Download: Readings and Song Lyrics for August 10, 2025
Pre-service Song
The Night Song
In the darkness God will keep me.
He will stay and never sleep.
In the darkness, God is brighter.
Though the night is long and deep.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
In the shadows, You are with me.
And you know my every fear.
In the shadows, none can harm me.
For the mighty King is here.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
So I find my rest in Jesus.
He who came to rescue me.
Jesus saved me from the darkness,
I will rise to life with him.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
By Jonny Robinson, Rich Thompson, & Colin Buchanan
© 2021 CityAlight Music; Wanaaring Road Music
Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
Isaiah 55:1-3, 6-7 (ESV)
Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;
and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money
for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD,
that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Our Sung Call to Worship
Christ Our Hope in Life and Death
What is our hope in life and death?
Christ alone, Christ alone.
What is our only confidence?
That our souls to him belong.
Who holds our days within his hand?
What comes, apart from his command?
And what will keep us to the end?
The love of Christ, in which we stand.
Chorus
O sing hallelujah!
Our hope springs eternal;
O sing hallelujah!
Now and ever we confess
Christ our hope in life and death.
What truth can calm the troubled soul?
God is good, God is good.
Where is his grace and goodness known?
In our great Redeemer’s blood.
Who holds our faith when fears arise?
Who stands above the stormy trial?
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh
Unto the shore, the rock of Christ? (Chorus)
Unto the grave, what will we sing?
“Christ, he lives! Christ, he lives!”
And what reward will heaven bring?
Everlasting life with him.
There we will rise to meet the Lord,
Then sin and death will be destroyed,
And we will feast in endless joy,
When Christ is ours forevermore. (Chorus)
By Keith Getty, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Papa, Matt Boswell, and Matthew Merker
© 2020 Getty Music Hymns and Songs; Getty Music Publishing; Jordan Kauflin Music; Love Your Enemies Publishing; Matthew Merker Music; Messenger Hymns
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
Isaiah 53:1-6 (ESV)
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at this,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Time of silent confession.
Our Sung Confession
“Man of Sorrows” What a Name
“Man of sorrows!” what a name
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood,
Sealed my pardon with His blood;
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
Spotless Lamb of God was He;
Full atonement can it be?
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Lifted up was He to die,
“It is finished,” was His cry;
Now in heav’n exalted high,
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring,
Then anew this song we’ll sing,
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
By Philip P. Bliss
©Public Domain
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
Isaiah 53:1-6 (ESV)
Remember the Gospel!
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all,
how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect?
It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn?
Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—
who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the
love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
Jesus What a Friend for Sinners
Jesus! What a Friend for sinners!
Jesus! Lover of my soul;
Friends may fail me, foes assail me,
He, my Savior, makes me whole.
Chorus
Hallelujah! What a Savior!
Hallelujah! What a Friend!
Saving, helping, keeping, loving,
He is with me to the end.
Jesus! What a strength in weakness!
Let me hide myself in Him.
Tempted, tried, and sometimes failing,
He, my strength, my vict’ry wins. (Chorus)
Jesus! What a help in sorrow!
While the billows o’er me roll.
Even when my heart is breaking,
He, my comfort, helps my soul. (Chorus)
Jesus, what a guide and keeper!
While the tempest still is high,
Storms about me, night o’er takes me,
He, my pilot, hears my cry. (Chorus)
Jesus! I do now receive Him,
More than all in Him I find.
He hath granted me forgiveness
I am His, and He is mine. (Chorus)
Words by John Wilbur Chapman, Music by Rowland Hugh Pritchard
©Public Domain
Thanksgiving and Petition
We Give Thanks in Prayer and Offer Petitions to God
We express our gratitude to God our Father for Christ’s work on the cross for us and bring our requests before him. In bringing our requests, we confess that we believe God truly is a good father, who cares about our needs and gives us what he knows is best.
We Give Thanks by Giving
We give financial offerings to support the work of the church because of our gratitude to God. By giving we confess we are trusting in God’s provision for us as well.
You may give electronically at gabcames.org/giving/ or place your offering in the boxes at the back of the sanctuary or send a check in the mail.
Scripture Reading
Psalm 6 (ESV)
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
3 My soul also is greatly troubled.
But you, O Lord—how long?
4 Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?
6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows weak because of all my foes.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my plea;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
This is the word of the Lord.
The grass withers and the flower falls
but the word of the Lord endures forever.
Sermon
Psalm 6 – Songs for Sojourners: From Anguish to Assurance – Pastor Michael Felkins
Sermon Discipleship Questions
1. What encouraged you?
2. What convicted you?
3. Is there anything in your life that needs to change?
Just As I Am (Distribution Song)
Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee Whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
I come broken to be mended, I come wounded to be healed.
I come desp’rate to be rescued, I come empty to be filled.
I come guilty to be pardoned by the blood of Christ the Lamb.
And I’m welcomed with open arms, praise God, just as I am.
Just as I am, I would be lost,
But mercy and grace my freedom bought.
And now to glory in Your cross,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
I come broken to be mended, I come wounded to be healed.
I come desp’rate to be rescued, I come empty to be filled.
I come guilty to be pardoned by the blood of Christ the Lamb.
And I’m welcomed with open arms, praise God, just as I am.
I come broken to be mended, I come wounded to be healed.
I come desp’rate to be rescued, I come empty to be filled.
I come guilty to be pardoned by the blood of Christ the Lamb.
And I’m welcomed with open arms, praise God, just as I am.
Praise God just as I am.
Words By Charlotte Elliott, Travis Cottrell, Sue C. Smith and David Moffitt, Music by William Bradbury, Travis Cottrell, Sue C. Smith and David Moffitt
© 2009 CCTB Music; First Hand Revelation Music; Universal Music – Brentwood Benson Publishing
Celebration of the Lord’s Supper
Sending
Having heard and confessed the Gospel, we are sent into the world on mission in Christ, which we express in both song and spoken word.
Sending Song
The Night Song
In the darkness God will keep me.
He will stay and never sleep.
In the darkness, God is brighter.
Though the night is long and deep.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
In the shadows, You are with me.
And you know my every fear.
In the shadows, none can harm me.
For the mighty King is here.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
So I find my rest in Jesus.
He who came to rescue me.
Jesus saved me from the darkness,
I will rise to life with him.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
All this day Your hand has held me.
God of Heaven, by my side.
Thank you, Father, for Your goodness.
You will hold me through the night.
By Jonny Robinson, Rich Thompson, & Colin Buchanan
© 2021 CityAlight Music; Wanaaring Road Music
Blessing
Numbers 6:24-26 (ESV)
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace.
Amen.
Scripture text for next Sunday: Psalm 7