Thanksgiving in Scripture always has a context, a connection. Often it is connected to prayer. Here, it is connected to spiritual vigilance -- "watch in the same with thanksgiving."
There are enemies to our holiness against which we must guard; sins in family life, sins of the tongue, sins of anxiety and ingratitude. The guardian is biblical thanksgiving.
What is thanksgiving? True thanksgiving? In everything, for everything, always, and ultimately, for what we have in Christ.
Our pastor explains and connects these things in this sermon on Colossans 4:2.
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Rodney Kleyn was born and raised in the Evangelical Presbyterian Churches in Australia and pastored for 20 years at Trinity Protestant Reformed Church in Hudsonville, MI (2002-2009), Covenant of Grace Church in Spokane, WA (2009-2021), and First Protestant Reformed Church in...