GIVE THANKS • Dardanelle Missionary Baptist Church, Dardanelle, Arkansas
Pastor Chuck Trusty • Seven Sunday mornings, October 11 — November 22, 2026
Begins Sunday morning, October 11, 2026.
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” — Psalm 100:4
Seven Sunday mornings, running up to the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
We treat thankfulness as a mood — something that comes over a man when things are going well and leaves him when they are not. The Bible does not treat it that way at all. Thankfulness is memory doing its duty: the deliberate act of remembering who gave you what you have. That is why it can be commanded, and why a man can be held accountable for the lack of it.
Romans 1:21 puts unthankfulness at the head of the long slide. They knew God, “but glorified him not as God, neither were thankful” — and everything after that verse is the wreckage. Unthankfulness is not a small fault. It is the first step of the drift.
So this series walks it out: what thanksgiving is, what it says out loud, where its absence leads, what it costs a man, and where it finally sits down — at the Lord’s table, with the Lord Himself giving thanks.
The seven lessons
Each lesson is added here as it is preached.
1. Enter His Gates
Thankfulness is worship’s front door • Psalm 100 • Sunday morning, October 11
2. Let the Redeemed Say So
Thankfulness has a testimony • Psalm 107:1-2 • Sunday morning, October 18
3. The First Step of the Drift
Where unthankfulness leads • Romans 1:21 • Sunday morning, October 25
4. The Nine Who Never Came Back
The difference between a blessing and a relationship • Luke 17:11-19 • Sunday morning, November 1
5. In Everything, Not For Everything
Thankfulness when the news is bad • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 • Philippians 4:6-7 • Sunday morning, November 8
6. The Sacrifice of Praise
Thankfulness that costs something • Hebrews 13:15 • Jonah 2:9 • Sunday morning, November 15
7. He Gave Thanks
The table that teaches thanksgiving • 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 • Sunday morning, November 22, with the Lord’s Supper
Every lesson is also kept on the Lessons page.
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