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 Revelation 20:11-15.
• How is the throne described in this passage and how does it compare/contrast with other thrones we have seen in Revelation? 
• Who is sitting on the throne? Read these other passages in Revelation to shed more light on it. Rev. 4:2-3, 9; 5:1, 7, 13; 6:16; 7:10, 15; 19:4; 21:5.
• Where is the throne located?
• Who is standing before the throne and how are they described?  
• What standard were the dead judged by?
• What are death and Hades? Are they different or synonymous? 
• Are the dead in verse 12 a different group of people than those given up by the sea, death, and Hades in verse 13? 
• What is the second death and is this referenced in other passages?
• Who was thrown into the lake of fire?
• List any repeated words or phrases that are significant?

Prayerfully Meditate

• Compare and contrast the two different scenes given in Revelation 20:4-6 and 20:11-15.
• How is 2 Peter 3:7-12 related to this passage? 
• What light does Daniel 7:9-10 shed on our passage? 
• Using a concordance or blue letter bible, look up the phrase book of life (or similar references). What do other passages of Scripture tell us about this book? 
• Read Is. 59:18, Jer. 25:14, and 2 Cor. 11:15. How do these verses shed light on our passage in Revelation in regards to judgment? 
• What does it mean that death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire? Look up these passages for more insight. 1 Cor. 15:26, 54-55; Isa. 25:8; Hos. 13:14.

Intentionally Act

• What warnings should we take away from this passage?
• In what ways does this passage bring encouragement to the believer and how should this passage impact our evangelism? 
• Consider the deeds of your life in view of the future judgement of Christ. How can you respond and live now concerning this coming judgement? 
• 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: Dawson Bryant: music; Terry Engling: elder prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.

Songs for Sunday

Morning Gathering

• Come and Stand Before Your Maker (sheetmusic)
• The Former Things (sheetmusic)
• O Come, All You Unfaithful (sheetmusic)
• Christus Victor (sheetmusic)
• Jesus, Our Judge and Our Savior (sheetmusic)

Lyrics

Lyrics Morning Gathering - December 7, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church