THE LORD’S DAY

An Order for Worship

Last  Sunday after Pentecost

Thanksgiving Sunday

November 22, 2026

 

Minister                                                                                   Rev. Bruce Hedman

Organist                                                                                                Brenda Pike

 

The Preparation

Organ Prelude

Call to Worship

Leader:  O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His steadfast love

endures forever.

PEOPLE:  FOR HE SATISFIES THOSE WHO THIRST, AND THE

HUNGRY HE FILLS WITH GOOD THINGS.

Leader:  Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the

Lord our Maker.

PEOPLE:  FOR HE IS OUR GOD, AND WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF

HIS PASTURE, AND THE SHEEP OF HIS HAND.

*Pilgrim Hymnal No. 461                                                    St. George’s Windsor

“Come, Ye Thankful People, Come”

Prayer of Adoration and Lord’s Prayer (unison, using “debts”)

Prayer of Confession (unison):

ALMIGHTY AND ALL-HOLY FATHER, WE CONFESS THAT WE ARE UNWORTHY OF THINE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT.  WE HAVE NOT LOVED THEE AS WE OUGHT, NOR HAVE WE ALWAYS BEEN LOVING TO ONE ANOTHER.  THE GOOD GIFTS THOU HAST BESTOWED UPON US WE HAVE NOT USED TO RELIEVE THE BURDENS OF OTHERS.  OUR THANKSGIVINGS TOO OFTEN HAVE GROWN COLD, AND WE HAVE TAKEN THY GIFTS FOR GRANTED.  PARDON AND BLOT OUT OUR OFFENSES, WE PRAY THEE, THROUGH THE INCARNATE LIFE AND WILLING SACRIFICE OF THY HOLY SON, EVEN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.  AMEN.

Assurance of Pardon

Psalter Reading (responsive):         Psalm 136            Selection 105           p. 536

*Gloria Patri

 

Litany of Thanksgiving

Greetings and Announcements

Leader:  Merciful Father, thy constant love sustains the world day by day.  We

Thank thee for providing for our basic needs, for food, health, and shelter.

PEOPLE:  WE GIVE THEE THANKS, O MERCIFUL FATHER.

Leader:  Everlasting Father, to be in thy presence is happiness.  We thank thee

for thy promise to be with us always, even through the valley of  the shadow of death.

PEOPLE:  WE GIVE THEE THANKS, EVERLASTING FATHER.

Leader:  Eternal Son of God, for our sakes thou didst become man.  We thank

Thee for our redemption which thou didst purchase with thy blood on Calvary’s cross.

PEOPLE:  PRAISE TO THEE, ETERNAL SON OF GOD.

Leader:  Lord Jesus, thou hast gone on before to prepare for us a place in thy

Father’s house.  We thank thee for the hope of eternal glory all have whose faith forever unites them to thee.

PEOPLE:  PRAISE TO THEE, LORD JESUS.

Leader:  O Holy Spirit, thou dost quietly move within human hearts.  We thank

Thee for bringing us to faith in Jesus as Savior.

PEOPLE:  GLORY BE TO THEE, O HOLY SPIRIT.

Leader:  Spirit of Jesus, thou dost shed abroad the love of God within our hearts.

We thank thee for uniting us with others in thy church that we may share thy love with them, both here and hereafter in thy kingdom which hast no end.

ALL:      GLORY BE TO THEE, O FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT,

WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN.

Organ Response

The Offertory

Offertory Sentences & The Collection

*Doxology and Prayer of Dedication

*Pilgrim Hymnal  No. 21                                                                          Kremser

“We Gather Together”

 

The Proclamation of the Word

Collect of the Day

Old Testament Lesson:                                                    Ezekiel 34: 11-16, 20-24

Epistle Lesson:                                                                          Ephesians 1: 15-23

Gospel Lesson:                                                                          Matthew 25: 31-46

Sermon                                                                                               Rev. Hedman

“The Sheep and the Goats”

Ascription of Glory

*The Apostles’ Creed                      Selection 51                                         p. 511

*Pilgrim Hymnal No. 29                                                                     Nun Danket

“Now Thank We All Our God”

*Benediction

*Organ Postlude

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our 275TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK is available on the narthex table.  Please give Deb Simpson $20 for each copy.

Remember to bring canned goods and nonperishable food stuffs for our  FOOD BANK collection. And there is a change can in the narthex for monetary contributions.