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 through 2 Thessalonians 2 again, and re-read verses 16 and 17, meditating on the riches in God's Word.
- Dwell on how the Lord loves us in these verses? How do we love others in the same way? Review John 13:34-45
- Pray for our hearts to be encouraged and strengthened through the preaching of the Word, which is able to save our souls, change us into the image of Christ, and bring us into eternity.
- Pray for the body of Christ to be active in encouraging and strengthening one another in word, work, and be known for our love for one another.
- 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; Ben Gardner: Elder candidate's prayer & scripture reading; Bret Capranica: teaching.
Songs for Sunday
- Psalm 150 (Praise the Lord) (sheetmusic)
- Praise to the Lord the Almighty (sheetmusic)
- Direct Our Hearts (sheetmusic)
- Grace Greater Than All Our Sin (sheetmusic)
- Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul (sheetmusic)
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - ... by Summit Woods Baptist Church