Yesterday.

[Guest Guest]

How did everyone's Thanksgiving day go?
Ours went well.
God bless,
Crushmaster.

[HappyChristian]

Ours went well also. We began the day at church for breakfast - a tradition going back to the beginnings of the church. The men prepped, cooked and served the breakfast, and then cleaned up the mess! :thumb After the breakfast, we met for our mid-week service (always on Thursday, this is the only time of the year it's in the morning). And we had a time of testimony. Great way to start the day!

Then it was on to the library, where we had reserved the meeting room for our get-together. We had about 35 people. Ate some good food, played some fun games. My hubby designed a new game - "Name that Tune." Chose 10 hymns and had someone play the first note; for each extra note needed, he gave clues - read the verse that inspired the hymn, etc. It was fun. Played more games and grazed all day.

We left around midnight, which is actually early for this day.

Had a wonderful time fellowshipping with some of our Christian friends.

[CJP56]

Our Thanksgiving Day went very well. We had a good time of fellowship with our oldest daughter and her family. Our youngest daughter and her family went to visit her DH's family this year and we missed them, but that is the way it goes. We had a lot of very delicious food too! CJP56.

[John81]

Okay.

[JerryNumbers]

Our Thanksgiving Day went very well. We had a good time of fellowship with our oldest daughter and her family. Our youngest daughter and her family went to visit her DH's family this year and we missed them' date=' but that is the way it goes. We had a lot of very delicious food too! CJP56.[/quote']

Don't like that sharing part, but it does come when the children marry. I know it happened to my father & mother too, don't think they like it any better than I.

[kevinmiller]

I made my first Thanksgiving dinner today, and it was actually delicious!
I made steak(also the first time) for my friend and I and it was really good. I enjoyed the leftovers this evening. I also picked up rolls from a local bakery, made corn, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce(which was also really really good, my mom's recipe).

[John81]

I finished the Thanksgiving leftovers this morning for breakfast. :Green

Now wife will have to cook again. :lol:

[bzmomo7]

I finished the Thanksgiving leftovers this morning for breakfast. :Green

Now wife will have to cook again.

We bought a 23lb. turkey. We've ate up most of the stuffing, potatoes and veggies. (They polished off the pie before I even got downstairs for breakfast) Next, we'll be moving on now to turkey sandwiches, turkey and rice bake, and who knows......turkey tacos??! The possibilities seem almost endless! I suppose, I MIGHT have mercy on them, though, and freeze the left-overs tonight, then use them up in chicken recipes over the next week or two. :Green

[Danny Carlton]

Somewhat typical. There's always some tension in my family. I'm the only one with a college degree and though I've never thought that makes me any better, my siblings act as if I do and try to cut me down to size every chance they get. My dad just got broadband, so we brought our laptops to show him how fun they can be. My dad's retired and keeps himself as busy as he can at 72. He just built a large porch off the end of his house that faces the sunset. I'd been telling him he'd enjoy doing his computer stuff out there with a laptop using wifi. Well when we arrived my younger brother was updating my dad's and my nephew's (who lives with my dad) computers to XP SP3. (it was a large download they'd never been able to do on dial-up) He'd already set the security on the router so I needed the passcode to get connected. I had to wait for 15 to 20 minutes while he made every flimsy excuse in the book to not give it to me, claiming it would mess up his downloads. We have 7 computers at our house all connected to the internet and they rarely lessen the download speed on any of the internet connections. The annoying thing is we have the SP3 update at home, and could have brought it on a CD or a jump drive if he'd simply mentioned it at any time.

We eventually got on and my brother got their computers updated. My dad had only had dial-up up to now, so we showed him YouTube, although I doubt he'll use it much. he mostly likes to mess with his genealogy programs and web sites.

I did manage to install a remote control program, so whenever my dad has any problems with his computer I can handle it from home.

The meal went okay, although it seemed very quick. Almost as soon as it was over my two brothers started making excuses to leave. My wife was getting angry with the way they were behaving and started nagging me for us to leave. I really wanted to stay and visit with my dad. I'm usually so busy and the roads to his house have been closed due to safety concerns (one's finally open, but the shortest route is still closed) so it's rare I get to see him. We finally left, too early for my taste.

One odd thing that happened though. Not long after we arrived, my brother, sister and nephew were talking about Obama, but regaling every one with some very racist jokes. I hadn't realized how "sheltered" I am because that was the first time I'd heard anyone tell any racist jokes about Obama. I didn't think they were funny and didn't laugh, but I didn't want to make a tense situation worse by objecting. Ironically, the conversation quickly shifted to how Black comedians can get away with telling racist jokes. They didn't comprehend the hypocrisy in complaining about other people doing what they were just doing.

It made me realize one thing, family or not, apparently I pick a better quality of people to communicate with, since I was oblivious to the fact that so many racist jokes about Obama have been floating around out there. I read a smattering of conservative blogs and post here, and really, that's about the extent of my usual conversation with the outside world since I work from home.

You guys spoil me I guess. I knew you guys were a notch above the average, I guess I never realized how many notches.

[deputydog530]

Our Thanksgiveing went great.

Danny you stated the following

One odd thing that happened though. Not long after we arrived, my brother, sister and nephew were talking about Obama, but regaling every one with some very racist jokes. I hadn't realized how "sheltered" I am because that was the first time I'd heard anyone tell any racist jokes about Obama.

This just struck me funny (no pun intended) that as I grow in the ministry, I have seen so many Christians who lived "sheltered" lives. This is not a bad thing. Living under the word of God in your home is so cool. Would love to have been raised Christian. Anyway, between my upbringing and Law Enforcement, not much takes me by suprize. Ive seen many things I wish I never would have that still haunt me today. There is no point to this, just saw this coment and wanted to coment :hijack:

Back on Topic

We went to Nampa Idaho and saw my wife's sister and Brother in Law. He is a Pastor and we are praying about going to either establish or take a work somewhere. Just waiting on the Lord. Naturally I ate to much food, but it was good. :wink

[John81]

Our Thanksgiveing went great.

Danny you stated the following



This just struck me funny (no pun intended) that as I grow in the ministry, I have seen so many Christians who lived "sheltered" lives. This is not a bad thing. Living under the word of God in your home is so cool. Would love to have been raised Christian. Anyway, between my upbringing and Law Enforcement, not much takes me by suprize. Ive seen many things I wish I never would have that still haunt me today. There is no point to this, just saw this coment and wanted to coment :hijack:

Back on Topic

We went to Nampa Idaho and saw my wife's sister and Brother in Law. He is a Pastor and we are praying about going to either establish or take a work somewhere. Just waiting on the Lord. Naturally I ate to much food, but it was good.

Actually, a great hijacking!

I didn't grow up in a Christian home either and there is so much I wish I had been "sheltered" from. Sadly, when I first came to Christ, "God, Jesus and Christ" were mostly just cuss words to me. :sad It was actually hard for me to say those without feeling bad or thinking bad. Thankfully, the Lord took that away in a short time, but boy did that ever hit hard at first.

There are so many things I wish I could have been sheltered from over the years. As one reads Scripture it's clear part of a parents job is to shelter their children. Why some parents feel the opposite is beyond me.

[deputydog530]

Amen Brother John :smile

[JerryNumbers]

Many, seem to think they have to experience much of the ungodly stuff to be a good Christian.

Seems like many, I am not going to judge them, just saying it this way to try and get the point across, who say they have accepted Christ as their Savior, seem to really glorify their past sins while giving their testimony before churches across the country. Seems many of them feel if i can top the last ones story I can get a larger love offering.

But, is it good for our youngster to hear such detail of the sins they have lived in? Does it make our youngsters and even some of the church member lust to do the things they say they did instead of waking with God?

I recall a singer at a Baptist church once, he had reformed from the night life of playing in bar rooms and such. He did not go into gory details, he just said, If a movie of my life was showed here tonight I would hang my head in shame and would not be able to look you in the face, he did not give details.

Many times, one happiness depends on the things they have not done. Ask a recovered drunk or drug addict.

You do not have to experience the worse sins to be happy in the Lord.

Like one evangelist said, you don't have to sow wild oats, you can get saved at an early age and never go down the path of sowing wild oats.

[John81]

Wow Jerry, our pastor touched on this in his last sermon!

He pointed out how it's good to give a testimony and nothing wrong with mentioning some of the sins one might have been caught up in, but there is no need (and no real good) to going into detail and turning it into a major story.

As pastor pointed out, many folks seem to get a great deal of pleasure, even pride, in pointing out how big and bad a sinner they were.

Like Pastor said, we don't need to hear all the details, even if we are confessing to one another or are seeking help. If you come forth and say you committed adultery, that's all one really needs to know, the details don't need to be shared and the pastor (or whatever Christian they are talking to) shouldn't want to hear such either.

Which Pastor pointed out is another problem along these lines, and that's those Christians who will listen to someone telling about their sins and if the person pauses they are like, "then what?"... These people are finding entertainment in listening to stories of sin.

We must always guard our hearts and keep check over our motives and look to see if what we are saying or listening to is truly necessary, beneficial or edifying.

[JerryNumbers]

Wow Jerry, our pastor touched on this in his last sermon!

He pointed out how it's good to give a testimony and nothing wrong with mentioning some of the sins one might have been caught up in, but there is no need (and no real good) to going into detail and turning it into a major story.

As pastor pointed out, many folks seem to get a great deal of pleasure, even pride, in pointing out how big and bad a sinner they were.

Like Pastor said, we don't need to hear all the details, even if we are confessing to one another or are seeking help. If you come forth and say you committed adultery, that's all one really needs to know, the details don't need to be shared and the pastor (or whatever Christian they are talking to) shouldn't want to hear such either.

Which Pastor pointed out is another problem along these lines, and that's those Christians who will listen to someone telling about their sins and if the person pauses they are like, "then what?"... These people are finding entertainment in listening to stories of sin.

We must always guard our hearts and keep check over our motives and look to see if what we are saying or listening to is truly necessary, beneficial or edifying.

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But many want the details, that is why many Christians watch soap operas and other shows that are filled full of sin.

That's why many Christians love to read romance novels.