Thoughts from Pastor Tim - November 25

Dear Church Family – 

We’re really looking forward to Thursday and a significant day of Thanksgiving.

Our Emmaus Thanksgiving service is always a special and heart-felt time as we share our offerings of Thanksgiving with our church family, and as we welcome international students from around the world. 

What has God given you this past year that you could thank Him for at Thursday’s service?

            Perhaps how God has provided for you

            Or protected you

Maybe share something God taught you this year

Or something special God did for you

Maybe you have an answer to prayer, or a special blessing to tell us all about

or perhaps a sobering, deep work God has done in your life.

You might want to share a verse of Scripture that has been meaningful to you this year,

Or a thought, or a reading

Maybe you’d like to sing a song, or request a song for us all to sing

All are welcome and encouraged to participate.  We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate Thanksgiving together because of who Jesus is and what He has done. 

Last Sunday, I shared a paragraph from Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth, a prolific and well-respected writer who said, “Gratitude is a choice. If we fail to choose it, by default we choose ingratitude. And once allowed into the heart, ingratitude does not come by itself but with a lot of other seedy companions that only succeed in stealing joy.”

Thanksgiving yanks out the bad tooth of negativity, covetousness, bitterness, resentment. 

"Praise be to you, O Lord,

God of our father Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power

and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,

for everything in heaven and earth is yours.

Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom;

you are exalted as head over all.

Wealth and honor come from you;

you are the ruler of all things.

In your hands are strength and power

to exalt and give strength to all.

Now, our God, we give you thanks,

and praise your glorious name.  (1 Chronicles 29:10-13)

With thanks and joy – Pastor Tim