November of Thanksgiving 29

I’m thankful for the advent season that we’ve just started. We’re anticipating Christ’s first coming, putting ourselves back, in a way, to the time before the central event in the history of the world, to a time when it was clear that the world desperately needed a saviour, but there was not one….yet.

We can only go back there, of course, in our imaginations, because we live on the bright side of history.  Everything has changed for us because salvation is already here. But it’s good for us to think about the time before—the dark side, if you will—because it makes us more thankful, more glad, more joyous, that  God planned, before creation, for that Light to come, and at the right time, the Light came.

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for work. (Make sure you click through and see the work she’s writing about)
• Becky has a long list of things.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for a finished lesson.
• Lisa is thankful for weakness.
• Persis is thankful for pleasant surprises.
• Victoria is thankful for flowers.
• Joan is thankful for her job.
• Lindsay is thankful for flight benefits. (I get those, too, and they really are something to be thankful for.)
• Staci is thankful she has people to miss.

Update 8:30pm PST:

• Rosemary is thankful that you’ve all been thankful because your posts have been a blessing.
• Kim (Hiraeth) is thankful for Spiritual Blessings in Christ.
• Aadel is thankful “that I worship the “light of revelation” Jesus Christ.”
• Trisha is thankful for the gift of sympathy.
• Dorothy is thankful for the Holy Spirit.
• Sandra is thankful for frost on the gate.
• Amy in Peru is thankful for a hard-working, God-fearing man.
• Elle is thankful for an excellent doctor’s report.
  

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November of Thanksgiving 28

We had yummy baked salmon for supper tonight. I’m a big fish fan and I especially love salmon. I’m very thankful that God made fish for us to catch and eat.

I’m thankful for all the different foods God provides for us, and that we have easy access to such a variety of meat, vegies and fruit. (While I’m thinking of it, I’m thankful that I can buy fresh lemons to go with my salmon.) My fridge is full of tasty things and I thank God, who supplies the food we eat.

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for the privilege of observing the Lord’s Day.
• Becky is thankful for a beautiful Christmas tree and more.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for Handel’s Messiah and safe roads.
• Lisa is thankful that it’s the first Sunday of advent.
• Persis is thankful for a reminder in today’s sermon.
• Rosemary is thankful “that because Jesus came, we can abound in hope in Him!”
• Victoria is thankful “that God has freed my heart(for the most part anyway) from the materialism and consumerism that drives most Americans.”
• Kim (Hiraeth) is thankful for a whole list of things.
• Aadel is thankful for a reminder.
• Trisha is thankful for the gift of meditating on Scripture together as a family.
• Joan is thankful for rest.
• Dorothy is thankful for sunshine and warmth.
• Becky is thankful for her pastor.
• Elle is thankful for her mom and her husbamd’s mom.

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Sunday's Hymn

Who Is He in Yonder Stall?

Who is He in yonder stall
At whose feet the shepherds fall?
Who is He in deep distress,
Fasting in the wilderness?

Refrain

’Tis the Lord! O wondrous story!
’Tis the Lord! the King of glory!
At His feet we humbly fall,
Crown Him! crown Him, Lord of all!

Who is He the people bless
For His words of gentleness?
Who is He to whom they bring
All the sick and sorrowing?

Who is He that stands and weeps
At the grave where Lazarus sleeps?
Who is He the gathering throng
Greet with loud triumphant song?

Lo! at midnight, who is He
Prays in dark Gethsemane?
Who is He on yonder tree
Dies in grief and agony?

Who is He that from the grave
Comes to heal and help and save?
Who is He that from His throne
Rules through all the world alone?

—Ben­ja­min R. Han­by

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: Hallelujah Chorus at threegirldad
• Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus at Rosemary at Home
• Depth of Mercy, Can There Be? at Whatever Things
• The God I Trust Is True and Just at Tried With Fire
• God Be with You Till We Meet Again at Wordwise Hymns
• Lift Up Your Heads, Rejoice at The Happy Wonderer
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel at Field Stone Cottage
• Blest Are the Undefiled in Heart at Hiraeth
• Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates at Conjubilant with Song
• Lord’s Day 48, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Cove Farms
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon: A Warning about Academic Hubris at Pyromaniacs

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.