4. A Proper Thanksgiving
1623
“Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant
harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, squashes and garden
vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the
sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from
the raids of savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease,
has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of
our own conscience; now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye
Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting
house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on
Thursday November ye 29th of the year of our Lord one thousand
six hundred and twenty three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims
landed on ye Plymouth Rock, there to listen to ye preacher and
render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings.”
5. A Proper Thanksgiving
Ephesians 5:20 - Giving thanks always for
all things unto God and the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Thessalonians 5:18 - In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ
Jesus concerning you.
6. A Proper Thanksgiving
Ephesians 5:20 - Giving thanks always
for all things unto God and the Father in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Thessalonians 5:18 - In every thing give
thanks: for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you.
7. A Proper Thanksgiving
Ephesians 5:20 - Giving
thanks
always for all things unto God
and the Father in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ;
1 Thessalonians 5:18 - In
every
thing give thanks: for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
18. A Proper Thanksgiving
EXPRESSED
1. Spend
2. Serve
3. Share
EXPANSIVE
1. Blessings of life
2. Burdens of life
EXPECTED
3. Benefits of life
19. A Proper Thanksgiving
EXPRESSED
1. Spend
2. Serve
3. Share
EXPANSIVE
1. Blessings of life
2. Burdens of life
EXPECTED
1. Growing Christian
3. Benefits of life
20. A Proper Thanksgiving
EXPRESSED
1. Spend
2. Serve
3. Share
EXPANSIVE
1. Blessings of life
2. Burdens of life
3. Benefits of life
EXPECTED
1. Growing Christian
2. Giving Christian
21. A Proper Thanksgiving
EXPRESSED
1. Spend
2. Serve
3. Share
EXPANSIVE
1. Blessings of life
2. Burdens of life
3. Benefits of life
EXPECTED
1. Growing Christian
2. Giving Christian
3. Glowing Christian