MAC KIRK

Thanksgiving. I Thessalonians 5:18 says, " In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." What I have learned in thinking about this verse the last few days or so is that it is a command first of all. Give thanks. You give thanks. It is the word we often use for Communion, " Eucharist" . We wonder why such and such happens, the job goes, the washer goes, or the tire blows. And we say wonder how can we say thank you for that? The point is that we are to recognize " Divine sovereignty" and that " God is over all". ( Leon Morris ) In other words all things are under His hand even the difficulties we experience. But a Christian has much to be thankful for. A thief broke into the home of Matthew Henry , one of the most popular Bible commentators who has ever written. The robber stole Matthew's wallet. He wrote this in his diary, " Let me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me b...

All Saints Day Sunday " I sing a song of the Saints of God" " I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew. And one was a doctor, and one was a queen, and one was a shepherdess on the green: they were all of them saints of God, and I mean, God helping, to be one too." Written in 1929 and published in England by Lesbia Scott," "Lesbia Lesley Scott (1898-1986) wrote pedagogical and inspirational hymns for her three children during the 1920s. Many were written in response to the children’s suggestions: “Mum, make a hymn for a picnic,” or “Mum, make a hymn for a foggy day.” Though these domestic expressions of family faith were never intended for publication, at least one of them appears to have had a life all its own. Born in Willesden in 1898 and educated at Raven’s Croft School in Sussex, Lesbia Lesley Locket married John Mortimer Scott, a naval offi...