We are all very familiar with the basic components of the story of the First Thanksgiving in New England. The year was 1621. The “Pilgrims” who had come on the Mayflower the previous year, to establish the first permanent English colony in that part of the new world – at Plymouth – had been through…
“Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.” Tomorrow is our country’s national Day of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving became a national holiday in 1863, during the American Civil War, but the roots of this observance go back much further in American history. What is often referred to as the…
Sermon Text- Proverbs 14:34 Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in our country. The Christian church year, in its historic, international form, does not include such a festival, and there are many countries in the world that do not have a thanksgiving observance. But we live in a country that does. And so, as the…