Lectionary Sermons of Week 

Thanksgiving Tempers  terror  Phillipians 4   Allred   The very word, "Thanksgiving," conjures up joyful memories from a lifetime of family feasts around the big dining room tables of our past. It is also the one day when all America gives thanks by saying a prayer of thanksgiving and by asking for God's continuing blessings. On ordinary days families might skip the table grace but never on Thanksgiving Day.

Our Future Reality    Allred
 Paul speaks of, "..a new and living way that Christ has opened up for us through the sacred curtain, by means of his death for us." (v.20, NLT). The very first followers of Christ were all Jews and they seem to have expected all other Hebrews to fall in line, accepting Christ as their long anticipated Messiah. Many did as do many still.

On Giving Thanks    Leviticus 7:11-15      Faggart ...  We have come to this place today to say Thank you to Almighty God for the blessings he has bestowed upon us in the year past. As we study the meaning of this day we are going to discover that true thanksgiving always is done with a sacrifice … a sacrifice of appreciation.

This is the Day    Deuteronomy 26:1-11 ,  Matthew 6:25-34   Trotter
Because this is Thanksgiving Sunday, the Sunday before the national holiday, I thought it would be appropriate that we examine that familiar phrase, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it," from the 118th psalm, which we recited this morning.

 In Everything give Thanks   Psalm 100     Standiford ...
Thanksgiving is a sentimental time, full of feelings. I don't know about you, but many of my feelings at this time of year center around food. I don't think you can celebrate Thanksgiving in this country and not have at least some of your focus on food. Because it is a national holiday and it is also a holiday which we celebrate through the church, our concerns for food aren't always just for ourselves, but extend to others as well.