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Monday, November 23, 2009

It is Good to Give Thanks...

It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High - Psalm 92:1.

Thanksgiving Day is just a couple days away. A simple search on any Bible software or a glance in a Bible concordance for the word 'thanks' instantly reveals how many passages deal with giving thanks. And yet we live in a culture of ungrateful people. Even amid the recession, our country is still blessed beyond what we ever deserved. But the woe-is-me crybaby mentality abounds. The giving of thanks is a tough thing for us poor Americans. Complaining is the path of least resistance - and so that is the path we often take. It is quite revealing about ourselves. This year at Thanksgiving, I want to get over my sin of ingratitude and begin to be conscious about being thankful. It is, after all, God's will for our lives... "in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" - 1 Thessalonians 5:18.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Mark

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1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.