Dear Brothers and Sisters,

On Sunday, we will be studying Ezra 1:1-5, where we see how God rules every heart for HIs own Glory. This is always the way out of bondage – The Lord moves hearts…

On Wed night we will be holding prayer at the Barn, but we will spend an extended time of singing together, and a shorter time of prayer… A time of thanksgiving.

Thursday Night Men’s Meeting – Dec 15, 7:00 – Men’s Meeting for all men in the church (NOT Members only). We are going to address issues of purity and would like to ask all men to prioritize this meeting.

The songs we will be singing on Sunday are:

• Doxology / Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
• How Good It Is to Thank the Lord (also found here: http://opc.org/hymn.html?hymn_id=290
• All Creatures of Our God and King
• Speak, O Lord
• Like a River Glorious

Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Come, ye thankful people, come,

Raise the song of harvest home:

All is safely gathered in,

Ere the winter storms begin;

God, our Maker, doth provide

For our wants to be supplied:

Come to God’s own temple, come,

Raise the song of harvest home.

All the world is God’s own field,

Fruit unto his praise to yield;

Wheat and tares together sown,

Unto joy or sorrow grown:

First the blade, and then the ear,

Then the full corn shall appear:

Lord of harvest, grant that we

Wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Lord our God shall come,

And shall take his harvest home;

From his field shall in that day

All offences purge away;

Give his angels charge at last

In the fire the tares to cast,

But the fruitful ears to store

In his garner evermore.

Even so, Lord, quickly come

To thy final harvest home;

Gather thou thy people in,

Free from sorrow, free from sin;

There for ever purified,

In thy presence to abide:

Come, with all thine angels, come,

Raise the glorious harvest home.

How Good It Is to Thank the Lord

How good it is to thank the Lord,

And praise to thee, Most High, accord,

To show thy love with morning light,

And tell thy faithfulness each night;

Yea, good it is thy praise to sing,

And all our sweetest music bring.

O Lord, with joy my heart expands

Before the wonders of thy hands;

Great works, Jehovah, thou hast wrought,

Exceeding deep thine ev’ry thought;

A foolish man knows not their worth,

Nor he whose mind is of the earth.

When as the grass the wicked grow,

When sinners flourish here below,

Then is there endless ruin nigh,

But thou, O Lord, art throned on high;

Thy foes shall fall before thy might,

The wicked shall be put to flight.

The righteous man shall flourish well,

And in the house of God shall dwell;

He shall be like a goodly tree,

And all his life shall fruitful be;

For righteous is the Lord and just,

He is my Rock, in him I trust.

All Creatures of Our God and King

All creatures of our God and King

Lift up your voice and with us sing

Alleluia!  Alleluia!

Thou burning sun with golden beam

Thou silver moon with softer gleam

O praise Him!  O praise Him!

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

And all ye men of tender heart

Forgiving others, take your part

O sing ye!  Alleluia!

Ye who long pain and sorrow bear

Praise God and on Him cast your care

O praise Him!  O praise Him!

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Let all things their Creator bless

And worship Him in humbleness

O praise Him!  Alleluia!

Praise, praise the Father, praise the Son

And praise the Spirit, Three in One

O praise Him!  O praise Him!

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Speak, O Lord

Speak, O Lord, as we come to You

To receive the food of Your Holy Word.

Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;

Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,

That the light of Christ might be seen today

In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.

Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us 

All Your purposes for Your glory.

Teach us, Lord, full obedience,

Holy reverence, true humility;

Test our thoughts and our attitudes

In the radiance of Your purity.

Cause our faith to rise; cause our eyes to see

Your majestic love and authority.

Words of pow’r that can never fail –

Let their truth prevail over unbelief.

Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds;

Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us –

Truths unchanged from the dawn of time

That will echo down through eternity.

And by grace we’ll stand on Your promises,

And by faith we’ll walk as You walk with us.

Speak, O Lord, till Your church is built

And the earth is filled with Your glory.

Like a River Glorious

Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace,

Over all victorious in its bright increase;

Perfect, yet it floweth fuller ev’ry day,

Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.

   Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest,

   Finding, as He promised,

   Perfect peace and rest.

Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand,

Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;

Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,

Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there.

Ev’ry joy or trial falleth from above,

Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love.

We may trust Him fully all for us to do;

They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.