Giving thanks

Front and center at the Thanksgiving Eve community worship of all the Clarksville churches, held this year at St. John Lutheran, were the Psalms, especially verses about giving thanks.
The word “thanks” appears 89 times in the King James Bible out of 788,258 words, King James Bible Online states. The pastors didn’t plan with each other before the service, it just turned out that the Psalms featured prominently, the Rev. Charlie Underwood said.
The Rev. Peter Wenzel spoke first.
“1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord [… ] 2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us […] 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise […] 5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth[...]” (KJV)
“A lot of noise goes on which is anything but joyful,” Wenzel said. “We make noise which divides us and tears us apart…” The good noise, he said, is “the sound that reminds us of God’s blessing.”
Read the full article in the December 1 edition of the papers.