Amid turkey and pie and football, we can list what we're thankful for and still miss the point. Psalm 95 won't let us settle for vague gratitude; it calls us to sing to the Lord and come into His presence with thanksgiving to the rock of our salvation.
Changing the world for God can sound easier than loving the people close enough to frustrate us. Exodus 20:12 brings that struggle home: “Honor your father and your mother.” If following Jesus takes practice, why does God begin our training in love with the first neighbors most of us ever know?
We've grown so busy we've forgotten why we gather, and our culture whispers that rest is laziness—but Exodus 20:8 calls us to remember the Sabbath as a gift, not a rule, a weekly sign that we belong to the God who rescues us and knows what we actually need.
As we come an election and contemplate how much those around us drive us crazy, God calls us to a different path as the church than what the world says we ought to do. We turn to 1 Timothy 2 for insights into the Lord’s plan for us in a partisan world.
