Be ye thankful (Col. 3:15, KJV).

What more can a preacher say on the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day than that? What application might they offer other than the obvious—be more thankful! How can the Thanksgiving sermon not sound redundant on the one hand nor come off like a reprimand on the other?

Six Years of Searching

For the six years I served as a solo then senior pastor, I found the sermon for the Sunday before Thanksgiving to be the most difficult of all holiday sermons to prepare. The primary ...