Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Divine Service sermon

November 26, 2009

Text: St. Luke 17:11-19 When St. Paul describes why God is full of wrath toward mankind, he gives this reason: “Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him” (Rom. 1.21). The failure of mankind to give thanks to the Creator is no mere breach of etiquette, no [...]

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Thanksgiving Matins sermon

November 26, 2009

God made man from the earth. Our very first father, Adam, was made from the clay, but he came alive when God breathed into Adam the breath of life. And not only was Adam made from the earth, he depended on the earth for his life. The food that he had to eat came from [...]

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Take this hymn and shove it!

November 18, 2008

I have no patience for hymns that have nothing Christian about them. Take this stinker from LSB (#789) by Albert F. Bayly: Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer For all things living, Created good: Harvest of sown fields, Fruits of the orchard, Hay from the mown fields, Blossom and wood. . Bless, Lord, the labor [...]

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Thanksgiving, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience

November 22, 2007

The Elders at Immanuel were very kind to give me the evening off from preaching tonight, and we were blessed to have Rev. Andrew Smith in the pulpit. In his sermon he referenced the 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln and how he called not just for the giving of thanks but for a day [...]

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