2022-11-20

Posted on Nov 19, 2022 in Bulletin |

Are We Thankful?

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Sat Nov 26 | 9am Hanging of the Greens
    • Thur Dec 1 Poinsettia Deadline
  • Prelude
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – UMH 821 – Psalm 100
    • 1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands!
    • 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into God’s presence with singing!
    • 3 Know that the Lord, who made us, is God.
    • We are the Lord’s; we are the people of God, the sheep of God’s pasture.
    • 4 Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving, and God’s courts with praise!
    • Give thanks and bless God’s name!
    • 5 For the Lord is good;
    • God’s steadfast love endures forever; God’s faithfulness to all generations.
  • Readings
    • [1 Chronicles 29:12-13 ESV]
    • 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
    • 13 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.
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    • [Psalm 69:30 ESV]
    • 30 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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    • [Psalm 30:1-4 ESV]
    • 1 A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple. I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
    • 2 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
    • 3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
    • 4 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
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    • [Psalm 147:7 ESV]
    • 7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 131 – We Gather Together
    • UMH 694 – Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
    • 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) – © 2011 Atlas Mountain Music
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2036 – Give Thanks
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Are We Thankful?”
    • [2 Corinthians 9:10-12, 15 ESV]
    • 10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
    • 11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
    • 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
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    • 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
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    • [Colossians 3:12-17 ESV]
    • 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
    • 13 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.
    • 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
    • 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
    • 16 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.
    • 17 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.
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    • [1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV]
    • 16 Rejoice always,
    • 17 pray without ceasing,
    • 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 557 – Blest Be the Tie That Binds
  • Benediction
  • Postlude