How to experience Thanksgiving in three tenses: “It’s one thing to be grateful. It’s another to give thanks”
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 28 November 2024
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Summary
Billy Graham noted: “According to today’s standards, the Pilgrims had almost nothing, but they possessed a profound and heartfelt gratitude to God for his love and mercy.” Today we continue our look at the meaning of thanksgiving in a redeemed life with Christ, focusing on what Jesus has done for us in the past, in the present, and in the future. Tim Keller was right: “Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, November the 28th, 2024. Good day and happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Dennis and Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | If you're like most Americans, your Thanksgiving meal today will include oven-roasted turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin or pecan pie. |
| 0:29.8 | In previous generations, however, your table would have been laden with deviled turkey, oysters, boiled chestnuts, sweet potato balls, green bean |
| 0:40.0 | pudding, vinegar pie, and cranberry wine. While I'm partial to oysters, I'll otherwise |
| 0:45.9 | take our menu over theirs. At the same time, I'm not sure all progress is worthy of the name. |
| 0:52.6 | Dining rooms are disappearing in large part due to the |
| 0:56.0 | pandemic when such areas became classrooms, offices, and gyms. Since I'm terrible at balancing a plate |
| 1:02.5 | on my knees, I'm glad our dining room table is still available today. More than half of those |
| 1:07.8 | surveyed said they plan to eat at a restaurant for their main holiday meal. |
| 1:12.4 | 82% of those choosing to dine out do so to reduce the stress of preparing the meal. |
| 1:18.4 | Since Janet does the cooking at our house, for culinary reasons and to protect the lives of our guests, |
| 1:24.0 | I can't speak to the latter fact, but I'm glad our family will have time together |
| 1:28.7 | and distracted by a crowded restaurant. More than a third of Americans will watch football today. |
| 1:34.3 | While this sports spectating tradition dates back to 1876, the game is more popular around the |
| 1:40.5 | world than ever. I'm a lifelong football fan, but I'm glad Janet will make us pause |
| 1:46.0 | the game for the family meal, especially if the Dallas Cowboys are losing. Here's another way I hope |
| 1:51.5 | we'll go back to the past. While Thanksgiving these days is all about food, football, and frenzied |
| 1:57.4 | shopping, it's antecedents were anything but. Billy Graham writes, |
| 2:02.2 | The Pilgrim fathers who landed at Plymouth to settle in what became the United States of America |
| 2:07.1 | can teach us an important lesson about giving thanks. During the first long winter, seven times |
| 2:13.3 | as many graves were made for the dead as homes were made for the living. Seed, imported from England, |
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