Grateful Life | Recognizing the Goodness of the Giver - Season 5, Episode 126
Are we more interested in what God gives us or in knowing the God who gives? In an entitled age, believers can tear through blessings like presents on a birthday, counting what they missed instead of thanking the One who gave. Preaching from Psalm 107, Pastor Joshua shows that goodness is not merely what God does but who He is, a character no circumstance can change. Through the psalm's wanderers, prisoners, rebels, and storm-tossed sailors, he illuminates how God reveals His mercy in both blessings and burdens, and why the psalmist's fourfold cry, "Oh that men would praise the Lord," calls for a response of worship. Listeners are challenged to move from thanking God for something to praising Him for who He is.
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Grateful Life | The Theology of Thanksgiving - Season 5, Episode 121
Why do we complain so easily and give thanks so rarely, even after God has answered the very prayers we once prayed? Opening a five-part series on Thanksgiving, Pastor Dorrell turns to Colossians 2:6-7 and confronts grumbling as more than a harmless habit: it is spiritual forgetfulness and a quiet accusation against God's goodness. Biblical thanksgiving is rooted in what Christ has already done, established against the entitlement that blinds us to grace, and meant to overflow. When gratitude grows, complaining loses its oxygen and joy follows. Listeners are challenged to trade the lens of scarcity for the lens of grace, starve their grumbling, and begin each day thanking God for who He is and what He has done.
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