a pardon for the turkey.

i know, this is a long blog entry.  but please do read it all the way through.  and feel free to let me know your thoughts, I like discussion...

we have a lot to be thankful for...

mom and dad (gma and gpa, oma and opa): thanks

brothers (uncles): thanks

our fellowship family: thanks

co-workers: thanks

a home: thanks

food: thanks

a bed to sleep on: thanks

life: thanks

health: thanks

tricia and little man put together a thankful train with each letter of the alphabet.  each night around the table we discuss what we are thankful for that begins with that nights letter.

a countdown to THANKSgiving.
{thanks gma heimer for the thankful train idea!}

i have heard the recent news of a good friend of mine loosing his mother suddenly.  but they have such hope.

another friend of mine, who loves Jesus, is on his last day.  but his family has such hope.  why? 

go find out here at jackkeller.org  

click on jacks blog, scroll down to the third post and read 

“You Can Be Sure.”

when i hear news like this i start praying for all the people in my life, family/friends/etc., and wonder if they know where they would go when they die.  You can be sure...

this morning i read this from our daily bread and wanted to share it with you.

“The Thanksgiving Pardon: {from Our Daily Bread}

1 Jn 1:7

Each year at the end of November, the President of the United States issues an official pardon for the National Thanksgiving Turkey. During this lighthearted ceremony, one president remarked: “Our guest of honor looks a little nervous. Nobody’s told him yet that I’m going to give him a pardon.” The poor turkey had a good reason to be uneasy—without an acquittal, he was doomed to be Thanksgiving dinner.

We are in a similar situation when it comes to our sin. Without God’s pardon, we’re on our way to certain demise. This condition is a direct result of our own wrongdoing. The Bible says, “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). However, we can be set free from this death sentence because God’s Son bore our sin in His body on the cross, “that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). First John 1:7 tells us that Jesus’ blood “cleanses us from all sin.”

We can accept God’s pardon for our sin and receive eternal life when we confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9). Today, consider how you will respond to God’s offer of forgiveness.”

i found the story of pardoning the turkey humorous and also very parallel to what God has done for us through the death of His only Son.

my honest question for you would be, how have you responded to the pardon you have been given?  

i have accepted this gift and i hope that by how i live i show the change that He has made in my heart, turning my heart from a heart of stone (death) to a heart of flesh (life).  i hope my life looks differently as one who has accepted this pardon, although i daily need to ask for forgiveness as my sinful nature at times gets the best of me.  accepting His gift does not make me perfect, i am still a human being with a sinful nature, but it does make me forgiven with new life.

for this (his pardon and rescue) i am utmost thankful for: THANKS.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

need more reading, Romans 3:19-31.  "and give thanks that He loves us so much that he sent his Son to die for us."

from chad.