Gratitude for Grace
The way to conquer a spirit of criticism is to actively pursue the awareness of and gratitude for marks of grace in others.
Being Content with What You Have
This article explains how Scripture often treats contentment along with its opposite, covetousness. Whether we covet or are content, we are revealing our answer to the question, whom do we serve?
The Refreshing Beauty of Dew
Thanksgiving is first
How Does Gratitude Motivate?
We must be careful not to make our gratitude towards God the ground for our life of obedience. We don't obey because we feel obliged to express thankfulness. However, gratitude does motivate obedience.
A Serpent's Tooth “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
Godly Contentment
Contentment is the cure to covetousness. From 1 Timothy 6:6-10 this article discusses Christian contentment in relation to earthly possessions and personal circumstances.
Why I'm Ungrateful
Why is it so easy to be ungrateful? This article explains that lack of thankfulness is found in what seems normal to us.
Thanksgiving Everyday
This article discusses the heart of the meaning of gratitude.
Discontentment
The author compares carnal discontentment with spiritual discontentment, finding that one is beneficial while the other is merely a burden.
Embrace Your Purpose
Why were you saved? This article discusses several purposes of salvation, and urges the believer to embrace these reasons for the glory of God.
How We Live in Godly Contentment
The Christian's Duty of Praise and Thanksgiving
Most Valuable Thanker?
Characteristics of the Christian (3): Living Thankfully
Christians are characterized by thankfulness toward God and the people He places in our lives.
The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
Looking at the structure of the Heidelberg Catechism through the eyes of Psalm 116, this article shows that the Christian life is a life lived out of gratitude before God, which brings the blessing of assurance of faith.
Thankfulness
Christians must develop a heart of thankfulness, learn to work and speak in a thankful manner, cultivate a thankful mind, and express thankfulness in worship.
Finding Gratitude in Unlikely Places: A Thanksgiving Reflection
Our perspective on life is important to the development of an attitude of thanksgiving. Thinking about life in the light of death is one way of developing thankfulness.
Thanksgiving
A Heart of Gratitude to God
Gratitude is a mark of being a Christian, because knowing God must produce thankfulness in the heart of the believer. The work of God's redemption is the ground for our thankfulness. It is through thankfulness that we fight against legalism.