This week we celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. It is an appropriate time of year to focus on gratitude and giving thanks. The benefits of being grateful are many. Thankfulness is connected to joy, peace, awe, and wonder, and so there is good reason to be thankful people. More important than the benefits, however, is that the proper response to the gospel is gratitude. Grace and gratitude are interwoven, and in the face of the overwhelming grace of Christ, are hearts are to be full of thanks.