If I told you that Thanksgiving dinner would be the last time that you ate, your response would probably be something to the effect of “Pastor is crazy. Why does he want me dead? Isn’t there a show about this on Investigate Discovery?!” But once you worked through that, you would probably think something to the effect of, I need to eat to live. In fact, eating is a BIG part of my lifestyle! For some of us, myself included, maybe too big sometimes. If we stopped eating after Thanksgiving dinner was over, we would certainly die. The same thing happens when we stop praising and thanking God after Thanksgiving…we die. Not physically or salvifically mind you, but we die in our spirit. Just like eating, praising and thanking should not be an event, it should be a lifestyle. Today, as we look at the words of Paul to the church at Thessalonica, we will see that he was calling those believers to make it a lifestyle as well. In chapter 5 we will see 3 things we must do to practice praise this Thanksgiving.

3 Things we must do to practice praise this Thanksgiving.   (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)