SERMONS ON GRATITUDE

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The Attitude of Gratitude

by James Merritt

Rudyard Kipling was a great British poet whose writings have blessed many of us, including a generation gone by. Rudyard Kipling was a very famous writer even before he died, and made a great deal of money at his trade. A newspaper reporter came up to him once and said, ''Mr. Kipling, I just read that somebody calculated that the money you make from your writings amounts to over $100 a word.'' Mr. Kipling raised his eyebrows and said, ''Really, I certainly wasn't aware of that.'' The reporter cynically reached into his pocket and pulled out a $100 bill and gave it to Kipling and said, ''Here's a $100 bill Mr. Kipling. Now you give me one...

The Anatomy of Gratitude

by Dave Gustavsen

With all that's going on, how do you get your heart ready for Thanksgiving? Because I think, despite all the craziness in our world, all of us want to come to the Thanksgiving table with a sense of joy, and a sense of gratitude. Right? I mean, this day happens once a year; and I don't want to miss it. So I want to take a few minutes and talk about gratitude: where does it come from? What does it look like? And how can we truly experience it this week? So I'm going to be reading from Luke chapter 7, verses 36 to 50. Here's what it says: 36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went...

The Anatomy of Gratitude

by Dave Gustavsen

Love That Springs From Gratitude

by Bob Wickizer

Wednesday night we kicked off our adult Christian formation series with a lively discussion on angels. When the topic of guardian angel arose, someone asked why we appear to have a guardian angel at some times in our lives while at other times, they seem to be absent. I responded by asking what made them think that because a situation did not turn out the way they wanted that God was not looking out for them. The obvious times in our lives are the easy ones: the car accident we barely missed; the rapid recovery from an accident; the child who makes it through a challenging situation and so on. These are the easy times...

Gratitude (5 of 5)

by M. Kenneth Lyon

Today we close our series on Living from the Inside Out. We've been talking for several weeks about outward behaviors and how we can reform, but unless we are transformed outward behaviors will revert to old patterns. Today in this final chapter we deal with inside out gratitude. Why did I choose this to be our last installment? It's simply because of this. The final act of God's graciousness is to make us gracious. It is to transform and shape our character so that we become more and more Christ-like in our attitude and in our hearts. To grow our hearts larger and more tender that we may not only be filled with gratitude but in turn our lives...

Sanctified Gratitude (4 of 5)

by Steve Jones

INTRODUCTION: You know that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in October 1621 by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the new world. The feast lasted three days and was attended by 90 native Americans and 53 pilgrims. Thanksgiving in America has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789. The celebration was intermittent until one president made it a federal holiday with the following proclamation: ''The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come...

Gaining Christ's Gratitude

by Jeff Strite

One soldier stationed on an island of the Philippines during WW II told this story: "Although the region was secure, sometimes the enemy tried to infiltrate our food storage area. One such adversary, dressed in GI clothing, once worked himself into the noontime chow line. Our camp cook spotted him, reached under the serving table for his pistol and yelled for the MPs who were patrolling the area. After it was all over, we asked the cook how he knew the man was an enemy soldier. "I figured it wasn't one of you guys, he said, "'cause he was coming back for seconds." APPLY: That enemy soldier stood out because he was a thankful person...

An Attitude of Gratitude

by Mark Baker

God is so good; He loves to bestow His gifts upon His children. The Bible tells us that all good gifts come from God. If it's good, then it's from God. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. I know at times in my own life I've gotten complacent. This is easy to do in today's hectic lifestyle, yet in a sense it's a type of laziness. Complacency can come when you start to take things for granted. I have recently been reminded that I have so much to be grateful for, I can not afford this attitude, and none who are in the body...

Tears of Gratitude (6 of 6)

by Daniel Rodgers

This will be the last in our six-part series on "Tears for Every Occasion." We have talked about tears of joy, tears of regret, tears of repentance, tears of grief, and we have talked about tears of pain. Tonight? Tears of gratitude. ILLUS: My brother and his wife were up for a visit this week. As he and I were talking, we were reminiscing the years of our past-before and after our salvation. We were just thanking God for His great work of grace in or lives. I said to him, "As you sit reading your Bible sometimes, or maybe as you are preparing a Sunday school lesson, and you come across a special passage, doesn't it just overwhelm you that...

A Miracle of Gratitude (7 of 16)

by Richard Bradley

One Sunday morning a pastor was preaching on today's text. Over and over he kept repeating Jesus' question: ''Where are the nine?'' ''Where are the nine?'' ''Where are the nine?'' This went on for some time and finally a man stood up and said, ''I don't know where the nine are but they're probably where I'd be if I had good sense!'' This might not be a bad question. This question is a simple one. Where is the gratitude for all the Lord has done for us? It's not so much what we say that demonstrates our gratitude to God as much as what we do. Talking is easy. Doing can be hard. But, it's mostly what we do that God takes notice of...

The Nitty Gritty of Gratitude

by Bob Ingle

Let's open our bibles together to Colossians 3. The Puritan Bible commentator Matthew Henry was robbed while walking down the street. The thieves took everything of value. Later that night, Henry made the following entry in his diary: ''Let me be thankful: First, because I was not robbed before. Second, because although they took my wallet, they did not take my life. Third, because although they took my all, it was not much. Fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.'' Even in the midst of a horrifying experience, he exuded thankfulness. Alton McEachern said: ''May God who has given us so much give...

To Fourth Church With Gratitude (10 of 29)

by Keith Krell

Have you ever wished that Jesus would write a letter to our church? What do you think He would say? What aspects of His character would He emphasize? In what ways would Jesus commend us? Would He commend us, or would there be a deafening silence? Would we escape without any correction? Or, more likely, would Jesus take us to task for areas that we can grow in? How would He challenge us and call us to respond? For the past two months we've been reading and studying seven letters dictated by Jesus Christ to the apostle John and then sent to the angels of seven small churches in western Turkey in...

Gratitude Toward God (5 of 6)

by Stephen Whitney

Gratitude is an attitude of thankfulness toward the person who blessed us by doing us a favor or something we could not do. We should be grateful to God for all of his blessings to us. We can never thank him enough for all he has done for us. Psalm 103:1-4 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases . . . who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy. In 2007 Rarthna Reth, a refugee from Cambodia20 years earlier, returned to West Linn (Oregon) Lutheran Church, whose members provided...

Praying With Praise and Gratitude (5 of 6)

by Jim Perdue

I have felt for a long time that one of the particular temptations of the maturing Christian is the danger of getting accustomed to his blessings. Like the world traveler who has been everywhere and seen everything, the maturing Christian is in danger of taking his blessings for granted and getting so accustomed to them that they fail to excite him as they once did. Emerson said that if the stars came out only once a year, everybody would stay up all night to behold them. We have seen the stars so often that we don't bother to look at them anymore. We have grown accustomed to our blessings. The Israelites in the wilderness...

Gratitude (3 of 5)

by Jason Dees

9 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Let’s Pray. You know food has an interesting place in scripture. It’s kind of one of the major themes of the whole Bible if you think about it the first thing that God says to man in Genesis 1 and 2, Genesis 1 a more general story of creation, Genesis 2 a more particular account of the creation of man and woman, the first words that God said to the man...

Forever Thankful

by Jerry Vines

Since the first Thanksgiving Day was observed by the Pilgrims in 1621, and President Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday in 1863, Thanksgiving Day has been a vital part of our national life. I've always wondered why the Atheists don't object to Thanksgiving Day, because it is the day when we call attention to our gratitude and thanksgiving to God. I guess of all of the times an Atheist must feel very uncomfortable are those occasions when he feels thankful and he doesn't have anybody to express his gratitude to. But on this day of Thanksgiving we gather together as a nation. We gather in our families and we offer our gratitude...

Coming to Church With a Thankful Heart (1 of 3)

by Ken Trivette

For the next few weeks I want us to think about being thankful. Shakespeare said, ''O Lord! That lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.'' If there is anything a Christian ought to be, it is thankful. Vincent De Paul was right when he said, ''We should spend as much time in thanking God for His benefits as we do in asking them.'' 2. The Bible has much to say about being thankful. In 1 Chronicles 16 we have what is called the ''Song of Thanksgiving.'' Verse 34 says, ''O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever.'' The place that thanksgiving should have in our life is beautifully...

Learning to Be Thankful

by Rex Yancey

We are quickly approaching Thanksgiving Day once again in this country. In 1863 President Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving as a national holiday. The purpose of this day was for us to gather in our homes and churches and corporately give thanks to God. The first Thanksgiving feast was celebrated in 1621, when the Pilgrims, after a very difficult winter gathered together and offered thanks to God. I have often wondered why the atheists and secularists have not protested Thanksgiving. They have objected to about everything else we Christians have. I think the most difficult moment they have is when they feel grateful for....

A Reason to Be Thankful

by William Wyne

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and...

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