Let Us Give Thanks
Thanksgiving Day, 2018 St. Paul’s, Kansas City Joel 2:21-27 Matthew 6:25-33 Thanksgiving has come around once again; a holiday for gathering with distant loved ones and rediscovering all the reasons for not seeing them more often. We gorge ourselves on turkeys and all the products of a bountiful harvest, and then settle in for the real reason for the celebration, football. Football on Thanksgiving Day has been around almost as long as the sport itself. The first intercollegiate championship game took place on Thanksgiving Day 1876, and by the 1890s more than 5,000 club, college, and high school football games were taking place on Thanksgiving. Major games, such Yale vs. Princeton, could draw crowds of 40,000. The NFL took up the tradition in 1934, when the Detroit Lions took on the Chicago Bears. They are recreating that game today, but I personally recommend Washington at Dallas, followed by Atlanta at New Orleans this evenin...