The annual Thanksgiving message takes a Hebrew word as its key — todah — and spends its first stretch on what the research actually says about gratitude. Then three things it does: brings peace, opens the door, and wins battles.

Everyone wants the breakthrough moment; almost nobody wants the ordinary weeks that prepare for it. Pastor Adam opens a series on chronos and kairos with fruit picked early and gassed into ripeness — it looks the part and has nothing in it.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 — living to please God, taken from… read more