Happy Thanksgiving!

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

1 Chronicles 16:34

• Thanksgiving 2021 -- “Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2021 occurs on Thursday, November 25.”
• Pilgrim-Wampanoag Treaty Established, March 29, 1621 -- “These Independents believed God should only be worshipped according to the commands of the Bible, a belief held by other Separatists and Presbyterians, a doctrine known as “the regulative principle of worship”. The congregation left England for the Netherlands, where such dissenters found a warm welcome. In 1620 a portion of Pastor John Robinson’s congregation pioneered another move, this time to the New World.”

We thank thee, heavenly Father, 

For every earthly good;

For life and health and clothing,

And for our daily food.

O give us hearts to thank thee,

For every blessing sent;

And whatsoe’er thou sendest,

Make us therewith content.

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

1 Timothy 6:8

No. 189, p.183 in The Children’s Hymnal with Tunes (John Ireland Tucker, editor. New York, NY: F. J. Huntington & Co., 1877)

Here is a standing reason for thanksgiving. Although we may not always be healthy, nor always prosperous, yet God is always good, and, therefore, there is always a sufficient argument for giving thanks unto Jehovah. That he is a good God essentially, that he cannot be otherwise than good, should be a fountain out of which the richest praises should perpetually flow.

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The constant tenor and spirit of our lives should be adoring gratitude, love, reverence, and thanksgiving to the Most High.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18