Prelude: Behold! What Manner of Love Theodore Dubois/arr. Richard D. Row
Suzannah Waddington, soprano

Behold! what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God: the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not, beloved, now are we the sons of God, it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Welcome

Call to Worship

Doxology Old Hundredth

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Invocation

Hymn 76: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven Lauda Anima

Prayer of Confession

Holy Lord, we are not fit to come before you. We have no righteousness of our own to offer and we possess nothing to sacrifice that is worthy of the great debt that we owe you. We have not done what is just and right, but instead have frequently sinned in our words and our actions. We have not loved kindness and delighted our souls in doing others good. We have not walked humbly and wisely before you, but have walked in our own wisdom and followed the counsel of the world around us. Father, forgive us. Holy Spirit, take away our stony hearts and create in us true goodness and beauty. Give us grace to walk in your statutes out of the thankfulness for the rich salvation we have in Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Ephesians 2:4–7

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Gloria Patri Meineke

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.

Responsive New Testament Reading: Colossians 3:12–17

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Hymn 716: Sing to the Lord of Harvest Wie Lieblich ist der Maien

Offering Prayer

Offertory: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion from Messiah George Frederic Handel Suzannah Waddington, soprano

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy King cometh unto thee; He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.

Scripture Reading: Psalm 100 (pew Bible p. 500)

Sermon: ’Tis the Reason for Thanksgiving Dr. Jonny Gibson

Hymn 98: Now Thank We All Our God Nun Danket

Benediction

Postlude: Now Thank We All Our God arr. Virgil Fox

Colin Howland, organ

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