Category: Thanksgiving

  • In, Not For

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    Travis Lurten
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    Topic: Thanksgiving Series  —   Key Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 There’s a single preposition that gets dropped constantly in how this verse is quoted around Thanksgiving, and I think the dropped word changes the meaning almost entirely. “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” — 1…

  • The One Who Turned Back

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    Topic: Thanksgiving Series  —   Key Scripture: Luke 17:11-19 There’s a detail in Luke 17 that I think gets lost in the familiar shorthand of “The Ten Lepers,” because the number itself is the point, and we tend to skip past it. Jesus heals ten men with leprosy in a single moment — all of them…