Proud people don't say thanks.

That was the title of Pastor John's Thanksgiving sermon way back in 1983, yes, 30 years ago.

And with Pastor John on the final leg of his trip through the Middle East, today on the

Aspastor John podcast, we're doing something totally different.

We're digging back into the sermon archive to resurface a clip from that sermon in 1983.

This sermon is based on Romans chapter 1 verses 16 to 23, and it's a passage worth reflecting

on annually when Thanksgiving comes around.

Here's a brief clip of what Pastor John had to say in that message 30 years ago.

So for those who love the truth, creation becomes a dazzling lesson book in theology.

It teaches the open mind that there is a deity, an infinitely marvelous being, who made

the world and everything in it.

It teaches that this being has stupendous power and that the power is eternal.

The world in its molecular and visual and galactic order and structure bears witness

to an architect.

If that architect made everything that is, then he himself was not made, but must have

been always and is eternal and eternally powerful, infinitely marvelous maker of all things

is evident in the lesson book of creation.

And that's not all you can learn from the lesson book of creation.

If in fact there is an all powerful, infinitely marvelous maker of all things, then I know

something very personal.

He made me and everything I have, I have from his hand as a free gift.

I am made, creature, utterly dependent and everything that I enjoy is a gift from the

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