August 30, 2026

from Rev. Tom Hathaway

What does it mean to praise God when life gives you no obvious reason to? Psalm 22 begins with one of scripture’s most devastating questions: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Yet the psalmist still finds a way to praise from inside that forsakenness itself, refusing to let suffering become the whole story. In this sermon, we look at Psalm 22 alongside the story of Corrie and Betsie ten Boom and ask whether gratitude can become something more than optimism or obedience. Perhaps, sometimes, thanksgiving is an act of spiritual resistance, a way of insisting that even in the hardest circumstances, there is still more to the story.