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Since our extended family is spread all over the country it will just be the three of us for Thanksgiving dinner today. This Saturday my brother Pat and his family will be joining us for a meal, driving down from the Lehigh Valley about 100 miles northeast of us.
For newer readers both sets of our parents have gone on to be with the Lord. Brooksyne has two brothers, Jody and Jerry, in Oklahoma and a sister Elaine in Texas and in addition to my brother Pat, I have a brother, Mike, in California and a sister, Genelle, in North Carolina.
"Blessed Assurance" Video We heard this version on the radio the other day and really liked it.
"Now Thank We All Our God" Audio hymnstory prepared and read by Brooksyne with an instrumental background.
"Thanksgiving Medley" Video
"Thankful For The
Thorns" - A family reading and exercise that is a
wonderful way to give a thoughtful focus around your Thankgiving Table (webpage) Most
every year our Thanksgiving celebration is first and foremost the
turkey and trimmings. Lots of food with little meaningful
conversation. Why not add some stimulating discussion about the ways
God has worked in your life over the past year! Some of
you are not in charge and are only visitors at your Thanksgiving
gathering, but if it is possible share together
around
the table the theme of "Thankful for the Thorns" or the questionnaire
we've provided in the link below. Perhaps you could just use
it as a
discussion guide to provide stimulus for other's reflections.
"Hymns
of Hope" Brooksyne
has compiled eleven hymns that deal with
the
recurring theme of loss and ongoing trial and titled it "Hymns of Hope"
based on Romans 12:12, "Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer." Amber
Martin plays the hymns on the keyboard and Lauren Gingrich accompanies
her on six of the hymns with the viola. Tracks 12-22 play each hymn
softly in the background while Brooksyne shares a personal devotional
thought, the biographical setting of the hymn text, and an intercessory
prayer. We recorded this in the very modest and limited computerized
recording studio of Daily Encouragement so that we could make this
ministry project available to all who are in need of such encouragement
without huge overhead expense. Thus we realize the audio
quality is not what most are accustomed to. You can go to this
site
to listen to the songs. You can download one song at a time if you find
this to be of special blessing or know someone whose spirit
might be lifted by listening to these meditative hymns.
A Thankgiving prayer - (written by Joe Sherer, pastor of the Mount Joy Mennonite Church, and shared as the benediction at our community Thanksgiving Eve service last year.) Webpage For those who enjoy written prayers this would be a beautiful prayer to read together at the Thanksgiving table.
A Thanksgiving Scripture reading - A selection of Old and New Testament readings dealing with thankfulness appropriate for church, family and personal readings. (pdf) (Suitable for printing out and copying.)
A Thanksgiving family exercise - We have used this questionnaire as a stimulus for discussion among family members in the past. We encourage you to share results around the table at Thanksgiving before or after the meal. (pdf)
A Day of Rest in Plimouth Colony - This is a summary of a chapter in the lives of the pilgrims that Brooksyne uses to teach about their Sunday worship. (pdf)
"ThanksLiving" Bob Southard shares a weekly online sermon. Here's a pdf version of his thanksgiving sermon.
Resources used in Brooksyne's research on the Pilgrims:
Saints & Strangers By Vision Video
Three Young Pilgrims By Cheryl Harness / Simon & Schuster
Thursday, November
27, 2008
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"A Thanksgiving Prayer"
Today we want to share a prayer we earnestly pray for our family, friends and readers.
It is from Colossians 1:3-14 with slight adaptation.
It is from Colossians 1:3-14 with slight adaptation.
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We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the Word of Truth, the gospel that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. You learned it from faithful followers of Jesus Christ. For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Amen. |
Since our extended family is spread all over the country it will just be the three of us for Thanksgiving dinner today. This Saturday my brother Pat and his family will be joining us for a meal, driving down from the Lehigh Valley about 100 miles northeast of us.
For newer readers both sets of our parents have gone on to be with the Lord. Brooksyne has two brothers, Jody and Jerry, in Oklahoma and a sister Elaine in Texas and in addition to my brother Pat, I have a brother, Mike, in California and a sister, Genelle, in North Carolina.
Today's
suggested Music
and Supplemental Resources
and Supplemental Resources
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on the link to open and play)
"Blessed Assurance" Video We heard this version on the radio the other day and really liked it.
"Now Thank We All Our God" Audio hymnstory prepared and read by Brooksyne with an instrumental background.
"Thanksgiving Medley" Video
Special Thanksgiving Resources
We want to offer these ideas to families and church leaders
to enrich the spiritual impact of the Thanksgiving holiday.
(We'll be posting these resources all week.)
We want to offer these ideas to families and church leaders
to enrich the spiritual impact of the Thanksgiving holiday.
(We'll be posting these resources all week.)
"Thankful For The
Thorns" - A family reading and exercise that is a
wonderful way to give a thoughtful focus around your Thankgiving Table (webpage) Most
every year our Thanksgiving celebration is first and foremost the
turkey and trimmings. Lots of food with little meaningful
conversation. Why not add some stimulating discussion about the ways
God has worked in your life over the past year! Some of
you are not in charge and are only visitors at your Thanksgiving
gathering, but if it is possible share together
around
the table the theme of "Thankful for the Thorns" or the questionnaire
we've provided in the link below. Perhaps you could just use
it as a
discussion guide to provide stimulus for other's reflections."Hymns
of Hope" Brooksyne
has compiled eleven hymns that deal with
the
recurring theme of loss and ongoing trial and titled it "Hymns of Hope"
based on Romans 12:12, "Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer." Amber
Martin plays the hymns on the keyboard and Lauren Gingrich accompanies
her on six of the hymns with the viola. Tracks 12-22 play each hymn
softly in the background while Brooksyne shares a personal devotional
thought, the biographical setting of the hymn text, and an intercessory
prayer. We recorded this in the very modest and limited computerized
recording studio of Daily Encouragement so that we could make this
ministry project available to all who are in need of such encouragement
without huge overhead expense. Thus we realize the audio
quality is not what most are accustomed to. You can go to this
site
to listen to the songs. You can download one song at a time if you find
this to be of special blessing or know someone whose spirit
might be lifted by listening to these meditative hymns.A Thankgiving prayer - (written by Joe Sherer, pastor of the Mount Joy Mennonite Church, and shared as the benediction at our community Thanksgiving Eve service last year.) Webpage For those who enjoy written prayers this would be a beautiful prayer to read together at the Thanksgiving table.
A Thanksgiving Scripture reading - A selection of Old and New Testament readings dealing with thankfulness appropriate for church, family and personal readings. (pdf) (Suitable for printing out and copying.)
A Thanksgiving family exercise - We have used this questionnaire as a stimulus for discussion among family members in the past. We encourage you to share results around the table at Thanksgiving before or after the meal. (pdf)
A Day of Rest in Plimouth Colony - This is a summary of a chapter in the lives of the pilgrims that Brooksyne uses to teach about their Sunday worship. (pdf)
"ThanksLiving" Bob Southard shares a weekly online sermon. Here's a pdf version of his thanksgiving sermon.
Resources used in Brooksyne's research on the Pilgrims:
Saints & Strangers By Vision Video
Three Young Pilgrims By Cheryl Harness / Simon & Schuster
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