Psalm 100- Expressions of Thanksfulness: Life in the Church

Introduction

Good Morning! I am excited to be with you this morning to open up God’s word together. If we haven’t met, my name is Dave and I’m part of the Pastoral Staff here at Hillside.

A special word of welcome if you’re a guest with us this morning. We’re thankful that you’ve chosen to spend your Sunday morning with us.

I just want to provide one more pitch as well for our membership class this afternoon, immediately following our 3rd service. We value membership greatly at Hillside, and we’d love to have you join us and be part of what’s happening here at the church.

Pastor Keith, our Lead Pastor, will give you some insight into who we are as a church, talk through our mission and vision as a church, walk you through our statement of faith, and give you some insight into why we do things the way we do.

So I encourage you to join Pastor Keith, and Pastor Mark in the fellowship hall immediately after our 3rd service. Lunch is provided. And at the end of the time together, you’ll have the ability to take the step of membership if you so choose.

Even if you’re new with us, you know you’re not ready to take that step of membership, come, have lunch, hear more about us, and you can always choose to take the final membership step at a later date.

Today we’re continuing our mini-series entitled Expressions of Thanksgiving.

At this time of year, words and phrases like:

Thanks

Thankfulness

Thanksgiving

We hear questions like “What are you thankful for?”

I can remember being younger and sitting down around the table for thanksgiving.

And the table is full of food.

Large bowls of mashed potatoes, next to a steaming hot gravy boat.

A platter piled high with turkey

There was a large bowl of stuffing

The was a basket on the end of the table with those soft Hawaiian rolls that I only got to eat at Holiday dinners.

Steaming green bean casserole which, as a kid, I probably only ate because it was covered by those crispy french fried onion.

My Grandmother, we called her Nana, used to purchase the canned cranberry sauce.