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The way of gratitude: under the influence

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  The Way of Gratitude  Introduction: Good morning friends. Welcome again to Eastern Shore Baptist Church. Thank you for joining us today for worship. My name is Stuart Davidson and I am the pastor here. Over the last three weeks, we have been involved in a new series entitled “The Way of Gratitude”. It’s a series centered around being thankful, grateful, and just cultivating an overall spirit of praise.  I’ve said it now every single week. People are grateful when their outcomes are positive. We may not always say it, but we are mainly grateful when our health is good, when our loved ones are near, when we have money in the bank, and when we are surrounded by our stuff and things.  Our gratitude is challenged when our health fails, when we are lonely, when our finances dry up, or when the eviction notice is tacked to the door.  The other day I stopped in at the Circle K just down the road from here. I had bought some gas and I walked in the convenience store to...
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The Way of Gratitude: “When Gratitude Gets Loud”

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  The Way of Gratitude Introduction: Good morning friends. My name is Stuart Davidson. I am the pastor here at Eastern Shore Baptist Church. We are in the second week of a four week series entitled “The Way of Gratitude.” The other day I was having a quiet time. I came across a super unusual story. Like crazy unusual. It was the story of the leper colony of Carville, Louisiana. You heard me correctly. A leper colony in Carville, Louisiana. 224 miles away. A mere 3 hour and 16 minute drive from Daphne, AL. The year was 1900. Carville was and still is a very small town south of Baton Rouge. The town became home to a hospital suffering from Hansen’s disease, better known as leprosy. The men and women who were sent there were quarantined. They were isolated from their families, separated from their friends, and excommunicated from society altogether. Imagine how that would have felt. Imagine the loneliness that you would have experienced. The center of the devotion centered arou...
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