So good to see all of you here this morning. I hope you. Had a a wonderful Thanksgiving season. And that you are freshly mindful of how much you as a believer have to be grateful for.
in keeping with that theme of Thanksgiving, I wanna speak to you on the topic of Thanksgiving and the title of the message is, motivations to. to be thankful. I hope you realize that Thanksgiving is not something that you do one day out of the year, but it's something that is to be the consistent pattern of our life for reasons that we're going to explore. In the message this morning.
but let me start, by having you turn to Luke chapter 18. We're gonna look at a handful of passages of scripture and we'll start in Luke chapter 18. Robert Emmons, is a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, and back in 2013, he wrote a book entitled Gratitude Works. And speaking of what he learned while researching for this book, he said, and I quote, dozens of studies have found that gratitude can improve well-being and can even help people curb depression and anxiety, improve cholesterol.
And get better sleep. Grateful people engage in more exercise, have better dietary behaviors, and are less likely to smoke and abuse alcohol, unquote, all of which leads Robert Emmons to make. This statement saying. Gratitude....
