Engage Community Church

Celebration of Thanks
November 20, 2011
Pastor Jon Hand

Listen to Sermon: Celebration of Thanks

We live in a world that tells us our main pursuit in life is our happiness. However, if this is our main goal it simply seems like most of life ends up standing in our way. How many of us constantly fight discontentment in the mundane guts and routines of everyday life? We believe the message of Jesus calls us to something so much better. The gospel of Jesus beckons us to live lives full of contentment and delight even right in the middle of life’s smallest inconveniences and deepest tragedies. As a community being formed around Jesus we are putting a stake in the ground and protesting the insatiable discontentment, negativity, and anxieties we deal with on a daily basis by seeking to be grateful.

On Sunday Nov. 20th we will declare our desire to live our lives filled up with thankfulness. Together with our Creator we invite contentment, generosity, thankfulness. We pause to offer praise for each other and for the gifts of life quietly tucked away into the mundane routines of life. We celebrate a God who comes to us and shows us a better way to fill our deepest longings and cravings for the things that really last.

Our hope is to head into this holiday season filled up, content, and brimming with generosity. What if we determined not to get lured into the consumerist vortex that tells us we simply don’t have enough of what we crave and need—we need more!