November 18, 2018
Stetson Memorial UMC
Thanksgiving Service
Colossians 3:16-18
NIV Bible
Psalm 118:1, 19-29
NIV Bible
1 Thessalonians
5:18 NIV
“Now Thank We All Our God”
A prayer of illumination so that God will
speak through me or in-spite of me…
Read
the Psalm:
What
are you thankful for? This is a question that we usually ask this time of year
as we celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. So…what are you thankful for? (Give people a chance to answer) It’s seems
as if the business world…the secular world…kind of just jumps right over this
holiday and right into the next one… Well the next one is the one that they
make most of their money…Christmas. I don’t know about you but bugs me that
they jump right into Christmas even before Halloween…I think they should be
celebrating Thanksgiving because they should give thanks for our giving…
So, here we are standing on the door step of new
season of remembering when love came down for all of humanity. We are also
getting ready to celebrate thanksgiving with our friends and family. We really
do have a lot to be thankful for. As I read the Psalm this morning so many
images came to mind. Images of God opening the gate for us through which we can
enter in…that gate being our Risen Lord Jesus Christ…for He is the gate of the
Lord through which all must enter in to be saved. The image of Jesus in the
manger as God answered our plea for salvation…the very person that was rejected
has become the way to freedom. The image of God shining His light on humanity
as we comfort in song because of what He has done…He is our God whom I shall praise and exalt on High. There are many
images in this scripture and I invite you to read these words and contemplate
the season that we will be entering soon…the season of Advent.
SO
how do we live a life of thankfulness? How do we take that “thanksgiving” and
turn it into a daily “matter of the heart”? Colossians 3:16-17 states…
“Let the message of
Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with
all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing
to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in
word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God the Father through him.”
By
living our lives loving and helping one another, our hearts will be over joyed…singing
a song of thanks to God. We live like this by doing everything as for doing it
for Jesus who will come in and give us a heart transplant…changing from a stony,
selfish one to one that is flesh and full of love. That is how our lives turn from
a dirge to one full of the joy of the Lord…spilling over with thanksgiving…
Be thankful in all
circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians
5:18 NIV)
We
have so much to be thankful for. We can be thankful to God for all that He has
done…is doing…and will do in the future in our lives. We can be thankful to the
saints that have gone before us who have showed us the way to live. We can be
thankful of their gift of faith that they shared in a world full of chaos and
hopelessness. And we can show our thankfulness by taking their example in life
and live it out in our own.
We
have a lot to be thankful for. What are
you thankful for? Let us put God at the head of our “Thanks Giving” table
as we give thanks for His goodness and mercy found in and through our Risen
Lord, the Savoir of the world, Jesus Christ. We truly have much to be thankful
for.
Give
thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever…
Amen
November 18,
2018
Now Thank We
All Our God
November 18, 2018
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Thanksgiving Service
Psalm 16 (NIV)
Colossians 3:16-18 (NIV)
Psalm 118:1, 19-20 (NIV)
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
and sermon: “Now Thank We All Our God”
video
text
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
8AM Live
meditation
blog
“God’s
Whisper” blog
Children’s Message
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten,
ME
November
18, 2018
&
edited November 30, 2017
our cups overflow – 2 – v3
edited November 24, 2017
we offer thanksgiving – v3
edited November 24, 2017
like a treasure trove – v2
edited November 24, 2017
For so many saints – v2
edited November 24, 2017
our cups overflow – 2 – v2
adding 3rd stanza
November 24, 2017
our cups overflow - 2
edited
November 23, 2017
we thank You
Lord – 2 - v2
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
November 23,
2017
for so many
saints
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
edited
November 23, 2017
on this day of
Thanksgiving – v2
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
November 23,
2017
on this day of
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
November 23,
2017
we thank you
Lord - 2
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
November 23,
2017
like a
treasure trove
Thanksgiving
Day 2017
edited
November 22, 2017
her angels,
her saints – v2
November 22,
2017
Thankful - 2
Thanksgiving
worship service
Aroostook
Cluster of the United Methodist Church
sermon
“Thankful”
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
meditation blog
“God’s
Whisper” blog
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Northern Maine
District
service held
at Grant Memorial United Methodist Church
Presque Isle,
ME
November 19,
2017
&
edited/new
name November 20, 2017
changing the
world - 2
November 20,
2017
not changing
the world
edited
November 19, 2017
we walk His
path – v2
November 19,
2017
her angels,
her saints
November 19,
2017
we walk his
path
November 19,
2017
remembering so
many names
November 19,
2017
coming home to
this place
edited
November 19, 2017
fed from the
well of God’s hands – v2
November 19,
2017
fed from the
well of God’s hands
November 19,
2017
“Thanks-Giving”
cover of bulletin
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Psalm 34:1-10
Matthew 6:1-4
and
sermon / testimony, “Who Has Nourished You….”
by Sally Drew
Children’s
Message
by Sally Drew
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
November 19,
2017
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