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.
Sermon Text for Sunday: Revelation 13:11-18
Critically Think
- Revelation 11:13-18.
- What is the meaning of the phrases, “two horns like a lamb” and “spoke like a dragon?
- Who is the second beast and the first beast?
- What is the purpose of the second beast?
- What does the second beast order people to do in verse 16? Is anyone exempt from the command?
- What is the purpose of the mark of the beast?
- What ways of God does Satan try to deceitfully counterfeit in Revelation 13?
Prayerfully Meditate
- What ways does Satan deceive today in attempt to appear like God? Consider the ways he has deceived you with temptation and sin?
- What are the lies that Satan sells to the world around you?
- What does this passage teach about the importance of remaining faithful to God in the face of deception and persecution?
- How can you guard yourself against deceptive teachings? (Read 1 John 4:1-4)
- What steps can believers take to live righteously in a world that increasingly opposes godly values? (Read Eph. 6:10-18)
Intentionally Act
- Is there anything you can do to prepare yourself to stand against greater persecution in the future? (Read Deut. 13:1-4)
- How can a church guard against false teaching and prepare its members for trials and tribulations?
- Remind yourself that God is sovereign and always in control no matter what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears. Seek out a passage of scripture that speaks to sovereignty of God to memorize this week.
- How are you protecting those around you (children, family, friends, close church members) from the deceitfulness of sin?
- Click the links below to find the lyrics and recordings of the songs planned for our gathering this Sunday; practice the songs, study the lyrics and sing together.
- 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; Mark Krystyniak: elder prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
Morning Gathering
- How Vast the Love (sheetmusic)
- His Mercy Is More (sheetmusic)
- Oh the Deep, Deep Love (sheetmusic)
- When We See Your Face (sheetmusic)
- How Firm a Foundation (sheetmusic)
Evening Gathering
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - March 23, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church