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Remembering God's goodness strengthens faith, fuels gratitude, and helps Christians trust the Lord when present circumstances are difficult. In this episode of Contending for the Word Q&A, Dave Jenkins considers Psalms 103 and 77 and the biblical call to remember God's character, promises, and works. He explains how spiritual forgetfulness feeds unbelief, comparison, and discontentment, and how remembering God's grace redirects our hearts toward worship and faithful obedience. At the center of this encouragement are the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God's goodness is rooted in His unchanging character, and His love is decisively revealed in His Son. The episode concludes with five practical ways to remember His faithfulness and grow in gratitude today. For more from Contending for the Word Q&A, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-qa/

Dave Jenkins begins the November Equipping You in Grace series by examining God's sovereignty as the foundation of Christian contentment. From Psalm 115:3 and Romans 8:28–30, he explains how God's wisdom, goodness, and saving purposes sustain believers through suffering. Dave considers contentment amid grief, the meaning of God's promise to work all things for His people's good, and practical growth through Scripture, prayer, gratitude, the gathered church, and eternal hope. This episode encourages Christians to rest in Christ's sufficiency and live faithfully in difficult circumstances. For more from Equipping You in Grace, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/equipping-you-in-grace-2/

Christians can give thanks during suffering because God's character, promises, and saving grace remain unchanged. In this episode of Contending for the Word Q&A, Dave Jenkins considers 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18, Philippians 4:6–7, and Romans 8:28 to explain how biblical gratitude and honest lament can exist together. Learn to remember God's faithfulness, bring your burdens to Him in prayer, notice His ordinary mercies, and look ahead to eternal life with Christ. Thanksgiving can come through tears as believers trust the God who remains faithful in every circumstance. For more from Contending for the Word Q&A, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-qa/

Gratitude is more than a response to favorable circumstances. In this episode of Contending for the Word Q&A, Dave Jenkins explains how biblical thanksgiving grows from God's character and the saving work of Jesus Christ. Drawing on 1 Thessalonians 5:18 and Colossians 3:15–17, he considers gratitude in suffering, the danger of entitlement, and the daily practice of remembering God's ordinary mercies. Learn to give thanks honestly, resist envy and discontentment, and rest in the goodness and faithfulness of God. For more from Contending for the Word Q&A, please visit: https://servantsofgrace.org/contending-for-the-word-qa/

How long O Lord, Psalm 13. Sunday 1st November 2026 PM. Pastor Darren Rogers

This sermon explores the parable of the ten lepers to highlight the critical importance of gratitude in the Christian life. It contrasts the nine who received healing but walked away with the one Samaritan who returned to glorify God, using this narrative to challenge believers to examine their own response to divine blessings. The message emphasizes that faith involves obedience before seeing evidence, as seen when the lepers were cleansed while walking to the priest. It warns against the modern tendency to become so busy with ministry and life that worship and thanksgiving are neglected, drawing a parallel to Martha and Mary. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a deliberate choice to stop, turn back, and acknowledge God's worthiness, reminding the audience that salvation itself is the greatest reason for perpetual thanksgiving.

This sermon explores the nature of genuine worship through the account of Mary anointing Jesus' feet in John 12, arguing that true devotion is demonstrated through costly sacrifice rather than mere verbal affirmation. The message highlights Mary's deep relationship with Jesus, characterized by listening, weeping, and worshipping at His feet, which culminated in her humble and wholehearted act of love. In contrast to Judas Iscariot, who viewed the act as waste, Jesus defends Mary, illustrating that God values the potency of a believer's devotion over the monetary value of the gift. The preacher encourages the congregation to examine their own priorities, urging them to devote time, resources, and humility to knowing and serving Christ. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a life saturated in the 'fragrance' of heaven, where worship becomes a tangible evidence of salvation and a lasting testimony to others.

The Canons of Dort The Fifth Head of Doctrine – The Perseverance of the Saints ARTICLE 12 – This doctrine of perseverance (that the saints may never be lost) does not work pride in man, but works humility, reverence, piety, patience, prayer, endurance in suffering, confession of the truth, and rejoicing. This certainty of perseverance, however, is so far from exciting in believers a spirit of pride, or of rendering them carnally secure, that on the contrary it is the real source of humility, filial reverence, true piety, patience in every tribulation, fervent prayers, constancy in suffering and in confessing the truth, and of solid rejoicing in God; so that the consideration of this benefit should serve as an incentive to the serious and constant practice of gratitude and good works, as appears from the testimonies of Scripture and the examples of the saints. Not the source of pride. The source of humility. Canons of Dort: Certainty of perseverance does not make us careless. It makes us humble. Childlike reverence. Fervent prayer. Gratitude and good works —for the glory of the God who holds us. Not fire insurance.