Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:58)
A Lame-Duck President, Two Pardoned Turkeys, and a Whole Lot More: Animal Rights Activist Reveals Worldview on the Pages of The New York Times
- Let’s End This Turkey Pardoning Nonsense by The New York Times (Peter Singer)
- Let’s End This Turkey Pardoning Nonsense by The New York Times (Peter Singer)
Part II (10:58 - 14:21)
The Flourishing of America and Thanksgiving: Americans Have Unique Ground for Thankfulness
Part III (14:21 - 17:20)
Thanksgiving and the Honor of God: The Inescapably Theological Act of Thanksgiving
Part IV (17:20 - 20:54)
Every Good and Perfect Gift is From Above: The Proper Response to God’s Grace is to Give Thanks
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 27, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | Well, if the American Automobile Association is telling us the truth, about 80 million Americans are in transit right about now. That's 80 million |
| 0:23.9 | Americans headed somewhere to be with family in order to celebrate Thanksgiving together tomorrow. |
| 0:30.6 | And you look at that and you recognize that is a massive movement of humanity. We take this |
| 0:35.4 | kind of thing for granted. But I also want to say it is wonderful to be |
| 0:39.3 | with family. As you think about the Thanksgiving holidays, it's wonderful to be with extended family. |
| 0:44.7 | And so that's actually a statistic I see as good news rather than bad news. At least 80 million |
| 0:50.0 | Americans by this account are going to extraordinary difficulty in order to be with someone they |
| 0:55.0 | love for the Thanksgiving celebration. And that in itself has to be a good thing. But this just |
| 1:01.0 | underlines the fact that Thanksgiving is actually among secular celebrations, and it is these days, |
| 1:07.1 | mostly, for most people, sadly, a rather secular occasion, it does at least represent a |
| 1:13.4 | biblical virtue, which is to say gratitude. And by the way, for Christians, that is not only a |
| 1:20.0 | virtue, it is a command. More on that in just a moment. It is important that we recognize that there is |
| 1:26.3 | something natural in us about Thanksgiving, and there is something natural in us about Thanksgiving, |
| 1:28.3 | and there's something natural in us about gathering together for a feast. |
| 1:32.7 | Just look at the Old Testament. |
| 1:34.0 | Look at how many of the great occasions for Israel were recurring days of feast and festival. |
| 1:39.4 | Because God made us creatures who, after all, need food. |
| 1:42.9 | We need that caloric intake. We need that nutrition. But we also are given the fact that God made us creatures who, after all, need food. We need that caloric intake. We need that nutrition. |
| 1:45.5 | But we also are given the fact that God made us as social creatures and nothing is quite so social as a |
| 1:51.9 | meal. And there's something healthy about that. So the idea that we commemorate important moments of |
| 1:57.6 | our lives and important moral imperatives in our lives. The fact that we |
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