A Practical Theology of Thanksgiving Primarily from the Psalms

Sermon Notes:

MAIN IDEA: This morning’s sermon will ask and answer seven questions about thanksgiving so that you might have a healthy theology of thanksgiving for the holiday season and for every season.

  1. What is thanksgiving?

  2. Who should give thanks? (Ps 9:1; 75:1; 79:13; 100; 138:4; 140:13; 145:10; Rom 1:18–21)

  3. Whom should we give thanks to? (Ps 9:1; 30:4; 57:9; 75:1; 136:1–3, 26; Rom 1)

  4. How should we give thanks? (Ps 9:1; 28:7; 30:4; 57:9; 86:12; 109:30; 111:1; 138:1–2; Col 2:6–7)

  5. When should we give thanks? (Ps 30:12; 44:8; 52:9; 142:7; 1 Thess 5:18; Col 3:15–16)

  6. Where should we give thanks? (Ps 35:18; 95:2; 100:4; 108:3; 1 Thess 5:18)

  7. Why should we give thanks? (Ps 7:17; 50; 69:29–ff; 92:1; 105:1; 106:1, 47; 107:1-ff; 118:1, 21, 28–29; 136:1–3, 26; 147:7)

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