The Berthoud Bugle: Thank you
- berthoudfoursquare
- Jun 1
- 9 min read
Volume 2025: Edition 38
Food for thought: Have You Thanked God Today?
Hello everyone. We thank you for your love and support for our Church and our family. Please continue to pray for our church, our pastor and his leadership, and our church leaders as we move forward into this year. We are so blessed and grateful for the growth in our church, the ability to share our messages and newsletters with our viewers, and the strengthening of our church family and viewers as a congregation and as individuals. We strive to bring encouragement and connection through this newsletter, which we will continue to post every 1st of the month. So, we hope you will continue to learn and grow in God's word with us.
Our God is an amazing Father who watches over, protects, guides, strengthens, provides for, and unconditionally loves His children. He is always faithful and is completely worthy of our honor and praise every second of every day. Afterall, He sent his only son in the flesh to die for our sins so that we may have eternal life in Him. So, I ask you this: Have you thanked God today? I encourage everyone to take a few minutes out of the day to write one letter and just thank God. Keep it on you. Place it somewhere you can find it, that way when you feel discouraged and alone. When you are tired of hearing everyone tell you what you should do or how you should do it, open it up. Listen to your own words on how grateful and thankful you are to our God.
And remember how great our God is today and always.
A Thank you letter:
To my Savoir.
The first thing I want to do is thank God.
Thank Him for everything.
Thank you for creating me, for loving me, for not letting me stay in the darkness. For watching over me and my family. For helping through all the bad times.
For being patient with me when I don’t thank you or turn to you in the good.
For the people you placed in my journey in life and the daily reminders of who I can be with you leading the way.
Thank you, Lord, for hearing my pleas and prayers when they are so repetitive.
For knowing my fears and the little faith I have and yet, you continue to put people and things in my life to remind me to fight in those moments of weakness.
Thank you for every breath, every moment.
Thank you for waiting for me when I wouldn’t say a word to you.
But especially, thank you for coming to a sinful and fallen world to save me. You died on a cross for me. For all my failures. For all my sin.
You rose on the 3rd day to open my eyes, that you are God.
You left behind all kinds of reminders through mankind, stories from generations to generations, and your words written down for all to see, you left evidence to prove to me that you are God. And with all that evidence, you watched me doubt and not follow the evidence or even dig deep into what was left behind for me to search…but yet again, you waited patiently for me time and time again. Thank you for giving me time.
Even now as I write, I am reminded how great you are. How wonderful you have been to me.
I used to think that you saved me in certain moments in time (specific moments in my life), but the reality is, every second of my life has been given to me by you. You know my story from beginning to end. You watch every move I make, knowing that each path I take could take me either direction and you continue to place people in my path to keep me on the one that leads to you. I can’t thank you enough for never, ever, giving up on a man like me.
It is amazing, I have been doing this newsletter over many years; from time to time, and I never thought; how great would it be to write a thank you letter to you, my God and Savior?
I have even seen the movie “letters to God” but not once thought or have written one. If I have, I have forgotten over time, either way, it’s long overdue…
So thank you God for waiting for me.
Who do I know who would let me time and time again, treat them so awful, so disrespectful, show little love, little to no gratitude, know all the evil and wrongs I’ve done, and yet would just wait patiently for me with open arms?
I know my wife waits patiently for me. My kids try to understand me. My family as a whole, wonder who I truly am, but in the end, if they knew my whole story, who would still be around?
And that is where God reminds me the most that He is there. Because my wife still fights for me when I have no fight. My kids still push me to remind me how I can be a great man. My family as a whole show unity in fellowship and encourage each other through small acts of love. And God answers my questions with all the little acts of love spread out through each person in my life.
Now how can I not say thank you for all that?
Thank you, God, for everything.
Thank you to the three in one I can’t comprehend. To God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Thank you for forgiving me and thank you for loving me.
Amen.
"I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit. You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.” You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, “Do not fear!” O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life."
(Lamentations 3:55-58)
"O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it."
(Psalm 139:1-6)
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Special Prayers:
Pray for Rachel Salazar that the Lord provides her with comfort, Love, and peace
Pray for all Fathers during this upcoming Father's Day for God gave them a family and children to lead, guide, protect, love, and raise in the teachings of the Lord. May God provide them patience and guidance in their parental role.
Pray for Jax and the healing and strengthening of his body
Continued prayer for our brothers and sisters in Christ in the Bangladesh Education Program. Pray for the provision of all necessary resources to support this program and for their ministry.
Pray for our Newsletter that we can continue to write through the Holy Spirit
Pray for our Pastor and our church that we may be blessed to continue to grow and share the word of God
Weekly Devotional: A Call to Thanksgiving
"Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! ... Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise!"
(Psalm 100:1,4)
The one hundredth psalm, with its call to worship, is one of the most well known in the Psalter. This familiarity can make it difficult for it to impact our hearts, though. In many ways, it's easier to study passages that are less familiar because then we aren't complacent in our study. We don't assume that we already know them.
We should never feel so comfortable with the invitation to thanksgiving that we brush over it, as if it were only rhetoric. This psalm urges us into action! As God's people, we are called to joyful worship and to thankful praise.
"Make a joyful noise" is an invitation to exuberant, vocal adoration. Such praise should not be treated as a forced obligation, as if we've swallowed something distinctly unpalatable. Instead, it should be a response to God's activity in our lives, which leads us, to borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, to be "surprised by joy." The opportunity for worship lifts the spirits of the genuine believer - and nobody is left out of the exhortation. God has made "all the earth" for the praise of His glorious grace.
The invitation also beckons us to "enter...his courts with praise." Consider the experience of the commoner outside Buckingham Palace in London, where the best you can do is poke your nose through the railings and hope for a fleeting glimpse of royalty from afar. The gate is purposefully closed to protect the sovereign. But that is not our experience with the Father. Jesus'' death tore the temple curtain in two (Matthew 27:51) and opened a new way of living for us. Through Jesus we have gained access to the Father, and the gates are thrown wide open in welcome.
Our expressions of gratitude in joyful worship and thankful praise are not to be tied to our circumstances or feelings. The real foundation for thanksgiving is in knowing that the Lord is God and that He has invited us into His courts, to surround His throne as His subjects but also as His children. To recognize this is to have firm ground underfoot so that each of us can say with the psalmist:
"He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God."
(Psalm 40:2-3)
One day you will stand there, in his courts. Until then, each Sunday you can stand with others in your local church - an embassy of that heavenly throne room - and anticipate that future day by singing with joy to the Lord.
Begg, Alistair. Truth for Life - Volume 1. The Good Book Company, 1 Oct. 2021.
Verse of the Week:
"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:22-23)
Announcements:
Summer is finally here and with it, comes our burrito sale season! We are kicking off the burrito sale season with our first sale of the year on June 7th @ 8:00 AM during the Berthoud Day festivities. Following the burrito sale, we will sell burgers, hot dogs, sausages, nachos, and other goodies until 2:00 PM. Please bring a dozen burritos or baked goods per family to sell or come buy some great food in support of the church and in support of the Berthoud Community!
Don't forget that Father's Day is coming up. On June 15th we will have a special time during service to appreciate the men in our congregation for their leadership, strength, and guidance as fathers and as fellow brothers in Christ who serve not only an important purpose in their families but in our church family.
We would like to remind you that we will be having a fellowship meeting after the first or second Sunday service of every month. This month will be on June 8th after service. This meeting is an important time to have fun together and get to know each other as a church family. If you would like to plan and lead a Fellowship meeting in any of the upcoming month's year, please sign up on the Church Bulletin board.
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Questions?
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Love to thank you letter to God we all take for granted what the Lord has done for us, and I truly thank the Lord for my salvation and continues to take care of us and our family. May the Lord continue using writers for your newsletter. God bless.