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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Access More. |
0:04.0 | During today's conversation on back porch theology, |
0:11.5 | Ali and I are diving into one of my favorite passages |
0:14.4 | about Thanksgiving found in the Synoptic Gospels, that's Matthew Mark and Luke. |
0:19.1 | One of our theological heroes, the late great Dr. Tim Keller, said this about Thanksgiving. He said it's |
0:26.4 | one thing to be grateful, it's another to give thanks. Gratitude is what you feel. |
0:32.4 | Thanksgiving is what you feel. |
0:33.0 | Thanksgiving is what you do. |
0:35.0 | In other words, Thanksgiving is not simply the warm fuzzy feeling that bubbles up in Americans |
0:40.4 | when we gather around a table laden with turkey sweet potato |
0:43.2 | casserole and cornbread stuffing in late November. Mind you there is |
0:46.7 | something truly glorious about a heap of hot mashed sweet potatoes topped |
0:50.6 | with brown sugar and melted marshmallows. |
0:53.2 | However, for Christ's followers the world over, |
0:56.6 | Thanksgiving is less about inhaling carbs |
1:00.2 | and getting sleepy after all that trip to fan and it is more, much more about developing the joyful discipline of celebrating the |
1:08.0 | beneficence and compassion of our Creator, Redeemer. Deliberate, actionable gratitude, it's a double blessing too. |
1:18.0 | Because it's not just fruit of the Spirit, it's fuel from the Holy Spirit, because the praxis and posture of |
1:26.9 | giving things supernaturally propels us into deeper intimacy with God. |
1:32.2 | Today's conversation has the potential to into deeper intimacy with God. |
1:32.8 | Today's conversation has the potential |
1:34.8 | to transform our emotional trajectory, y'all. |
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