Preparing for Worship
 
April 20, 2025
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WHAT TO PRAY THIS WEEK
Speaker: Patrick Belshe

Pray for those who will lead in worship:
Garold Syring-the Worship Ministry team
Patrick Belshe
Erin Toole
Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in our corporate gatherings, leading us to exalt Jesus Christ.
Pray that CCC will grow in Christ-exalting, Kingdom advancing ministry in 2025.
Pray that God will move on us to be more evangelistic and, through our obedience in sharing the Gospel, will save many.
Pray that we will become a house of prayer.
Pray that we will pursue lost people as Jesus did (Luke 19:10)
 
This Sunday Patrick will be using John 20:1-10 as his text for his sermon entitled “Facing the New Day”.
 
20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
 
 
VENITE-AND SO LET US COME!
 
The artistic, well balanced, Spirit-led corporate hour does not fall packaged from the sky: it requires planning and rehearsal.

SONGS OF WORSHIP
This Sunday's Music As we prepare for corporate worship, meditate on the lyrics from some of our songs of worship. Listen to them below.

 Pre-worship
‘What He’s Done’
‘His Glory and My Good’
‘In Christ Alone’
‘Because He Lives’
Listen to the songs below.

What He’s Done
See, on the hill of Calvary, my Savior bled for me,
My Jesus set me free.
And look at the wounds that give me life.
Once flowing from His side, no greater sacrifice.
 
What He’s done, what He’s done,
All the glory and the honor to the Son.
My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven.
I praise God for what He’s done.
 
Sing for the freedom He has won.
Even death is dead and done.
His life has overcome
Speak, say the Name above all names,
Over every broken place.
He has risen from the grave.
 
What He’s done, what He’s done,
All the glory and the honor to the Son.
My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven.
I praise God for what He’s done.
Now on a throne of majesty,
The Father’s will complete,
He reigns in victory.
Sing hallelujah to the King.
He is worthy to receive all the worship we can bring.
What He’s done, what He’s done,
All the glory and the honor to the Son.
My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven.
I praise God for what He’s done.
What He’s done, what He’s done,
All the glory and the honor to the Son.
My sins are forgiven, my future is heaven.
I praise God for what He’s done.
I praise God for what He’s done.
“What He’s Done” Words and music by TOSHA COBBS LEONARD, KRISTIAN STANFILL, ANNA GOLDEN  and  JACOB SOOTER © Copyright 2022 Meadowgreen Music Company (ASCAP) worshiptogether.com Songs (ASCAP) sixsteps Music (ASCAP) TeeLee Records Songs (BMI) KPS 1.0 (ASCAP) Capitol CMG Paragon (BMI) Tosha Cobbs Music Group (ASCAP)(admin. at EssentilaMusicPublishing.com)  All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI License # 7189257

His Glory And My Good Lyrics

I have seen my Father's glory
Revealed in Jesus Christ
And the more that I behold Him
The more He satisfies
When I gaze upon His beauty
When I see Him as I should
Then my eyes are lifted upward
For His glory and my good

There is hope in every trial
For I can trust the Lord
He will turn my heart towards Him
And help me bear the thorn
So in faith I follow Jesus
On the road not understood
For I know that He is working
For His glory and my good

To our God be the glory
To our God be praise
He alone, the name above all names
I will boast ever only in the Lord my God
For I know His glory is my good

See the open arms of Jesus
Upon the cross that day
What they understood as weakness
Deserves my every praise
For the charge that was against me
It was nailed into the wood
Yes I know that He has saved me
For His glory and my good

To our God be the glory
To our God be praise
He alone, the name above all names
I will boast ever only in the Lord my God
For I know His glory is my good

Would I gladly be made nothing
That Christ would be made more
Would I seek the only kingdom
That far outweighs them all
I will stand before my Father
Where the faithful saints have stood
And with joy my heart shall praise Him
For His glory and my good
And with joy my heart shall praise Him
For His glory and my good

To our God be the glory
To our God be praise
He alone, the name above all names
I will boast ever only in the Lord my God
For I know His glory is my good

To our God be the glory
To our God be praise
He alone, the name above all names
I will boast ever only in the Lord my God
For I know His glory is my good
Yes I know His glory is my good
Words and Music by BEN FIELDING, JONNY ROBINSON and RICH THOMPSON © Copyright 2024 City & Vine Music Publishing International (BMI) (admin in the US and Canada at CapitolCMGPublishing.com)/ CityAlight Music (APR.A) (admin. at IntegratedRights.com). All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI

In Christ Alone (My Hope Is Found)In Christ alone my hope is found; He is my light, my strength, my song;
This Cornerstone, this solid ground, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease;
My comforter, my All in all; Here in the love of Christ I stand.
 
In Christ alone who took on flesh; Fullness of God in helpless babe. This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save; ‘til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied; For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
 
There in the ground His body lay; Light of the world by darkness slain.
Then bursting forth in glorious day. Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me;
For I am His and He is mine, Bought with the precious blood of Christ!
 
No guilt in life, no fear in death; This is the power of Christ in me.
From life’s first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand; ‘Til He returns or calls me home.
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand!
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand!
 
“In Christ Alone (My Hope Is Found” Words and music by KIETH GETTY and STUART TOWNSEND © Copyright 2002 Thankyou Music (PRS))(all admin. at EMICMG Publishing excluding Europe which is admin. by kngswaysongs.com). All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI License # 2473598
 
Because He LivesVerse 1           God sent His Son, they called Him Jesus;
He came to love, heal and forgive.
He bled and died to buy my pardon;
Na empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives.
Chorus
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow;
Because He lives all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living just because He lives.
 
Verse 2
How sweet to hold a newborn baby
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance,
This child can face uncertain days because He lives.
 
Verse 3
And then one day I’ll cross the river;
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain;
And then as death give way to victory.
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know He lives.
 
“Because He Lives” Words and music by WILLIAM J. GAITHER © 1971 William J. Gaither, Inc. All rights controlled by Gaither Copyright Management. All rights reserved. Used by permission. CCLI License # 2473598