Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Seattle Mennonite Church is an active Anabaptist Mennonite Christian congregation working faithfully at following Jesus in our urban context. All are welcome! Listen in to our Sunday morning sermons to get a sense of who we are.
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Gratitude and Blessing
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SMC preachers
Christine Sine explores a variety of practices to increase our experience of gratitude. In this overstimulating, stressful world gratitude is an active way to push back on the negative and highlight the positive. This service ended in a St Francis Day blessing for our animals, those that God brings into our life and we sometimes forget to regard with gratitude.
Sermon begins at minute marker 6:08
2 Corinthians 9.6-15
Resources
- Brother David Steindl-Rast - A Good Day - A video on gratitude. https://youtu.be/3Zl9puhwiyw?si=ltzLtlUqFzDZxay5
- Elaine Breckenridge’s blessing of the animals. https://godspacelight.com/2023/10/07/a-blessing-for-animals-to-celebrate-st-francis/
- Godspace gratitude resources and links - https://godspacelight.com/seasons-blessings/
- Image: Goldie, by Christine Sine
- Hymn: 419 - Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Thomas O. Chisholm, music, William M. Runyan, text, Songs of Salvation and Service, 1923. Public Domain. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.