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.
This Sunday, Lance Quinn, Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of The Expositors Seminary and member of the Pastoral Team at Grace Immanuel Bible Church in Jupiter, Florida, will be preaching as a part of our Morning Gathering.
Lance has been in continuous vocational ministry for over 35 years, including 25 years as Senior Pastor of two churches in both Arkansas and California. He is also a board member and fellow of ACBC (Association of Certified Biblical Counselors).
Additionally, he has written or contributed to several books, including The Five Points of Calvinism: Defined, Defended and Documented and God the Preacher and Apologist. He and his late wife, Beth, have eight adult children and a growing number of grandchildren.
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
- What does it mean to be conformed to the world? What does it mean to not be conformed to this world? Write out a list of ways you are living conformed to the world and confess those before the Lord in prayer.
- How can you seek to renew your mind this week? What is one area of wrong thinking or belief that you can address with biblical truth?
- Consider the ways your life may or may not be living sacrificially for God. What would it look like for you to live as a living sacrifice for God?
- Pray for the sanctification of yourself, family, and church in light of this passage.
- 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; Rob Stouffer: Elders' prayer & scripture reading; Lance Quinn: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
Morning Gathering
- Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (sheetmusic)
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness (sheetmusic)
- Speak, O Lord (sheetmusic)
- Behold the Lamb (sheetmusic)
- Be Thou My Vision (sheetmusic)
Evening Gathering
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - February 26, 2023 by Summit Woods Baptist Church on Scribd