THANKSGIVING DAY �We Praise God for Sustaining Life in and through His Word

Lam. 3:22-25, 1Tim. 2:1-4, Luke 17:11-19, Psalm 67� � �

Exegesis of the LectionaryStudying, expounding, and interpreting the Bible readings through the Church Year

Memorization Verses:

Lamentations 3:22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 1 Tim 2:1 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people.Luke 17:18-19 Has no one returned to

give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.Psalm 67:5-6  May the peoples praise you, God;  may all the peoples praise you. The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.

Lincoln’s Proclamation of a National Holiday

 In the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has

prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care

all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

 Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October, 1863.

Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.

Thanksgivings

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•Do we have the same reasons as Lincoln for taking the holiday today?

•Write a page about what Thanksgiving means to you

Or

•Make your list of Thanksgivings.

Use your prayer notes.

Use a verse from the bible to reflect on.

Send up some Thanksgiving.

P raiseR epentanceA ppreciationY ouE veryoneR esolve

Prayer Activity

Each petition ends: P …we give You thanks, C and bless Your holy name.1: Let us cry aloud our thanks to the all-blessed Trinity: For the tender love You show Your whole creation, we give You thanks…and bless Your holy name.2: For the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the homes in which we live….3: For our families, for husbands and wives, and especially children with their joy and their trust, for grandparents and grandchildren, for aunts and uncles…4: For the fields and their harvest, for farmers and their labors, for the good earth and all its bounty…5: For our nation and all its people, and for the freedoms we enjoy, especially for the freedom to worship You in peace…6: For the sufferings that come upon us and for the reminder they bring of the one thing needful…7: Above all for the incarnation of our Lord, for His suffering and death, for His glorious resurrection and ascension and for the coming of the Holy Spirit, the

Comforter…8: For the holy Church, for the divine waters of Baptism, for the comfort of Holy Absolution, and for the life-giving Sacrament of the Altar…9: For the Sacred Scriptures, for the holy Law that shows us our sin, and for the holy Gospel that reveals the righteousness of Christ as Your gift to us…?: For [Insert other thanksgivings as needed]…P: For these and all Your mercies, mercies beyond number and measure, for all of which it is our joy to stand before You and give You thanks…and bless your holy name.A: You are indeed blessed and holy and worthy of all honor and praise, O Father Almighty, O only-begotten Son, O Spirit of Holiness. To You alone do we give all glory now and ever and unto the ages of ages! Amen!

LSB 785

1 We praise you, O God, our Redeemer, Creator; In grateful devotion our tribute we bring. We lay it before You, we kneel and adore You; We bless Your holy name, glad praises we sing. 

2 We worship You, God of our fathers, we bless You; Through trial and tempest our guide You have been. When perils o'ertake us, You will not forsake us. And with Your help, O Lord, our struggles we win. 

3 With voices united our praises we offerAnd gladly our songs of thanksgiving we raise. With You, Lord, beside us, Your strong arm will guide us.To You, our great Redeemer, forever be praise! 

Learning the Hebrew Alphabethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrWEPFcyQXMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzjHjXe-2XU

Meet w/teams3-5 min per box

What are the major points of your text? How does your topic fit the pericope

theme? How does it connect to the other texts?

How is it unique?

Group Time We Praise God for Sustaining Life in and through His Word

Share Time:

How is God “my portion” when I am despised, in a foreign land or poor? Use your text as a defense for your answer.

What prayer language is in your text concerning giving thanks? For what are we to pray and why? Connect to your personal life.

What are some of the goals of Christian living in the world according to your verses? How are they fulfilled in Christ?

LSB 789

Praise and thanksgiving, Father, We offer for all things living, created good; Harvest of sown field, fruits of the orchard, Hay from the mown fields, blossom and wood.

Bless, Lord, the labor we bring to serve youThat with our neighbor we may be fed.Sowing or tilling, we would work with You, Harvesting, milling for daily bread.

Father, providing food for your children, By your wise guiding teach us to share,One with another, so that rejoicing,With us all others may know your care. Amen.

Sing it!

'Tis the gift to be simple,'tis the gift to be free,'tis the gift to come downwhere we ought to be,and when we find ourselves in the place just right,'twill be in the valley of love and delight.When true simplicity is gainedto bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed,to turn, turn, will be our delighttill by turning, turning we come round right. 

Sing it!

Meet in two weeks 11/30 for

First S. in Advent (Dec. 2)Jer. 33:14-18;Rom. 13:11-14;Matt. 21:1-9;Psalm 24;The Lord Jesus Comes in

Humility to Redeem Us

Next Week…

Jeremiah 33:14-18 The LORD's Eternal Covenant with David

14 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 15 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteousBranch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’

17 “For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 18 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”

Romans 13:11-1411 Besides this you know the time, that the

hour has come for youto wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Matthew 21:1-9 The Triumphal Entry

21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,‘Behold, your king is coming to you,    humble, and mounted on a donkey,    on a colt,[a] the foal of a beast of burden.’”

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Psalm 24 The King of Glory

24 The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof,[a]

    the world and those who dwell therein,2 for he has founded it upon the seas

    and established it upon the rivers.3 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?

    And who shall stand in his holy place?4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart,    who does not lift up his soul to what is false    and does not swear deceitfully.5 He will receive blessing from the LORD    and righteousness from the God of his salvation.6 Such is the generation of those who seek him,    who seek the face of the God of Jacob.[

b] Selah7 Lift up your heads, O gates!

    And be lifted up, O ancient doors,    that the King of glory may come in.8 Who is this King of glory?    The LORD, strong and mighty,    the LORD, mighty in battle!9 Lift up your heads, O gates!    And lift them up, O ancient doors,    that the King of glory may come in.10 Who is this King of glory?    The LORD of hosts,    he is the King of glory! Selah