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.
Please see the Preparing for the Sermon post for suggestions in thinking more critically through the passage, meditating more intently on the text, and prayerfully seeking wisdom to deepen your understanding of the passage to be preached this Sunday.
Intentionally Act
- Read 1 Thessalonians 2:13
- Summarize the main idea of this verse in one sentence.
- What can you do to develop the humble act of thankfulness in your life this week?
- Consider how you receive the preaching of God’s word on Sunday. How should this impact you if you were to receive it as the word of God and not the word of men?
- What should change about how you listen to sermons or do devotions if you were to believe and live as though you were receiving the very word of God?
- Pray through the IOUS model of prayer before reading God’s word this week and before church on Sunday.
- Incline my heart to your testimonies (Psalm 119:36).
- Open my eyes to see wonderful things (Psalm 119:18).
- Unite my heart to fear your name (Psalm 86:11).
- Satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love (Psalm 90:14).
- 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: Dawson Bryant: music; Brett Harris: Elders' prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
Morning Gathering
- Rejoice, the Lord Is King (sheetmusic)
- This Is Our God (sheetmusic)
- Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor (sheetmusic)
- Speak, O Lord (sheetmusic)
- How Firm a Foundation (sheetmusic)
Evening Gathering
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - April 24, 2022 by Summit Woods Baptist Church on Scribd