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![]() Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalm 100:4 (NIV)
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Whether you're carving turkey, baking pumpkin pie, taking in football games, or relaxing with friends and loved ones, let us join you in giving thanks to the One who's blessed us!
To help you celebrate, we're offering special Thanksgiving articles to inspire and enrich your traditions on this special day. Don't miss our featured article, "Thanksgiving at Fair Acres," and then be sure to visit our Thanksgiving channel. To keep you up to date, we've also included new articles from ChristianityToday.com.
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We hope you enjoy your time of rest and remembrance of all that we have to be grateful for, and the God to whom we owe our thanks. We hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving at Fair Acres
A meal with my mother and other nursing-home residents opened a small crack in their stony detachment, and gave a brief glimpse of the kingdom of heaven.
by Virginia Stem Owens
When I was a teenager, my church youth group made an annual Christmas pilgrimage to what people then called the "old folks' home." We took small wrapped gifts, perhaps a comb and bottle of after-shave for men, handkerchiefs, and hand cream for women. Our youth leader did all the cheery talking. We only had to sing and grin. The more virtuous or socially skilled among us might shake a few claw-like hands or pat several bony shoulders. The rest of us just sang carols, crowding around the bedside of strangers while exchanging sidelong glances to let one another know we understood this wasn't real, that we had no personal connection to all this creepy weirdness. As soon as we could, we escaped into the cold night air outside, our pent breath exploding in blasts of laughter.
I was not one of the better people. I dreaded these nursing-home excursions, and not merely because of the sensory and metaphysical assaults aging flesh inflicts on the young. Even at 15, I knew that we were putting on an act, performing—in all the variations of that word's meaning—our Christian duty.
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CHRISTIAN HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Eat, Drink, and Relax
Think the Pilgrims would frown on today's football-tossing, turkey-gobbling
Thanksgiving festivities? Maybe not.
by Elesha Coffman
CHRISTIANITY TODAY
The Long View: The Enemy Within
This Thanksgiving, let us remember our perverseness.
by Mark Galli
CHRISTIAN HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
Thanksgiving in the Midst of Fear
Seriously ill in the days of the Black Plague, poet John Donne still
celebrated God's goodness.
by Philip Yancey
LEADERSHIP
Turkey & Terrorism
Amid all the anxious and alarming voices, the 'still, small voice' quietly
assured me that God remains in control.
by Paul Robbins
LEADERSHIP BOOKS
Thankful in a Thankless World
by Terry Muck
LEADERSHIP
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