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 Isaiah 11:1-9 through three times in succession. Then close your Bible and attempt to list the events in sequence and in detail as best as you can from memory. Go back and check. What did you miss? What did you get right? What details stood out to you as primary and noteworthy?
- Should Isaiah 11:1-9 be understood literally or figuratively? Why?
- How does the context and flow of Isaiah 11:1-9 compare to Revelation 20:1-6?
- Compare Isaiah 11:1-9 and Revelation 20:1-6. What are shared themes in both? What is different?
- Isaiah 11:9 states that the earth will be “full of the knowledge of the LORD”. How does this global extent of the knowledge of God fit with Revelation 20:4–6, which emphasizes the reign of the resurrected saints?
Prayerfully Meditate
- Summarize the main idea of Isaiah 11:1-9 in 21 words or less.
- Isaiah 11:4 proclaims that “He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked”. How is this prophecy echoed/fulfilled in the context of the Book of Revelation?
- Isaiah 11 describes a harmonious order extending throughout creation, and justice for the poor and afflicted, while Revelation 20 focuses on the rule of Christ and that of his saints over the nations. What do these emphases tell us about Christ’s reign?
- Compare Isaiah 11:1 and Revelation 20:4-6. How do both texts speak to the reign of Christ?
- Why is it important that the reality of, and details regarding the Millennium, are known to us?
Intentionally Act
- How should Isaiah 11:1-9 reassure us?
- In what ways should this passage cause us to act?
- In what ways should this passage push us to change the posture of our attitudes and emotions?
- How should Isaiah 11:1-9 impact our private devotion to God? Our corporate worship? Our evangelism?
- 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
- Glory Be to God (sheetmusic)
- Rejoice (sheetmusic)
- The Son of God Came Down (sheetmusic)
- How Low Was Our Redeemer Brought (sheetmusic)
- Christus Victor (sheetmusic)
Evening Gathering
Lyrics
Lyrics Morning Gathering - December 14, 2025 by Summit Woods Baptist Church