{"id":30431,"date":"2021-02-04T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30431"},"modified":"2021-02-08T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:14:23","slug":"book-review-practicing-thankfulness-by-sam-crabtree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30431","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Practicing Thankfulness, by Sam Crabtree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Crabtree, <em>Practicing Thankfulness: Cultivating a Grateful Heart in All Circumstances<\/em>. Crossway, 2021. 129 pages.<\/p>\n<p>The last 12 months have provided plenty of opportunity for discontent. A global pandemic, quarantines, natural disasters, social strife, political division\u2014these traumatic events have caused pain, fear, anxiety, anger, doubt, and despair for many. Thankfulness hasn\u2019t come easy.<\/p>\n<p>But God hasn\u2019t left us in the dark about his purposes. His Word tells us that in a fallen world we should expect trouble and trials. Even so, he\u2019s working all things for our good and his glory. He\u2019s proven his love for us at Calvary and defeated our greatest enemies. He\u2019s purchased an eternal inheritance for us and empowered us with his Spirit. And he\u2019s working in every circumstance to make us like Christ and prepare us for glory. That\u2019s good news\u2014good news that\u2019s powerful enough to conquer ungrateful hearts and replace them with thankful ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THANKFULNESS: A MARK OF MATURITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Practicing Thankfulness<\/em> by Sam Crabtree is a much-needed resource in waging war against discontent. In the opening line Crabtree writes, \u201cThankfulness is neither trivial nor inconsequential. On this one quality pivots the difference between maturity and immaturity\u201d (11). The rest of his book expands on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, want to be more faithful and thankful in your calling as a pastor, Practicing Thankfulness is a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[88,3486,3487,1079,1094],"class_list":["post-30431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-gratitude","tag-practicing-thankfulness","tag-sam-crabtree","tag-thankfulness","tag-thanksgiving","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30433,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30431\/revisions\/30433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}