November 22, 2020
Preparation for Worship: THANKSGIVING SUNDAY
Time for Gathering
Opening Hymn “Come, Ye Thankful People, Come!”
1 Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home; all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
2 All the world is God's own field, fruit as praise to God we yield; wheat and tares together sown are to joy or sorrow grown; first the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear; Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.
3 For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take the harvest home; from the field shall in that day all offenses purge away, giving angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast; but the fruitful ears to store in the garner evermore.
4 Even so, Lord, quickly come, bring thy final harvest home; gather thou thy people in, free from sorrow, free from sin, there, forever purified, in thy presence to abide; come, with all thine angels, come, raise the glorious harvest home.
Prayer of Praise
Song of Worship
Prayers of the Church and Prayer of Our Lord
Offering and Doxology
Scripture Lesson: Psalm 95: 1-7a Page 457
Sermon: Thanksgiving Outlaws
Closing Hymn: “Now Thank We All Our God”
1 Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom his world rejoices; who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
2 O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, with ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us, to keep us in his grace, and guide us when perplexed, and free us from all ills of this world in the next.
3 All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given, the Son and Him who reigns with them in highest heaven the one eternal God, whom heaven and earth adore; for thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.
Benediction
