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Thanksgiving 2013

Every Tuesday before Thanksgiving, MVBC has a Thanksgiving Service. The setup is pretty simple. We sing, listen to a brief Thanksgiving devotional, and then, one by one the congregation shares what they are thankful for. This year thanks were given for grace to evangelize in the midst of cancer, strength to get through a difficult season in school, mercy to see where a marriage needed to grow, and many hands willing to work with toddlers every Sunday morning. We were thankful for many things.

But most of all, we are thankful for God. It is God in whom we live, and move, and have our being. It is God who sustains us, pours out his mercy on us, and fills us with his Spirit. We are the people of God because of God's grace.

I had the privilege of starting off the time of thanksgiving with a devotional. You'll find it below. In the midst of turkey and sweet potatoes, green been casserole, and warm bread--I pray you remember not only that God is the giver of all good gifts, but as I said on Tuesday, "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD God Almighty."

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My text for tonight’s Thanksgiving Devotional is Psalm 7:17, “I will give thanks to the LORD the thanks due his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.”

Sermon Study Guides -- 2 Timothy

Here are two sermon study guides from 2 Timothy. Together, they cover 3:10-4:8. At the heart of this long text is 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work." 

What an important verse this is for the believer! We are to be a people of the Book--constantly turning to God's Word for wisdom, strength, and power. Without the Bible we would have nothing to preach, nothing to say, and nowhere to go for the hope we need to survive. If these verses are true, we cannot be too Word-centered.

Download 2Tim3.10-17 MVBC SSG

Download 2Tim4.1-8 MVBC SSG