Thanksgiving Audio Sermons

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Thanksgiving is an annual one-day holiday to return thanks for the abundant blessings of God. Traditionally held at the close of the harvest season, it has been designated in the US (since 1941) on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada on the second Monday in October. These annual celebrations have their history rooted in harvest festivals and feasts celebrated by early settlers and explorers and particularly in the well-documented Thanksgiving held by the colonists at Plymouth in 1621.

Here are the Thanksgiving audio sermons and talks that I have found:

John MacArthur

• What are your thoughts on celebrating God during the Thanksgiving holiday?
• Thanksgiving Eve Service

John Piper

• Thanksgiving Sermons

Escondido United Reformed Church

• Thanksgiving Day: Give Thanks To God
• The Chief Part Of Thanks
• A God To Trust
• Thanksgiving Day: A Celebration
• Thanksgiving Day: Are You In The Thanksgiving Parade?
• Thanksgiving Day: Taste and See
• Thanksgiving Day: The Call For True Thanksgiving
• True Thanksgiving Flows From communion with God
• Thanksgiving Day: God's Command To Manifest Trust
• Thanksgiving Day Service

Issues, Etc. Radio Program

• The Mayflower Pilgrims
• Thanksgiving in the Old Testament
• Thanksgiving in the New Testament
• 'Thanks' & 'Thankfulness' in Holy Scripture

Christ United Reformed Church

• Thanksgiving Day — "Come and Eat"
• Thanksgiving — "A Psalm for Giving Thanks"
• Thanksgiving Service
• Thanksgiving — "Giving Thanks in All Circumstances"

Kevin DeYoung

• A Prayer of Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Service

Aisquith Presbyterian Church

• Thanksgiving Eve 2009
• Thanksgiving Eve 2008
• Thanksgiving Eve 2007
• Thanksgiving Eve 2006
• Thanksgiving Eve 2005

Park Cities Presbyterian Church

• An Attitude of Gratitude
• A Unified Heart and Hearty Thanks
• Thanksgiving Service
• Thank You, Father

Joel Beeke

• True Thanksgiving
• Old 100's Call to Thanksgiving

Phillip Ryken

• Underwater Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving 2005
• An Urban Thanksgiving
• A Royal Thanksgiving
• Endless Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving 2009 - Steadfast Love

Sermon Audio

• Thanksgiving Sermons

Douglas Wilson

• Deep Peril, Deep Thanksgiving (Dt. 28:45-49)

Family Worship Resources

It's time to jump on the bandwagon. It seems in the last few years, especially the last few months, a renewed interest in family worship has happen. Family worship has been around since the writing of the bible. Scottish Presbyterians wrote the "Directory of Family Worship" in 1647, since then, Puritans and Christians from each generation forward to our present has written books and articles on the subject. In our generation, we not only have books and articles available, we also have recorded sermons as well.

It is my intention in this post to provide the links to some of these resources. There will be many more resources I cannot cover.

Here are some of the books on the subject:

• Family Worship Book
• The Case for Family Worship
• Family Worship
• The Family at Church
• Family Religion: Principles for Raising a Godly Family
• Disciplines of a Godly Family
• Bringing the Gospel to Covenant Children
• Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent
• One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters
• The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
• Training Hearts, Teaching Minds
• God's Mighty Acts in Creation & Salvation (Set)
• Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God

Here are some of the articles on the subject:

• Leading Your Family In Worship
• Family Worship
• Praying for your Children
• The Duties of Parents To Their Children
• Ten Commandments of Parenting
• How can parents explain the gospel to their children without toning down the commands of Scripture?
• The Family: Together in God's Presence

Here are some of the audio talks on the subject:

• How should music be included in family devotions?
• How do you do family devotions?
• How did you do family devotions when your kids were real little?
• How does Pastor John handle spiritual training in the home?
• Jesus Is Precious as the Foundation of the Family
• The Family: Together in God's Presence
• The Fulfilled Family
• Are Christian fathers commanded to daily devotions with their children?
• How do you explain the gospel to a child?
• Sovereign Grace & the Salvation of Children
• One Generation Shall Tell Your Works to Another
• Great Truths for Small People: Teaching the Sovereignty of God to Children
• Teaching the Richness of the Entire Gospel, part 1
• Teaching the Richness of the Entire Gospel, part 2
• His Story or Your Story: Who Reigns Supreme in Your Heart?
• Equipping the Family to Do Discipleship
• Sermon Audio's - Family Worship Sermons
• Child Rearing
• Resources for Family Ministry
• Doing Family Ministry: Real-Life Ministry Models for Real-Life Churches
• Family Living Series
• Marriage & Family Living Class
• Wisdom For Today
• The Christian Family
• Family Worship Part 1
• Family Worship Part 2

Covenant Radio Audio Programs

The purpose of Covenant Radio is to bring people in the Church to a place where they think through various doctrines so that they may understand what they teach and are able to deal with them on a more personal level. It does seem to be a valid observation that many in the Church today are unable to adequately define and defend their own theological views. The goal, therefore, is to offer people a source and wealth of information so that one may be assisted in knowing what they truly believe. Covenant Radio’s desire is to present a number of issues, both theological and practical in nature, to help people move their thinking to a higher level.

The hosts of Covenant Radio are Reformed in their theology and Presbyterian in Church government. The doctrinal position of the program stems from the Westminster Confession of Faith . This does mean, however, that the hosts of the program will not deal with issues that are beyond the Westminster Confession however it will always do that in the light of the Orthodox Christian faith contained within the ecumencial creeds of the Church. Covenant Radio has their own blog as well.

Covenant Radio archives yearly all their radio programs:

• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010

Here are some notable radio programs that might interest you:

• Dr. Gregg Strawbridge and Dr. James White debate the issues of Baptism and the Covenant - Part 1; Part 2
• Douglas Wilson response to Atheist Sam Harris
• Dr. Thomas Schreiner came on the show and discused his book Believer’s Baptism.
• Douglas Wilson was our guest as we discuss a topic of interest regarding the issue of Women Deacons and Ordination.
• Dr. Joel Beeke discusses his new book Living for God’s Glory: An Introdcution to Calvinism.
• Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. joins Covenant Radio to discuss family worship and related issues.
• Israel Wayne was our guest, discussing issues covered in his excellent book Homeschooling from a Biblical Worldview.
• Israel Wayne discusses the top ten homeschooling objections with the host of Covenant Radio.