Stories tagged with: thanksgiving

• FIRST-PERSON: Be thankful together

  by Autumn Wall, posted Monday, November 19, 2018 (3 years ago)

  Be intentional with your Thanksgiving, Autumn Wall writes, by sharing it with others who need to experience God's goodness and hear about Jesus. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Fall, family & friends

  by David Jeremiah, posted Friday, October 19, 2018 (3 years ago)

  Fall is a special time for family and friends, David Jeremiah writes, whether in church, at school or on Thanksgiving day. Read More

• THANKSGIVING: Hurricanes shift holiday preaching

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 22, 2017 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo submitted by Liberty Baptist Church.

  NAPLES, Fla. (BP) -- In hurricane-devastated areas of Texas and Florida, Thanksgiving preaching might have been a unique challenge this year at congregations where homes, businesses and church buildings were lost to severe weather.

  Yet pastors in Texas, where Hurricane Harvey hit in late August, and Florida, where Hurricane Irma hit in September, say their congregations have overflowed with thanks this fall, and Thanksgiving preaching has turned out to be a unique joy. Read More

• THANKSGIVING: Giving thanks 'in' & 'for'

  by Michael Kelley, posted Wednesday, November 22, 2017 (4 years ago)

  Michael Kelley ponders whether there is a difference in giving thanks "in" all circumstances and giving thanks "for" all circumstances. Read More

• THANKSGIVING: Should you 'thank' your way to thankfulness?

  by Michael Kelley, posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016 (5 years ago)

  Michael Kelley ponders whether it is possible to "thank your way into a spirit of gratitude, or is doing so disingenuous and fake?" One key, he notes, is to remember that "true gratitude is rooted not in circumstance but in the character of God." Read More

• The first Thanksgiving: myth and reality

  by Lindsay Blanken & Stephen Douglas Wilson, posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  PIPPA PASSES, Ky. (BP) -- When Americans think about the first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621, they tend to reflect back to images of smiling Pilgrims and Native Americans huddled around a large table filled with copious amounts of food.

  In addition, there is the image of a Pilgrim elder offering an extended season of prayer over the feast. Read More

• At Thanksgiving, immigrants & refugees cherish freedom

  by Joe Westbury, posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Joe Westbury

  ATLANTA (BP) -- Dung Duong remembers the long walk from South Vietnam to Cambodia as he, his father and brother fled life at the hands of the communists who had overrun their nation 15 years earlier.

  The year was 1989 but thoughts of that suffering -- including losing friends who took to the open sea in small boats and were never rescued -- remains with him to this day. Read More

• Thanksgiving sweetened by Baptist children's homes

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  Submitted photo

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- In one Tennessee household, this year's Thanksgiving table will include an unusual centerpiece: the letters Y-E-S made of black pressed wood.

  With a new 10-year-old daughter in their house, Jennifer and Rusty plan to place the letters on their table as a reminder of what God does when believers say "yes" to His will without knowing precisely where He's leading. For them, saying yes led to adopting a child through the Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. Read More

• Platt livestream cites thanksgiving as IMB's aim

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (5 years ago)

  

  IMB screen capture

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Thanksgiving is among the central aims of missions.

  That was International Mission Board President David Platt's assertion in a Nov. 21 Thanksgiving livestream event that included an update on the IMB's financial status and interviews with personnel serving overseas.

  "When we go and proclaim the Gospel and people receive the grace of God ... they will give thanks to God for His grace, and He will receive glory through that," Platt said, basing his comments on 2 Corinthians 4:15, a theme verse for the presentation. Read More

• THANKSGIVING: Not just a holiday or shopping melee

  by John Weaver, posted Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (5 years ago)

  Thanksgiving shouldn't be a once-a-year event for Christians but a "many-times-a-day experience," John Weaver writes. "Jesus rose from the grave, making His abundant and eternal life possible to those who trust in Him." Read More