Topic: Keeping Thanksgiving Real.   Picks up from the Book of Romans - Chapter 12: 1.  Paul speaks of the giving of one's self as a sacrifice.  Renewal of our minds is critical to this notion.  We must be spiritually minded to give our self and our time and our energy and our money and our knowledge.  How are you achieving this with what you have been blessed with?  What is your dedication?

It is not what we say, but what we do or put in action that is true to our feelings.  We must present ourselves to the Lord today - as we live - a living sacrifice.

12 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which isyour [b]reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.