The Word to the World
When I became a member of Brackenhurst Baptist Church, Nita Nagel was ten years older than I am now. And now, as I head toward the finish line of my ministry, Nita has just turned 97. As I visited her yesterday on her birthday, I
Psalm 118 opens and closes with an identical exhortation: “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever” (vv. 1, 29). This dual exhortation to gratitude brackets everything else said in the psalm. It is a psalm in
“We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for
Gratitude. Sadly, it is too often in short supply, even in a church. I want to increase the supply through this article. In a world where self-congratulations is the norm, expressing appreciation for others is increasingly a rarity. In a culture that can quickly criticise