Thankfulness is so easy when things are going well. It’s much harder to foster in the low places of life. Difficult relationships, low-income seasons, and various other trials often make gratitude difficult.

“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” – A.W. Tozer

....There is another way to engage with the world. It comes when we focus on two central tenets of the Christian faith: God’s sovereignty and the locus of our hope.

...What stands out to me in Solomon’s words is that God is handing out good gifts, and these gifts are the basic, even mundane, things of life: food and drink and fulfilling work.

...Of all people, only those who are in Christ have this grounding assurance: anything we go through happens for us, not to us. Surely this is something for which we can give thanks, in spite of grief or pain.

Everyone struggles to maintain a disposition of gratitude for any length of time. We know what it’s like to feel like we want just one more thing in our lives. The Israelites exemplified this attitude of discontentment.

In the past few weeks, we have witnessed a dizzying array of signs pointing to the nearness of the Tribulation and, thus, to the Rapture...The world lies breathtakingly close to the start of catastrophic...

Do we consistently acknowledge God to be the greatest source of our joy? Are we filled with discontentment over what we don’t have, rather than gratitude over what we do have?

...Does a season of thanksgiving feel out of place in your local church? If it does, and you’d like to change that, here are a few suggestions for fostering a grateful church all year round.

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. The prototype of Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims who celebrated their first harvest in the New World in 1621 with the Native-Americans.

The Bible tells us there must be a seven-year period when God again turns His attention to the Jewish people and Jerusalem. The length of this still future time comes the prophet Daniel who specified...

...Over the last five years, I’ve slowly rebuilt a love for the holidays. As I reflect on what I’ve learned, here are five things I’d encourage you to consider as you look ahead to your own gauntlet of holidays.

Should we still look to the land that once comprised the borders of the nation of Israel in the 10th century B.C. as a holy land, set apart, and promised to God’s people?

Is it really possible that God can work together all things for good? How can God actually use all things for our good? Such a huge question deserves an equally huge answer.

What does it truly mean for God to remove our sins “as far as the east is from the west”? It’s a declaration of infinite grace, reaching farther than we often dare to imagine.

The law of God, which demands the ultimate punishment for sin, now has no claim on anyone who trusts in Christ. They are free from the law of sin and death.