[11/25/2021 - Thanksgiving Day] "Why God Loves a Cheerful Giver" 2 Corinthians 9.1-15

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All were welcome and invited to attend corporate Thanksgiving day worship. Our start time will be 10:00. Plan for good singing, responsive reading, cheerful giving, and especially the preached Word! Our thanksgiving text will be 2 Corinthians 9.1-15 a passage which ends with... "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" but what gift is Paul thankful for? The truth is perhaps more fulsome than we might first think. For example, what does our use of money have to do with that 'Thanks be to God' and to thanksgiving? The theme for the sermon will be "An understanding of what we have been given leads us to give cheerfully". I hope you can come!

Prelude

Call to Worship

*Salutation

*Hymn 312 – We Gather Together - CCLI License # 699348

Responsive Reading – Deuteronomy 15

Hymn 1 (Red) – How Great Thou Art - CCLI License # 699348

2 Corinthians 9.1-15 Why God Loves a Cheerful Giver

Theme: An understanding of what we have been given leads us to give cheerfully

1. A grasp of the gospel grasped the Corinthians, 1-2

2. Yet the diaconal office helps u

3. We can be sure that God provides plenty! 8-10

4. Giving causes us all to bring thanks back to God, 11-15