Pastor Paul offers a Thanksgiving Weekend devotional on giving thanks for trials and difficult times in addition to what we think of as pleasant things and blessings. Using various Thanksgiving weeks from his own life ranging from 1985 through 2025 (most notably a depression-ending breakthrough in 2002), Pastor Paul focuses on 1 Thes. 5:18, Eph. 5:20, and Col. 3:15-17 as key thanksgiving verses. Supporting passages include Job 1:21; 2:10; John 3:30; Rom. 8:28; 2 Cor. 12:9; Col. 1:24-29; Jas. 1:2-4, 17; 1 Pet. 1:6-9; and 2 Pet. 3:18.