Thanksgiving

I’m preparing to give the annual thanksgiving sermon this Sunday. This year the text is from Psalm 30, a text picked after reading some profound thoughts from a fellow blogger, Jeff McCrory http://www.jeffmccrory.typepad.com/. What I appreciated was his demonstration that thankfulness is more than an “attitude of gratitude”. Stemming from the word “thanks” found in Psalm 30, he wrote that thanks should be something we do “with our hands.” “Literally when the psalmist says “I thank” we ought to think “I present something with my hands”.

How do you see thanks? Is it an attitude of gratitude, or something more as is taught in Psalm 30?

In another post, Tod Bolinger http://bolsinger.blogs.com/ writes “Do you Trust Me?” He's in the midst of a series on the Sermon on the Mount. His statements on November 17 and his opening illustration are a great reminder of our need to "let go" and trust the Lord. I especially liked the quote he had from Dallas Willard,

“Believers are those who act as if the gospel is true.”