally good time on this holiday.
The day before Thanksgiving an elderly man in Phoenix called his son in New York and said to him, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing. 45 years of misery is enough. We are sick of each other. So call your sister in Chicago and tell her." As soon as he hung up the phone from his dad, the son called his sister. She exploded on the phone when she called her father only moments later, "Like heck, they are getting divorced," she shouted! "I'll take care of this when I see you later tonight. You are not getting a divorce. Don't do a single thing until we get there, do you hear me?" The father hung up the phone turned to his wife and said, "Okay, honey, the kids are coming for Thanksgiving and they are paying for their flights!" I hope you don't have to threaten your family to gather them together for Thanksgiving this year.
As you are turning to the book of Lamentations, the book consists of 5 poems. Now if you're a guy's guy, then you probably are not big in poetry. Reading and writing poetry ranks somewhere between attending Taylor Swift concerts and hanging out at the mall all day. Despite our lack of love of poetry, there is something good here.
For 25 centuries, this book has given voice to the pain God's people have experienced in times of great suffering.
I want to talk to you about "Giving Thanks When Life Is Hard."
Today's Scripture
"Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord nev ...
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