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Choosing Gratitude: Week 9

8/1/2023

It's been good and helpful these last 8 weeks to focus on the subject of #gratitude. But today we must determine to move past the attitude of having seasons of #gratefulness to making gratitude a day-by-day, lifetime #habit. What does this look like? Is that even possible? How can we maintain this kind of attitude? Though gratitude is ultimately a work of #God in our hearts, it also involves effort on our part. There are things we can DO to grow in gratitude. #Biblestudy #amreading #goodreads

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 8

7/25/2023

I sat down with a #pastor’s #wife not long ago who 2 months previously lost her #husband to #cancer. It had been #heartbreaking for her to watch him painfully deteriorate. As I #prayed before our meeting, I could sense that #God was asking me to read Ps. 91. I didn't want to #read it but I knew I had to. I couldn’t keep back the #tears. Why was it so hard to read Ps. 91 after cancer just took her husband? Then it dawned on me--cancer did not take this #godly man. God took him. #Psalm 91 is true!

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 7

7/18/2023

What are you #grateful for? We hear that question quite frequently. Especially during the #Thanksgiving season. This is “#Gratitude 101.” The basics. But though we may have a list a mile long containing things that we are grateful for, our list most likely would differ from that of our unsaved neighbor’s, not only in its content but also in its purpose. This has been a theme throughout this study. #Christian gratitude is different than the world’s gratitude... #goodreads #readinglist #amreading

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 5

7/4/2023

There are unmistakable differences in the personalities and temperaments of those with whom we do life. The extrovert vs. the introvert, the planner vs. the spontaneous, the thrifty vs. the spender. These differences can drive us crazy, but they also add the balance and spice to our lives that is needed. One spice we can do without though is the whiner--he complaining spirit. I rarely throw away a spice, but the whiner in me must go. It cannot blend, it cannot coexist, with worship and gratitude.

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 4

6/27/2023

Do you know anyone who is bound by #anxiety and needs to be released? Anxiety is a prison, and #gratitude is what brings #freedom. By Choosing to make gratitude our default, there is nothing--no matter how awful--that will overthrow us and leave us in a state of anxiety. But because we are human, we may very well feel the anxiety welling up within us. We must refuse to #dwell in a state of anxiety. The temptation to be #anxious is not a sin. The choice to live in a state of anxiety is. #reading

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 3

6/20/2023

Do you consider yourself a #grateful person? You may think, “I’m more grateful than the average person. After all, I'm a #Christian. Christians are grateful, right?” Did you know ingratitude is our first step away from #God? That sobering! Let’s fix that! Elizabeth Elliot said, “Thankless children we ALL are, more or less, comprehending but dimly the truth of God’s fathomless love for us.” According to that statement, we are thankless when we do not comprehend God’s fathomless love for us.

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

Choosing Gratitude: Week 2

6/13/2023

How do we cultivate a life of #gratitude? Keep a gratitude #journal. #Write thank-you notes to people who have #blessed you. Spend time each day reflecting on the good things in your life. Express your gratitude to #God in #prayer. Join us for this powerful #study! Each weekly post will be posted on Tuesday mornings at 9. over on the #blog, 6/6/23 - 8/1/23. Feel free to discuss the book and share your thoughts in the comments. Let's make cultivating gratitude a priority in our lives this summer!

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

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