Download: Readings and Song Lyrics for August 24, 2025
Pre-service Song
Tell The Story (Psalm 8)
O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful Your name
in all the earth, Your glory on display.
The works of your hands
show us who You are.
O, all around a vision of Your love,
a vision of Your love.
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
O Lord, our Lord,
You light up our world.
The sun, moon and stars declare who You are,
declare who you are.
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
Who am I, unworthy one,
that You would give Your only son?
Who are You to care for me?
Amazing love, how can it be? (Repeat)
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
By Shane Barnard and Davy Flowers
© 2022 Davisha Flowers; More Songs From Wellhouse; Songs From Wellhouse
Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
Psalm 147:1-5, 10-12 (ESV)
Praise the LORD!
For it is good to sing praises to our God;
for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.
The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars;
he gives to all of them their names.
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
his understanding is beyond measure.
His delight is not in the strength of the horse,
nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who hope in his steadfast love.
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
Our Sung Call to Worship
Indescribable
From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea,
Creation’s revealing Your majesty.
From the colors of Fall to the fragrance of Spring,
Every creature unique in the song that it sings.
All exclaiming:
Indescribable, uncontainable;
You placed the stars in the sky,
and You know them by name.
You are amazing God;
All powerful, untamable;
Awestruck, we fall to our knees
as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing, God.
Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go,
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow?
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light,
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night?
None can fathom.
Indescribable, uncontainable;
You placed the stars in the sky,
and You know them by name.
You are amazing God;
All powerful, untamable;
Awestruck, we fall to our knees
as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing, God.
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky,
and You know them by name.
You are amazing, God;
Incomparable, unchangeable;
You see the depths of my heart
and You love me the same.
You are amazing God.
You see the depths of my heart
and You love me the same.
You are amazing God.
By Laura Story and Jesse Reeves
© 2004 Laura Stories; sixsteps Music; worshiptogether.com songs
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
Psalm 25:6-8, 11, 16-18 (ESV)
Remember your mercy, O LORD,
and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
For your name’s sake, O LORD,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
bring me out of my distresses.
Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.
Time of silent confession.
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
Ephesians 2:4-10 (ESV)
Remember the Gospel!
God, who is rich in mercy,
because of his great love that he had for us,
made us alive with Christ
even though we were dead in trespasses.
You are saved by grace!
He also raised us up with him and seated us with him
in the heavens in Christ Jesus,
so that in the coming ages he might display
the immeasurable riches of his grace
through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
For you are saved by grace through faith,
and this is not from yourselves;
it is God’s gift — not from works,
so that no one can boast.
For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
Before the Throne of God Above
Before the throne of God above,
I have a strong and perfect plea
A great High Priest whose name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.
My name is graven on His hands.
My name is written on His heart.
I know that while in heav’n He stands,
No tongue can bid me thence depart,
No tongue can bid me thence depart.
When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look and see Him there,
Who made an end to all my sin.
Because the sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free.
For God, the Just, is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me,
To look on Him and pardon me.
Behold Him there, the risen Lamb!
My perfect, spotless righteousness.
The great unchangeable I AM,
The King of Glory and of Grace.
One with Himself, I cannot die.
My soul is purchased by His blood.
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ, my Savior and my God,
With Christ, my Savior and my God.
One with Himself, I cannot die.
My soul is purchased by His blood.
My life is hid with Christ on high,
With Christ, my Savior and my God,
With Christ, my Savior and my God.
By Charitie Lees Bancroft and Vicki Cook
© 1997 Sovereign Grace Worship
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 8 (ESV)
1O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your
foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the
heavenly beings and crowned him with glory
and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of
your hands; you have put all things under his
feet,
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the
field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
This is the word of the Lord.
The grass withers and the flower falls
but the word of the Lord endures forever.
Sermon
Psalm 8 (ESV) -How Majestic is Your Name! – 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?
Only a Holy God (Distribution Song)
Who else commands all the hosts of heaven?
Who else could make ev’ry king bow down?
Who else can whisper and darkness trembles?
Only a Holy God.
What other beauty demands such praises?
What other splendor outshines the sun?
What other majesty rules with justice?
Only a Holy God.
Come and behold Him, the One and the Only.
Cry out, sing holy, forever a Holy God.
Come and worship the Holy God.
What other glory consumes like fire?
What other power can raise the dead?
What other name remains undefeated?
Only a Holy God.
Come and behold Him, the One and the Only.
Cry out, sing holy, forever a Holy God.
Come and worship the Holy God.
Who else could rescue me from my failing?
Who else would offer His only Son?
Who else invites me to call Him Father?
Only a Holy God. Only my Holy God.
Come and behold Him, the One and the Only.
Cry out, sing holy, forever a Holy God.
Come and worship the Holy God.
Come and behold Him, the One and the Only.
Cry out, sing holy, forever a Holy God.
Come and worship the Holy God.
By Michael Farren, Jonny Ronson, Dustin Smith and Rich Thompson
© 2016 CityAlight Music; Farren Love And War Publishing; Integrity’s Alleluia! Music; Integrity’s Praise! Music
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
Tell The Story (Psalm 8)
O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful Your name
in all the earth, Your glory on display.
The works of your hands
show us who You are.
O, all around a vision of Your love,
a vision of Your love.
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
O Lord, our Lord,
You light up our world.
The sun, moon and stars declare who You are,
declare who you are.
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
Who am I, unworthy one,
that You would give Your only son?
Who are You to care for me?
Amazing love, how can it be? (Repeat)
Lift up your voice and sing His praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who made it all, You made it all.
With every breath we shout Your praises.
With all creation tell the story of the One
Who loves us, You love us, You love us.
By Shane Barnard and Davy Flowers
© 2022 Davisha Flowers; More Songs From Wellhouse; Songs From Wellhouse
Blessing
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (ESV)
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God
our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort
and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts
and establish them in every good work and word.
Amen.
Scripture text for next Sunday: Psalm 9