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First Church of Christ, Scientist, La Cañada Flintridge

Thanksgiving Service

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Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 28, 2024
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t241128WMGCHymn 598: “We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing”

Thanksgiving proclamation

Scriptural Selection
  1. Ps. 95:1-6

    1O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

    2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

    3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

    4In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

    5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

    6O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

  2. Ps. 100:1-5

    1Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

    2Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

    3Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

    4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

    5For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.


Prayer: Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy

Hymn 520: “Let all things now living A song of thanksgiving”

Bible Lesson: Golden Text and Responsive Reading. Reading of the Bible Lesson (See the Christian Science Quarterly)

Solo
“Gift of Gratitude,” with words by Violet Ker Seymer and music by Andrew Brewis

Testimonies by Christian Scientists appropriate for the occasion

Hymn 150: “In mercy, in goodness, how great is our King"

The Scientific Statement of Being: From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, (p. 468, line 8): There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth, matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal, matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and Man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
Correlative Scripture (I John 3:1-3): Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and 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. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Benediction
II Cor. 4:15 abundant

abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.


Amen

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