I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
His only Son our Lod, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

response reading 105. Thanksgiving Day (1)
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.
Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.
They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress. He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,
for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.


hymnal 589
1. Far and near the fields are teeming With the waves of ripened grain;
Far and near their gold is gleaming Over the sunny slope and plain.
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers! Hear us, Lord to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather, Ere the harvest time pass by.
2. Send them forth with morn's first beaming, Send them in the noontide's glare;
When the sun's last lays are gleaming, Bid them gather everywhere.
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers! Hear us, Lord to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather, Ere the harvesttime pass by.
3. O thou, whom thy Lord is sending, Gather now the sheaves of gold;
heavenward then at ev'ning wending, Thou shalt come with joy untold.
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers! Hear us, Lord to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather, Ere the harvesttime pass by.
4. When the harvest is completed And the last grain safely stored,
Then with joy shall we be seated At the banquet of the Lord.
Lord of harvest, send forth reapers! Hear us, Lord to Thee we cry;
Send them now the sheaves to gather, Ere the harvesttime pass by. Amen.


hymnal 633
Take these gifts, take these gifts, O our God:
All we have, all we have comes from you.
With our voices raised in thanks, Lord, we give to you. Amen.


Hebrews 3:4-14
4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
5 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future.
6 But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' "
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.

1. On the hill side the sun is set. Bright twilights all cov'ring the earth.
On His shoulder He had the cross Oft'n I think of our dearest Lord.
The crown of thorns upon His head Royal red robe He had to wear.
This is the way Jesus passed by, Out of the city, the narrow way.

2. When He passed by, hearing the cross, Sweat and blood were seen in his steps.
One by one step He had to go To the place called Calvary's hill.
Oh vicious were rulers of Jews. Merciless were soldiers of Rome.
Upon His step where He went on, All the suff'ring He had to bear.

3. Without tears and shedding of blood No one can pass this holy way.
Jesus went to Golgotha's hill On His shoulder He carried cross.
We have to go this narrow way For the blessings God grants to us.
We will go up all the way through Ev'n we have to die on this way.

4. Jesus cured our weak and sick legs, Made us walk and run up to You.
Jesus opened our blinded eyes, Making us see the way to life.
We will stand fast bearing our cross Through the pains and trials of life.
Jesus our Lord make us proceed To the place where thy cross was raised.
Amen.