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November 7, 2012 — Craig T. Owens

Thanksgiving Day is fast approaching, and families are already making their travel plans, and meal plans, and football-watching plans, and Black Friday shopping plans. Whew! That’s a lot to pack into one weekend! 

So what if we don’t try to pack it into just one weekend?

What if we made sure that Thanksgiving was not just a day, but every day was a day of giving thanks?

What if giving thanks was more than just Thanksgiving?

That’s what we’ll be exploring and learning about from God’s Word over the next two Sundays. I hope you will be able to join me for this eye-opening, heart-challenging two-part series called givingthanksgiving.

And if you can’t join us in person, I challenge you to take some time to answer the question for yourself: What if giving thanks was more than just Thanksgiving? If this were true, how much sweeter your life would be!

If you missed either of the messages in this series, check them out here:

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Are You Content?

November 7, 2012 — Craig T. Owens

The dictionary defines contentment as—

Satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.

Does that describe you? Sadly, it’s describing fewer and fewer of us today. But saddest of all: Very few Christians describe themselves as being content!

The Bible says, “But godliness with contentment is great gain. … If we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.” (1 Timothy 6:6, 8)

Godliness + Contentment = Great Gain

Both godliness and contentment are choices we must make.

I choose to be godly, and I choose to be content.

The default—the natural course for us—is selfishness. The pull toward my gain and my pleasure is strong. So I must exert great energy to pursue godliness; I must make the conscious decision to be content.

Give us this day our daily bread should be the prayer request in the morning (Matthew 6:11).

Thank You, God, for providing food and clothing for today should be the prayer of thanks in the evening.

Today if you have more than food and clothing, how much more blessed you are!

Choose godliness. Choose contentment. And watch and see how God provides great gain for you!

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