Prepare your heart for our Sunday Morning Gathering by looking through these suggestions that will assist you in making the most of our time together.

You will find tangible suggestions for putting scripture to action in your personal life and in our corporate body, links to the songs we will sing, and lyrics for you to prepare for our corporate singing.

Critically Think

• Read Exodus 25.
• According to vs. 2 was the contribution to be voluntary or mandatory?
• Where did the children of Israel get the materials that God called for in the building of the tabernacle?
• According to vs. 8 what was the purpose for which the sanctuary was to be constructed?
• Where did the plan for the layout and construction of the tabernacle come from?
• What three items are described in chapter 25 that will be part of the furnishing of the tabernacle?
• What is to go on the top of the ark and what is to go inside the ark? (vs. 21)
• What will God do from the mercy seat? (vs. 22)
• What be the purpose of the table that is described in vs. 23-30?
• Describe the features of the lampstand detailed in vs. 31-40.

Prayerfully Meditate

• What is the meaning of the word tabernacle?
• What does the construction of the tabernacle represent?
• What does the tabernacle point to in the future?
• Why is such detail put into the description of the construction of the tabernacle?
• What is the central focus of the tabernacle?

Intentionally Act

• The construction of the tabernacle is all about a right approach to God. How can you prepare your heart to rightly approach God in the Sunday morning gathering this week? 
• The words of God were stored with reverence inside the Ark of the Testimony. Do you have a reverence for the word of God? How could someone tell?
• In Exodus 25 God dwelt among His people by manifesting his presence in the tabernacle. Now God dwells inside His people by the Holy Spirit. What implications does this truth have for the way we conduct ourselves individually and corporately?
• Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; learn the songs, study the lyrics and sing them with others.
• Pray for those leading our corporate gathering this week and for the Holy Spirit’s work as the Word of God is further explained and applied: Joel Conrad: music; Sam Karl: elder prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.

Songs for Sunday

Morning Gathering

• Only a Holy God (sheet music)
• The Grandeur of God (sheetmusic)
• Yet Not I, But Through Christ in Me (sheetmusic)
• Speak, O Lord (sheetmusic)
• Be Thou My Vision (sheetmusic)

Lyrics

Lyrics Morning Gathering - August 9, 2026 by Summit Woods Baptist Church