Night of Worship: Cries of the Soul

Night of Worship: Cries of the Soul

Have you ever been in a worship service where you just couldn’t bring yourself to sing?

Perhaps, the burdens of life have left you weary and worn, and no matter how loud or how long you cry out to God He doesn’t seem to answer.

Our next Night of Worship: Cries of the Soul (5PM, May 19th) takes us on a journey of biblical lament.

We’ll gather to seek God’s face and bear one another’s burdens through:

• select Scripture readings focusing on biblical lament

• group and pastoral-led prayers to shepherd hurting souls

• vocal special music to minister to hearts in grief

• and congregational singing to encourage one another

We pray this service will be a balm to your soul.

Order of Worship

Welcome & Announcements

Congregation: “Ancient of Days”

Lament: Bringing OUr Complaints

Vocal: “How Long, O Lord, How Long”

Scripture Reading: Psalm 13 (Pastor Ontoy)

Groups Gathered for Prayer

Prayer of Lament: Pastor Ontoy

Congregation: “Day by Day”

Remembering God’s Grace: Meditating on Truth

Responsive Reading: Psalm 77 (Pastor Jones)

Groups Gathered for Prayer

Prayer of Thanksgiving: Pastor Jones

Congregation: “Turn Your Eyes”

Testimonies

Congregation: “You Are Always Good”

Assurance: Trusting God’s Sovereignty

Scripture Reading: Revelation 21:1-7 (Pastor Crockett)

Vocal: “Is He Worthy”

Prayer Groups

Prayer of Trust: Pastor Crockett

Congregation: “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death”

Watch our most recent Night of Worship from April 7, 2024.

How Sweet the Sound

As part of celebrating his 80th birthday, Lance Flower gave an 80-minute piano/organ concert at War Memorial Chapel at Bob Jones University.

Watch “How Sweet the Sound” here.

Table for Five... Thousand!

May 5 our children’s choir presented a musical retelling of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes entitled “Table for Five… Thousand!”

Our children’s choir (K5-5th grade) rehearses each week at 9 AM during the fall and spring.

Last spring they presented “The Runaway,” the story of Jonah. At Christmas they presented “Christmas on the Air” in conjunction with our teen ensemble. They also sang for us on the morning of March 3. This program is the culmination of their spring schedule.

Even children can do great things with God's help. Come support our children and worship the Lord for His great power.

If you would like more information about our children’s choir, let us know!

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing! (University Singers)

O For a Thousand Tongues to SIng!

April 18, 2024

This past Sunday we hosted the University Singers (conductor, Dr. Pattye Casarow & collaborative pianist, Dr. Ken Renfrow)! The auditorium was alive with vibrant congregational singing as we responded to the truth sung, read, prayed, and preached.

O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise!

One special musical highlight of the morning was when our own choir and orchestra joined the Singers to form a mass choir of 180+ musicians to enthusiastically declare God’s glory. If you missed out, you can watch the livestream recording from this past Sunday here.

We’re thankful for God’s blessing on our music ministry, and we pray that whether you serve on the platform or the pew that you would joyfully participate, singing from the overflow of God’s moving in your own heart.

Service Order:

Psalm 98

Congregation: “O For a Thousand Tongues”

Welcome, Announcements, & Prayer: Pastor Crockett

None Like You

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 44

Prayer of Confession: Pastor Flores

Return to Me

Congregation: “Just As I Am (I Come Broken)”

You Alone Are God

Congregation: “Bow the Knee”

Sermon: Responding to Suffering (Mark 15)

Song of Response: “Beneath the Cross of Jesus”

Night of Worship: God of All Grace

Night of Worship: God of All Grace

February 29, 2024

Because of the resurrection, believers have every reason to rejoice! The Sunday after Easter, you’re invited to our Night of Worship (5PM, April 7th).

We’ll gather to exalt the God of all Grace through:

• extended Scripture readings

• a variety of gathered prayers

• vocal and instrumental special music

• and plenty of congregational singing!

Make plans to join us!

Congregational singing is the most important musical component in our gathered worship, and we’re blessed to have opportunities to sing to God and each other.

God of All Grace

Congregation: “Only a Holy God”

Welcome & Announcements

Call to Worship Prayer

God’s Common Grace

Instrumental (Piano quartet): “This Is My Father’s World”

Responsive Reading: Psalm 65:1-13 (Pastor Crockett)

Congregation: “I Sing the Mighty Power of god”

Groups Gathered for Prayer

Prayer of Praise: Pastor Crockett

God’s Redeeming Grace

Responsive Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 (Jalen Ontoy)

Congregation: “Christ Is Sufficient”

Testimony of Grace: Pastor Stuhl

Groups Gathered for Prayer

Prayer of Thanksgiving: Jalen Ontoy

Congregation: “Jesus, Thank You”

Pleading with the God of All Grace

Scripture Reading: Titus 2:11-15 (Pastor Henson)

Personal Confession of Sin

Prayer of Confession & Repentance: Pastor Henson

Congregation: “Grace Greater Than Our Sin”

Congregation: “Wonderful Grace of Jesus”

Trusting the God of All Grace

Vocal (Hibbard & Kruger): “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 5:6-11 (Pastor Huffman)

Congregation: “Give Me Jesus”

Groups Gathered for Prayer

Prayer of Intercession: Pastor Huffman

Song of Response: “My Jesus, Fair”

Watch our most recent Night of Worship from February 4, 2024.

Spring Sacred Recital

Spring Sacred Recital

April 7, 4:00 PM

Morningside is a musical church!

In addition to musical moments in weekly gathered worship and annual special programs, we also host sacred recitals in the fall and spring. Our next sacred recital is on April 7th.

Why does Morningside host sacred recitals?

1. Recitals provide a creative outlet for our MBC musicians.
   
   - We host an annual children’s Christmas recital each December, and we’d love to listen to members of all ages and skill level others too!
   
   - We have a number of professional musicians who serve faithfully in our music ministry. Oftentimes, they are preparing music for their studios or other performance opportunities. Recitals gives us a chance to support their work.
   
   - Attending recitals also allow us to experience the broad range of sacred music (fine art to folk art) that we don’t normally get to enjoy in an intergenerational service.
   

2. Recitals create a lower pressure environment for our developing musicians.

- Presenting music in front of hundreds of people can be a daunting task! Recitals help our developing musicians grow into platform ministry.

How does a sacred recital at Morningside work?

It’s actually pretty similar to our annual children’s Christmas recital. We typically meet one hour before the evening service a few times a year. Anywhere between 6-12 musicians present vocal or instrumental music.

This spring, the church will provide light refreshments. We want this to be a time of camaraderie and fellowship so please invite your friends and family members to attend!

How do I sign up?

Register here by Easter Sunday, March 31st. Reach out to Pastor Jones if you have any questions.

Night of Worship Recap: Missiology that Sticks

Night of Worship: Missiology that Sticks

February 6, 2024

We concluded our 2024 Missions Conference with an incredibly moving Night of Worship led by guest speaker Pastor Chris Anderson. Our hearts were stirred as we encouraged one another with classic and modern hymns about Christian missions.

If you missed out on the in-person experience, you can watch the livestream recording of Missiology That Sticks here.

Pastor Chris served as a church planter and pastor for 25 years before pivoting to full-time missions. Currently, Chris travels as Senior VP for Global Opportunities with Biblical Ministries Worldwide preaching, teaching, recruiting, and championing the cause of the Great Commission wherever and however he can.

Service Order:

Opening Missions Video: Pray for Iran

Welcome, Announcements, & Prayer: Pastor Crockett

Theology That Sticks

Congregation: “For the Sake of His Name”

Prayer: Pastor Henson

Hymn History

Congregation: “O Zion, Haste”

Congregation: “For the Cause”

Hymn History

Congregation: “Thou Whose Almighty Word”

Congregation: “Lord, Build Your Church”

Hymn History

Congregation: “Lord, Send Me Anywhere”

Congregation: “Facing a Task Unfinished”

Prayer: Pastor Crockett

Hymn History

Congregation: “All I Have Is Christ”

Night of Worship: Missiology that Sticks

Night of Worship: Missiology that Sticks

February 4, 2024

You’re invited to a Night of Worship at 5PM on February 4th to conclude our 2024 Missions Conference.

Guest speaker Pastor Chris Anderson will present Missiology that Sticks, highlighting classic and modern hymns about Christian missions.

Special highlights include our choir and orchestra leading us in fresh congregational arrangements, hymn histories, and extended Scripture readings and gathered prayers.

The choir & orchestra will accompany several of our favorite missions hymns like “For the Sake of His Name” and “All I Have Is Christ” in addition to teaching us new songs like “Facing a Task Unfinished” and “Lord, Build Your Church.”

Chris has written many hymns. He is especially known for “His Robes for Mine,” a meditation on the doctrine of atonement.

In 2017 Chris led us in a similar hymn festival featuring his own hymns. And in 2022 he released Theology That Sticks: The Life-Changing Power of Exceptional Hymns. His premise:

God-centered, Bible-based lyrics, matched with beautiful, memorable tunes, remain in our memories far longer than most preaching ever will.

Watch our most recent Night of Worship from October 15, 2023.

Holiday Music

Christmas is a special time of year, and Thanksgiving is a holiday set aside for something we should always be doing anyway (1 Thess. 5:18). So we want to celebrate both holidays with lots of music. You can find many of our Christmas events here and our full holiday schedule here.

We began our holiday season again with our 4th annual praise service. This year’s theme was praise to our Savior.

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Nov. 12 we host the Bob Jones University Singers.

When they were with us in March, they filled our loft with beautifully expressed truth—and lots of energy.

Bob Jones University Singers (March 5, 2023)

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Our Christmas program is the highlight of our holiday season. This year’s program is Sunday morning December 10 (10 AM, AUD). It’s entitled “The Savior Is Born.”

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December 17, our kids and teens will present Christmas music during an optional combined Sunday school hour (11:15, AUD).

Sign up here.

That night, the kids and teens will present “Christmas on the Air.”

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Our final Christmas celebration is our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service (Dec. 24, 5 PM, Chapel). If you can join us, we would be thrilled to celebrate the Savior’s birth with you.

The Savior is born!

Savior: 11/5 Praise Service

We have so much to be thankful for. And the greatest blessing of all is…

eternal life.

If Christians can’t have any hope after this life, Paul says, “we are of all men most miserable.” (1 Corinthians 15:9). Fifteen of our members have entered eternity just this year.

But our Savior has conquered death. He is risen, and we know that we will live with him forever.

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In recent years, Morningside has launched the holiday season with a Praise Service. This year’s Praise Service will be on November 5. Along with our choir and orchestra, our kids, teens, and ASL class will help us praise our Savior.

Plans for our praise service include:

• Scripture Readings

• Salvation testimonies

• “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death” from combined choirs (kids, teens, and adults)

• “Cross Medley” from orchestra and ASL class

• Several orchestrated congregational songs

Several musicians and readers plan to help lead us before their holiday travels begin. We hope to see you there.

Night of Worship

Night of Worship

October 15, 2023

Women’s Chorus: “I Know a Fount”

Congregation: “Come Thou Fount”

Prayer: Dave Davis

Scripture Reading (Pastor Ontoy): Psalm 96

PRAISE

Congregation: “Immortal, Invisible”
Congregation: “Behold Our God"
Scripture Reading (Elijah Cropsey): Psalm 8

CONFESSION & ASSURANCE

Congregation: “Jesus Paid It All”
Congregation: “Jesus, Thank You”
Scripture Reading (Kenneth Driscoll): Colossians 2:6-15

TRUST

Congregation: “Reformation Hymn”
Congregation: “You are Always Good”
Scripture Reading (Pastor Ontoy): Psalm 23

Song of Response: “It Is Well with My Soul”

Choose Your Words Carefully

This article is part 2 in a series on Music in Worship.

Filter #1: Examine the text.

Always start with the text of a song.

Words matter. When choosing songs for gathered worship, we must start with the text because if the music is good but the text is garbage, we can’t sing it unto the Lord. Because we are analyzing words there is more objectivity at this point in our 2-step filtering process (text and tune). In other words, we can determine with certainty whether a song’s lyrics are biblically true or untrue, profane or holy.

There are three questions I ask when examining a text.

#1: Is the text doctrinally accurate?

Philippians 4:8 instructs believers to dwell on things that are true. It’s amazing how much bad theology will pass through our lips if it’s paired with music we like. That’s why we must always evaluate the text of any song to the text of Scripture. Furthermore, it’s not good enough for our texts to just barely avoid heresy. (That’s a low bar!) Our desire at Morningside is for the text of every congregational song to build up believers because singing is a major part of our discipleship.

Discipleship is an often overlooked role of music in gathered worship. Most people understand that congregational singing is a form of worship (vertical dimension), but it’s also a form of discipleship (horizontal dimension). When we sing, we are actively encouraging other believers in their walk with God. We disciple through singing by teaching core doctrines of the faith and admonishing when something needs to be corrected (See Col. 3:16).

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Examples:

“And when I think that God His Son not sparing sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in. That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing He bled and died to take away my sin.”

Folks, there’s a substantial amount of good doctrine being taught in that stanza. When we sing “How Great Thou Art” we’re teaching the vicarious atonement, human depravity, and the necessity of a blood sacrifice for sin.

“May the Lord find us faithful. May His Word be our banner held high.”

When we sing “May the Lord Find Us Faithful” at the end of a sermon, we are responding as a church family to convicting truth. We encourage, admonish, and hold accountable the people sitting next to us to remain faithful in service instead of becoming infatuated with worldly distractions.

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Do you see how critical congregational singing is to the mission of the church? Every time you gather to sing, remember that you are playing a critical role in teaching (instruction) and admonishing (correction). To do each effectively we must sing Scripture-saturated, doctrinally accurate words.

#2: Are the lyrics God-centered?

Is there more of God or more of me in this song? In Revelation 4:11 we get a glimpse into perfect worship.

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:
for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

Did you notice those pronouns? Where is the emphasis placed? The focus of worship in this verse is not on my own felt needs or emotions but rather on the holy, mighty God who is worthy of worship.

Man-centered worship is most evident in seeker sensitive churches. Seeker sensitive churches want to build their churches with primarily unsaved people. This ministry philosophy views people as consumers and a worship “experience” as the commodity.

This is a major biblical problem because assembling for gathered worship is not about what I can “get out” of church, but instead how I can serve a holy God and other people. Nevertheless, many churches have songs that may be vaguely biblical (i.e. they reference Jesus or include biblical allusions) but they are ultimately man-centered. This is what some have termed “Jesus is my boyfriend” type songs. The lyrics are highly emotional language talking about the way God makes me feel. (Of course there is a balance between singing objective and subjective songs that Pastor Jones interacts with at length here.)

#3: Is the text explicitly Christian?

1 Corinthians 4:23 assumes that unbelievers will attend worship services at times. If an unbeliever attends our local gathering, would they feel comfortable singing with us? Or would they feel conviction as we sing biblical themes about God’s sovereignty, humanity’s sin, and our need for a Savior. Of course, we want to provide a warm and welcoming environment, but we must never do so at the expense of the truth.

Do the words use biblical language to draw my mind to the one true God or a god of my own making? Are the poetic elements such as metaphors clearly pointing to Jesus and His salvation alone or does it just sound vaguely spiritual?

The songs we sing should celebrate the exclusivity of the gospel and the primacy of Jesus as Lord of all.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I challenge you to critically evaluate the words themselves when you sing. Sing with your head and your heart. In our next article, we’ll discuss the second filter for choosing music for gathered worship at Morningside.

Jeriel Ontoy
Associate Pastor

But How Do I Choose?

This article is part 1 in a series on Music in Worship.

Too many choices on the shelf

Have you been paralyzed by choice overload?

You’ve been a victim of choice overload if after you’ve been presented with several options, you feel overwhelmed, highly stressed, and often fail to make a decision simply because you just didn’t know the best choice to make.

I remember when a missionary kid shared her experience about going to an American grocery store to buy cereal for the first time. Little did she know about the daunting, never-ending cereal aisle, stacked to the stratosphere with dozens and dozens of cereal options. Endless choices of different grains, fruits, and more was too much to process!

Whether it’s as simple as choosing cereal or as serious as choosing a spouse, many people feel trapped by choice overload. Instead of moving forward, they remain stagnant. Instead of growing and developing, they wither and decline.

The Remedy

Rather than being paralyzed with fear about making wrong choices, God has gifted liberating boundaries to His people. Within the borders of biblical truth, the Christian enjoys great freedom and abundant life as our Creator intended. Sometimes it takes wisdom and spiritual maturity to discern God’s will in different aspects of life (especially in “gray areas”), but God does clearly reveal His will through His Word.

“We must submit to what God’s Word says
and what it does not say about music.”

This truth applies to the realm of music as well. With millions of songs to choose from how do we choose our music at Morningside? We must submit to what God’s Word says, and what it does not say about music. At Morningside, we use 2 primary filters to guide our selection of God-honoring music in our gathered worship. I’ll simply list them below and flesh them out in more detail in upcoming posts.

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Filter #1: The Text

Always start with the text. The words themselves are the most important thing to consider.

Filter #2: The Tune

At this point we trek into the murky waters of cultural and personal preferences to analyze the music itself. That’s not controversial at all, right?

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Jeriel Ontoy
Associate Pastor

Gratitude for Ron "Patch the Pirate" Hamilton

by Todd Jones | Assistant Pastor

Ron “Patch the Pirate” Hamilton passed into eternity on April 19, 2023. News outlets like Christianity Today and The Christian Post covered his death.

Morningside has the privilege to help lead the service celebrating Ron’s life (10:30 AM, April 29, Bob Jones University). We also get to broadcast his graveside service on our YouTube channel.

Ron couldn't attend our services for most of his membership, but that didn't keep him from having a large impact on many of us--and many more around the world.

Several members of Ron’s family were a huge blessing at our 2019 Homecoming celebrations. That included Ron’s father-in-law Dr. Frank Garlock, who passed into eternity just a few weeks before Ron did.

We regularly sing several of Ron’s hymns. “Bow the Knee,” “Rejoice in the Lord,” and “My Hope Is Jesus,” come readily to mind, but there are many more. Shelly and Megan, Ron’s wife and daughter, have been a great blessing many times in our music ministry over the last several years.

Our kids have continued to learn Ron’s songs in times like our annual VBS or the 2019 presentation of Patch the Pirate Goes to the Jungle.

And Shelly has been a great blessing through much more than her personal music ministry:

• her Facebook page

• her book about her family’s journey with mental illness

• the interview she did with Pastor Crockett about her book

But for me, the effect of Ron and his music is deeply personal. Unlike Ron’s fellow hymnwriter Chris Anderson, I didn’t come to know Ron’s songs in college. I learned them almost as early as I learned my own name.

I was born in 1981, just a bit younger than Ron’s two oldest children Jonathan and Tara. I was the perfect age to consume all his early recordings—and that’s exactly what my siblings and I did anytime we had the chance.

Hours and hours listening to those first 15 recordings taught me a lot. They taught me that words and music could be simple, biblical, and rich—and fun. They taught me that God can use stories and songs together to convey His truth. They taught me that once I had kids, I hoped new recordings would still be coming out. And they were a huge part of teaching me how to sing!

Ron’s voice was like him—unassuming but well-trained and highly effective. I can’t sing “Rejoice in the Lord” without hearing his voice in my ear. And many of his songs were just the same.

A few years before Ron’s early-onset dementia was announced, my dad told me he was thankful that he and I have been alive when we could learn Ron’s songs. Now that Ron is home, I’m more grateful than ever.

Unending Praise

Congregational singing is the heartbeat of our music ministry at Morningside because we value enthusiastic participation in every aspect of our gathered worship. At the same time, the church body is greatly blessed when others can testify and minister to us with gospel-saturated songs.

This Sunday morning we’re excited to welcome the 90-voice BJU University Singers to our English and Spanish services. Our choir and orchestra will begin the service praising the “Ancient of Days,” and after the congregational song set, we will turn the service over to the U Singers before Pastor Crockett’s sermon.

The University Singers is made up of first year students at Bob Jones University under the direction of Dr. Pattye Casarow.

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The songs they present will turn our minds to heaven, and we’ll be reminded that the best part of heaven will not be the magnificent streets of gold or even the reunion with saved loved ones who have gone on ahead. The best part will be enjoying sweet, perfect communion with the God who saved us.

Pray that hearts will be encouraged! 

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During our 5:00 PM service, we host a Singspiration, a “Night of Worship.” We will have several Scripture readings, testimonies, and of course plenty of congregational singing! 

• Come, Thou Almighty King

• O Great God

• Christ Our Hope in Life and Death (our first time singing it!)

• Come, Thou Fount

• Great Is Thy Faithfulness

• Yet Not I, But Through Christ in Me

• For the Cause

We can’t wait to worship with you!

8 Ways Morningside Music Is Celebrating the Holidays

11/6 Sacred Recital | 4:00 PM (Chapel)

11/13 Praise Service | 10:00 AM (AUD)

“Faithful”

12/4 Dress Rehearsal & Fellowship | 11:00 AM (AUD, GYM)

Choir and orchestra and families

12/11 Adult Program | 10:00 AM (AUD)

“Come and Worship”

12/18 Christmas Recital | 11:00 AM (AUD)

Sign up your child or teen here.

12/18 Kids Choir | 5:00 PM (Chapel)

“Sing a Song of Christmas”

Faithful: 11/13 Praise Service

In an ever-changing culture that is increasingly becoming less reflective, many people miss out on the refreshment of learning to pause and remember God’s blessings. There is one day every year, when Americans recognize the need to give thanks. This year, it’s November 24.

In recent years, Morningside has launched the holiday season with a Praise Service. This year’s Praise Service will be on November 13. We will take time to reflect on an important truth:

Our God is faithful.

Maybe this year has been filled with blessings. Maybe this year has been full of unspeakable grief and loss.

Whether on the mountain or in the valley God will be faithful to accomplish His glory and our good. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (1 Thess. 5:24).

Plans for our praise service include:

• Scripture Readings

• “Holy Is He” from our choir and orchestra

• Several orchestrated congregationals

Morningside Baptist Church choir and orchestra lead the congregation in “It Is Well With My Soul.”

Several musicians and readers plan to help lead us before their holiday travels begin. We hope to see you there.

Two Modern-Classic Hymns

This summer, we’re adding two hymns to our congregational repertoire. Most of what we sing in our worship services we call “modern hymns” (like “In Christ Alone”) or “classic hymns” (like “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”). These two hymns, though, are both modern and classic.

Here Is Love

“Here Is Love” is a late-20th-century blend of a classic hymn text and a classic hymn tune. Both text and tune were instrumental in the Welsh Revival (1904-5). In the 1970s Our choir and orchestra have sung a beautiful arrangement of it for many years:

Turn Your Eyes

“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” is not as old as the Welsh original of “Here Is Love,” but it does turn 100 this year.

Helen Lemmel (1864-1961) was a Seattle music critic, a German-trained singer, and a director of women’s choirs for evangelist Billy Sunday. In 1922 she wrote a searching hymn that offered “light in the darkness” to the “weary and troubled” if they would only “look full” on the “wonderful face” of Jesus.

Helen Lemmel, 1895.

The setting we’re learning this summer takes Lemmel’s chorus as its first stanza and adds a new chorus and three gospel-filled stanzas:

• Stanza 2 calls our attention to Calvary, “where justice and mercy embrace” (Psalm 85:10)

• Because of the Resurrection, Stanza 3 reminds us, taking the Lord’s Supper obeys Jesus’ symbolic command to take His very life—His blood—into our bodies (Lev. 17:11; John 6:54-56; 1 Corinthians 11:25-27)

• Stanza 4 calls us to long for the day when every knee bows and every tongue gives “glory to Jesus alone” (Philippians 2:10-11)

We sang it first in our 8/7 PM Singspiration—the classic version was requested by two different classes! We also sang it for the morning service on August 14.

Todd Jones
Assistant Pastor

August 7 Singspiration and Recital

update with video

What we sing together in corporate worship is one of the most important parts of the identity we share as a church family.

As we’ve been doing every few months, the evening of August 7 is a Singspiration—the message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. We’ll feature favorites chosen as many of our classes and small groups as we can.

Listed below is our hymn supplement and a link to our hymnal’s index of 600+ worship songs. If you’d like us to consider a modern or classic hymn that we don’t include here, we’d love to hear it.

The hour before the service, we’ll have a sacred recital of vocal and instrumental music from all ages and skill levels. If you’d like to participate in the recital, just click here. Join us at 4 PM to hear our musicians and 5 PM to sing together.

Morningside Baptist Church

Hymn Supplement

Updated April 2022

• Across the Lands 

• All I Have Is Christ 

• Almighty Father 

• Before the Throne of God Above 

• Behold Our God 

• Beneath the Cross 

• Bow the Knee 

• Christ Is Sufficient 

• Chosen As His His Children (I’m Born Again)

• Compassion Hymn 

• Complete in Thee 

• For the Sake of His Name 

• Give Me Jesus 

• God Bless America 

• God's Word Shall Stand Forever 

• He Will Hold Me Fast 

• His Robes For Mine 

• How Deep the Father's Love 

• I Am with You 

• I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 

• I Run to Christ 

• In Christ Alone 

• In God We Trust, in God Alone 

• It's Still the Cross 

• Jesus Strong and Kind 

• Just As I Am/I Come Broken 

• My Hope Is Jesus 

• My Jesus, Fair 

• O God, My Joy 

• O Great God 

• O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer

• Oh, How Good It Is 

• Only a Holy God 

• Our God Is Mighty 

• Reformation Hymn 

• Resurrection Hymn/See, What a Morning 

• Speak, O Lord 

• Still, My Soul, Be Still 

• The Call For Reapers 

• The Haven of Rest 

• The Perfect Wisdom of Our God 

• The Power of the Cross 

• Trust Me 

• We Will Follow 

• Wonderful, Merciful Savior 

• Worthy of Worship 

• Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me 

• You Are Always Good 

• You Are the Christ

April 10 Singspiration

April 10 is a Singspiration—the evening’s message is primarily in the songs we’ll be singing. Just as we did in the summer, we’ll feature favorites from as many of our classes and small groups as we can. You can find our hymn supplement listed below, as well as a link to our hymnal index. Even if you haven’t joined a class yet, we’d love to hear from you.

Hymn Supplement

March 2022

• Across the Lands 

• All I Have Is Christ 

• Almighty Father 

• Before the Throne of God Above 

• Behold Our God 

• Beneath the Cross 

• Bow the Knee 

• Christ Is Sufficient 

• Compassion Hymn 

• Complete in Thee 

• For the Sake of His Name 

• Give Me Jesus 

• God Bless America 

• God, Please Bless America 

• God's Word Shall Stand Forever 

• He Will Hold Me Fast 

• Headed For Home 

• His Robes For Mine 

• How Deep the Father's Love 

• I Am with You 

• I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 

• I Run to Christ 

• In Christ Alone 

• In God We Trust, in God Alone 

• It's Still the Cross 

• Jesus Strong and Kind 

• Just As I Am/I Come Broken 

• My Hope Is Jesus 

• My Jesus, Fair 

• O God, My Joy 

• O Great God 

• O Lord, My Rock and My Redeemer

• Oh, How Good It Is 

• Only a Holy God 

• Our God Is Mighty 

• Reformation Hymn 

• Relentless Love 

• Resurrection Hymn/See, What a Morning 

• Speak, O Lord 

• Still, My Soul, Be Still 

• The Call For Reapers 

• The Haven of Rest 

• The Perfect Wisdom of Our God 

• The Power of the Cross 

• Trust Me 

• We Will Follow 

• Wonderful, Merciful Savior 

• Worthy of Worship 

• Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me 

• You Are Always Good 

• You Are the Christ