United in Christ

This is the season of Thanksgiving. Not just the day, but the season. As Americans, we rarely see people walking around giving thanks for everything we possess and enjoy in this wonderful land: Freedom of speech, freedom to own land, freedom to drive a car, freedom to have a job and earn money and freedom not to work.

All these freedoms come as a right granted to us by the Constitution of the United States of America .

I challenge anyone who is unhappy with the way we live in America to visit a third world country and experience first-hand poverty, rule by authoritarian leaders, the lack of food to feed one’s family. I could go on and on with the list.

Rather than beat this point to death, let’s talk about what it takes to please God for the many blessings we are granted here in the good ole’ U.S.A.

First

In the Book of Acts, the 10^th chapter, we find a very interesting event in the early Christian church.  A gentile requested Peter, the leader of the first church in Jerusalem, a Jewish church, to come and visit and explain the Gospel to him and his family.  Reading verses 34-43, we hear the words of Peter and the effect of his vision corresponding with the vision of Cornelius.

Ninety-nine years ago this year, a woman heard a sermon on Mother’s Day that gave her an the idea that there should also be a Father’s Day.