Give
Thank
s!
Faith Community
November 18, 2012
Thanksgiving
Surfaces
best when
we feel
Submerged
"In my distress I called to the
LORD…from the depths of the grave I
called for help..”
Whale Shark
Isla Mujeres, Mexico
Encounter with a Whale Shark
Nov 2011
Thanksgiving
Surfaces
best when
we feel
Submerged
"In my distress I called to the
LORD…from the depths of the grave I
called for help..”
“Joy is always a function of
gratitude — and gratitude is
always a function of
perspective.”
Ann Voskamp
Psalmist 31:22-24
In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from
your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for
mercy when I called to you for help.
Love the LORD, all his saints! The
LORD preserves the faithful, but the
proud he pays back in full. Be strong
and take heart, all you who hope in the
LORD.
Thanksgiving
Surfaces
best when
we see God
at work
around Us
“You hurled me into the deep, into the
3 John 1:2-4
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good
health and that all may go well with you,
even as your soul is getting along well. It
gave me great joy to have some brothers
come and tell about your faithfulness to the
truth and how you continue to walk in the
truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that
my children are walking in the truth.
Deuteronomy 29:18-19
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan
or tribe among you today whose heart turns
away from the LORD our God to go and
worship the gods of those nations; make
sure there is no root among you that
produces such bitter poison. When such a
person hears the words of this oath, he
invokes a blessing on himself and therefore
thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist
in going my own way." This will bring
disaster on the watered land as well as the
dry.
Thanksgiving
Surfaces
best when
we serve
God and
offer his gift
Chuck Swindoll
Love that reaches up is
adoration. Love that reaches
out is compassion. But love
that stoops is grace.
Ephesians 1:7-9
“In him (Jesus) we have redemption
through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, in accordance with the riches of
God’s Grace that he lavished on us
with all wisdom and understanding.
And he made known to us the mystery
of his will according to his good
pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith--and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by
works, so that no one can boast.
For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.
Psalm 100 (The Message)
On your feet now — applaud God! Bring a gift of
laughter, sing yourselves into his presence.
Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made
us; we didn’t make him. We’re His people, His
well-tended sheep.
Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make
yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him.
Worship him.
For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in
love, loyal always and ever.
Have a
Great
Thanks
giving!