Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• Leviticus 2323-25
• Numbers 291-6

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• A bit of review 1 Thess. 413-18
• P.V.C.
• Perseverance
• Victory
• Companionship
• Its about reorienting ourselves towards the
  future, to anticipate the final blowing of the
  shofar. BUT

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• What about here and now? There are people who
• Sit and wait! They practice none of the above.
• Blow their own problems out of proportion.
• Are pessimistic about just everything, including
  their own problems!!
• Who do they become?
• SPIRITUAL COUCH POTATOES!!!!!

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• Get this Being spiritual couch potatoes is NOT
  an option! Christianity is belief through
  actions (James 2)!!
• What does it have to do with Rosh Hoshanah?
• Literally Head of the Year does not appear in
  the Bible.
• The Bible uses Yom Ha-Zikkaron (Literally the
  day of remembrance).

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• Because this is about making action plans for the
  new year/season!!
• Resolutions are rooted in religious and symbolic
  acts and action plans for the year.

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Entering the New Season with Thanksgiving

• So, a different set of P.V.C
• Proclamation through joyful sacrifices
• Victory over sin
• Community effort