Learning to Be Grateful
Matthew 26:26-30 · Preached November 8, 2026
Gratitude grows when we recognize God's faithfulness through both hardship and blessing.
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Rend Your Heart Not Your Garments
Joel 2:12-13 · Preached September 13, 2026
God calls his people to move beyond performing church and return to genuine, heart-level worship.
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Faithful Forty Years of Shepherding
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 · Preached October 18, 2026
A congregation pauses to honor four decades of pastoral leadership and reflect on what faithful ministry costs and produces.
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Each one was written from a different sermon on gratitude, in that pastor's own voice. Pick a sermon and read all five days free.
Learning to Be Grateful
“Jesus didn't come for the people who had everything figured out. He came for people exactly like her. It didn't fix everything overnight. But something shifted. Because for the first time, she understood that the invitation wasn't something she had to earn.”
Read all 5 days of the devotionalRend Your Heart Not Your Garments
“Have you ever gone through the motions of something so familiar that you stopped actually feeling it? Like saying "I'm fine" before you've even checked?”
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“Every time he came through for you, every bill that somehow got paid, every hard season you survived, every moment you shouldn't have made it but did, that's God building your case for trust.”
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Ready-to-lead discussion questions, each set drawn from one sermon on gratitude. Open one and take it to your group this week.
Learning to Be Grateful
“Jesus said, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you", even knowing the cross was just hours away. The Message translation puts it this way: "You have no idea how much I have looked forward to eating this Passover meal with you.”
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“Let's Have Church Small Group Discussion Guide Based on the sermon "Let's Have Church" by Pastor Grant McCrae Franklin Avenue Baptist Church "Rend your heart and not your garments.”
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“Dr. Johnson made a distinction between God being a 'resource' and God being the 'source.' What's the difference between those two things, and how does that distinction change the way we approach God when we have a need?”
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For groups that want to go further. Each guide works through one sermon on gratitude passage by passage.
Learning to Be Grateful
“The Passover Meal The meal Jesus is sharing with his disciples in Luke 22 is the Passover, one of the most sacred annual observances in Jewish life.”
Open the deep study guideRend Your Heart Not Your Garments
“This session explores the difference between doing church and having church, between religious performance and authentic encounter with God. Pastor McCrae challenged us to examine whether comfort and blessing have quietly dulled the desperation for God's presence that once marked our worship.”
Open the deep study guideFaithful Forty Years of Shepherding
“Preacher: Dr. Troy Johnson Big Idea: God's past faithfulness is not a ceiling on what He can do, it's a foundation for trusting Him in an entirely new season.”
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Short quizzes that check whether a sermon on gratitude landed. Each one was built from that sermon's actual content.
Learning to Be Grateful
“According to Pastor Chip, what are the three things the Lord's table reveals about Jesus in Luke 22?”
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“In his sermon, Pastor Grant explained that the veil in the temple was ripped 'from bottom to top' rather than 'from top to bottom.' Why did he say this distinction matters?”
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“Dr. Johnson used the illustration of angels in heaven saying 'Holy, holy, holy' to make what point about God?”
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