The Ultimate Expression of Thankfulness Paul wrote to the Church at Rome, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” (Rom. 12:1, NIV) As we come to the end of the Thanksgiving season, and our series on thankfulness, we to the apex of thankfulness: a life lived for God. That is what Paul says after detailing an extensive list of the wickedness

Have you ever thought about what your thankfulness, or lack thereof, communicates? In other words, what is the message we present when we are thankful or when we are not? People give messages all the time. We give the message of what teams we pull for when we wear their apparel. We give messages when we place bumper stickers on our vehicles. We give messages just by the way we walk. Likewise, we communicate a message when we express thankfulness. We have already discussed the

Paul wrote to his young protégé, Timothy, “Train yourself to be godly” (1 Tim. 4:7, NIV). We have discussed several examples of this training in previous posts. Today, we are picking our gloves and dusting the equipment off in order to resume our training. As an athlete, we work hard to grow in our likeness to Christ. One of the ways in which we can train ourselves for godliness is to serve. Donald Whitney writes this about serving, “The ministry of serving may be as public a

Thanksgiving is inching near. The reunion of families, joyful celebrations of God’s goodness, and the stories of those who have passed will fill the tables. Others may be alone, drinking the holiday away or simply going through another day. While we celebrate or observe Thanksgiving differently, we should all cultivate thankful hearts. In our last post, we briefly discussed cultivating thankful hearts. In this post we are going to discuss the Reasons for thankfulness. Why sho