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This article was last updated October 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

Our houses of worship often host special services. My local church has one the Sunday night before the Thanksgiving holiday. Most churches that I know will celebrate this incredible theme, on point with millions together in our nation. We truly are a blessed nation and blessed to live here in America! It is a special opportunity to pray and sing this month with Thanksgiving on our lips and in our hearts.<\/p>\n

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30 Thanksgiving Worship Songs For Your Thanksgiving Worship Service<\/h2>\n

Thanksgiving tradition isn’t only about the turkey as we all know. Just to remind us, Our truly American Thanksgiving holiday is traced to 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and local Native American tribe Wampanoga partook together in a feast for autumn. Each colony and state celebrated this tradition for a couple hundred years before Civil War president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that we celebrate a day of thanks in November. Part of our practice as a secular nation is surely inspired by our tradition as Christians to offer thanks. Thanksgiving is an act of worship as central as one can find. We are grateful for a God who has met us where we are in Christ, saving us from sin and death in the Cross. We are grateful for the fact that blessings truly come from God, our creator. Living in gratitude is such a virtue of not only worship but of practicality. When we live with thanksgiving as our attitude we see everything differently.<\/p>\n

Here at Sharefaith, we thought it would be great to offer you 30 Thanksgiving Worship Songs\u00a0songs you could use in a Thanksgiving worship service. The opportunity in sharing these Thanksgiving worship songs is that you can also use these for your personal devotional times this month and beyond. It is also nice to know where the songs come from and who wrote them, so we included that information as well as links to music. The Thanksgiving worship songs are listed in three categories\u2013hymns, contemporary, and modern. Hymns are traditional songs many know\u00a0of, but maybe some of you never heard of. The poetry of these alone are worth the read of the lyrics but some of these have also been put to modern or contemporary settings. Contemporary songs are choruses over the last 20 or so years that have been sung in church. Modern songs denote songs that are new to the scene. Here are the top 30 Thanksgiving Worship Songs:<\/p>\n

Hymns \u00a0(8)<\/b><\/h2>\n

For the Beauty of the Earth<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n

Lyrics by Folliot Sanford Pierpoint (1864)<\/p>\n

Music by Conrad Rocker (1838)<\/p>\n

Mr. Pierpoint originally meant this as a song for the Eucharist (Communion) where Christ\u2019s sacrifice was highlighted. This is appropriate as the word \u201cEucharist\u201d means thanksgiving as the song later become known for. Sometimes it works best to keep some tradition in your services and this song is a classic that many who don\u2019t even attend church may have heard in movie soundtracks.<\/p>\n

Now We Thank We All Our God<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n

Lyrics\/Music by Martin Rinkart (1636)<\/p>\n

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