November of Thanksgiving

For the 5th year in a row, I’m declaring November to be the month of thanksgiving at Rebecca Writes!

Every one of us has an abundance of good gifts from God, so I’m inviting you to join with me in giving thanks to him for his many blessings.

Each day during the month, I’ll post something for which I’m thankful. You can participate in any of these ways:

• Mention something you’re thankful for in the comments here. I’ll include your comment in one of my thanksgiving posts.
• Email me to tell me what you’re thankful for and I’ll include it in a post.
• Post your thankful thought(s) on your own blog, send me the link(s), and I’ll link to your post(s). If you plan to post something daily during the month, let me know that, too. That way you won’t need to send me your daily links.

Lisa of Lisa Notes participated in thanking God during the whole month of November last year and writes that it blessed her, “both in reading what others wrote, and in making me think daily of things that I am thankful for.” She’s exactly right! It is a blessing to read all the posts of thanksgiving every day. Why don’t you join us?

And would you consider mentioning the November of Thanksgiving celebration on your own blog and inviting your readers to take part, too?

Round the Sphere Again: Apologetics

More on Presuppositionalism
Despite what you may have heard, there is a place for evidence in presuppositional apologetics. However

[W]e must never think of evidence as something that establishes Christianity or “proves God” or Scripture, etc., but something that simply affirms (or perhaps, re-affirms) Christianity and other truths. Evidence points to facts already in place, like a man pointing to a tower on a hill. Evidence and historical apologetics doesn’t provide the hill upon which the tower can stand. Again, evidence affirms, not establishes.

Read more from Jamin Hubner at RealApologetics Blog.

Explaining the Differences
with an illustration that helps “distinguish between the various traditions with regard to divine sovereignty, free-will, and salvation.” (Parchment and Pen)

Briefly Summarizing
Christian epistemology. (RealApologetic Blog)

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for hot running water, central heating, and my automatic washer and dryer. While I’m thinking about it, I’m thankful for my electric stove and fridge, too. I have so much more than my grandmother did, things that I mostly take for granted, seldom stopping to consider that they are good gifts from God.  So today I’m thanking my heavenly Father for all these conveniences that make life easier for me.

I’m thankful for my kids. Sometimes they make things easier for me, and sometimes not. But they are always good gifts and I am thankful for them.

I’ve had a morning that’s been interrupted over and over again, and I’ve crossed off next to nothing from the list of things I’d hoped to do today. I’m thankful that God is in control of my interrupted days, too.

I’m thankful for the blessings of everyday life. I am thankful for the earthly life I’ve been given and also for the promise of eternal life.

On Thursdays throughout this year, I plan to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving along with Kim at the Upward Call and others. Why don’t you participate by posting your thanksgiving each week, too? It’ll be an encouragement to you and to others, I promise.