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  • God's Plan

    God's Plan
    Sep 8 2025

    Dennis R. Wiles

    First Baptist Arlington

    September 7, 2025

    Flourishing Together

    First Baptist Arlington

    2025 – 2030

    2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ

    1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew)

    FALL 2025: It is Not Good . . . to be Alone

    September 7 – November 1, 2025

    The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.”

    Genesis 2:18

    God’s Plan

    Genesis 2:18-25

    Theme for 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ

    Theme for Fall 2025: It is Not Good to be Alone

    HUMAN FLOURISHING: One of the domains currently being researched in the Global Flourishing Study is Close Social Relationships

    Flourishing Measure Questions

    I am content with my friendships and relationships.

    My relationships are as satisfying as I would want them to be.

    COMMUNION: As Christians, we gather at the Lord’s Table in community with our God and with each other.

    Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and social health. It is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. The mortality rate of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and even greater than that associated with obesity and physical inactivity. And the harmful consequences of a society that lacks social connection can be felt in our schools, workplaces, and civic organizations, where performance, productivity, and engagement are diminished.

    - U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy

    In Eden, Adam had the one thing you would think he needed, right? You would think that God was sufficient, right? But God himself said, “No, it is not good” . . . It is crucial to see that our capacity to be lonely with God is not a sign of God’s insufficiency or lack. It is a sign of his unfathomable generosity: God designed us to need people. You cannot experience God the way you were made to until you experience him alongside others . . . Our fullest spirituality is only possible with others. Our intended existence only works in community. Our highest call is only realized when we pursue it alongside others.

    -Justin Whitmel Earley, Made for People

    CREATOR: Our God exists in plurality and in perfect community in eternity.

    COMMUNITY: Since human beings have been created in the Image of God, we have been designed by God to live in community with other human beings. This is God’s plan!

    CONNECTIONS: Across the spectrum of our lives, we have the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with our fellow human beings.

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    30 min
  • Keep Living! - August 31, 2025

    Keep Living! - August 31, 2025
    Sep 1 2025
    Dennis R. Wiles First Baptist Arlington August 31, 2025 Flourishing Together First Baptist Arlington 2025 – 2030 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew) AUGUST 2025: Gold’s – God’s Gym August 3 – September 6, 2025 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30) Keep Living! Colossians 2:6-7 Theme for 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ Theme for August 2025: Gold’s – God’s Gym WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR? -We live in a broken and fallen world. -Life is harder than we expected. -No matter how things seem, God cares deeply for us! -Control the controllables, leave the uncontrollable to our loving God! TODAY’S LESSON: No matter what, keep on living! EXEGESIS OF COLOSSIANS 2:6-7 -Plural verbs (ye, we) -Progress -Pre-eminence of Christ Jesus -Passive participles -Participatory participle -Pupils CONTROL THE CONTROLLABLES! CHRIST JESUS IS LORD! We must continue to submit ourselves to the Lordship of Jesus in our lives. Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2:9-11 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9 CONTINUE TO LIVE! No matter what, we keep living! All these people were still living by faith when they died. -Hebrews 11:13 But my righteous one will live by faith. -Hebrews 10:38 For we live by faith, not by sight. -2 Corinthians 5:7 COMMUNITY: We must stay connected to the Body of Christ – the Church. Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. -Hebrews 10:24-25 CULTIVATION: Allow God to till the soil of your souls so that the roots of your faith grow deeper and deeper. But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out is roots by the stream. -Jeremiah 17:7-8 CONSTRUCTION: Keep trusting God to build and shape your life through your hardships. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. -Ephesians 4:14-16 CONDITIONED: Trust God to strengthen you in every facet of your life as you learn to be more resilient in the face of challenges. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. -Isaiah 41:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. -Ephesians 6:10 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. -Philippians 4:13 COMPREHENSION: Remember that God is always teaching us more and more about Him, His will, His ways, and His Kingdom. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways may ways,” declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. -Isaiah 55:8-9 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. -Psalm 32:8 CHECK YOUR ATTITUDE! So often we need to be reminded to just be grateful for all God has done and is doing for us! Praise the LORD, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all His benefits — who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. -Psalm 103:1-5 Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 CONTROL THE CONTROLLABLES! -Keep surrendering to the Lordship of Christ Jesus! -No matter what, keep living! -Stay connected to your church! -Keep your soul “soft” in God’s hands! -Look for how...
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    41 min
  • You Can’t Control Everything, But You Can Control Some Things! - August 24, 2025

    You Can’t Control Everything, But You Can Control Some Things! - August 24, 2025
    Aug 25 2025
    Dennis R. Wiles First Baptist Arlington August 24, 2025 Flourishing Together First Baptist Arlington 2025 – 2030 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew) AUGUST 2025: Gold’s – God’s Gym August 3 – September 6, 2025 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Jesus (Matthew 11:28-30) You Can’t Control Everything, But You Can Control Some Things! Matthew 11:28-30 Theme for 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ Theme for August 2025: Gold’s – God’s Gym ACCEPTANCE: Life is often beyond our control. JOURNEY: When we encounter the crises of our lives, we will embark on a journey that may include stages or seasons: dismay, disorientation, discouragement, despair, and desperation. REDEMPTION: God can work redemptively in and through your journey to lead you to stages or seasons: encouragement, enlightenment, edification, and example. RESPONSE: You can control how you respond to the crises and the various stages of your journey. ENCOURAGEMENT Always run to the Lord! “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” -Jesus (Matthew 11:28) When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy. -Psalm 94:19 Share your burden with trusted believers! Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor; If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. -Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. -Galatians 6:2 Keep worshiping God! Hear my cry, O God; From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. -Psalm 61:2 Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. -Psalm 62:1-2 ENLIGTENMENT Let God change your perspective. By faith these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. -Hebrews 11:13-16 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. -Hebrews 11:39-40 EDIFICATION Let God strengthen you through your suffering and pain. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. -Romans 5:3-4 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. -1 Peter 1:6-9 EXAMPLE Allow God to use your experience as an example to others. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. -2 Corinthians 1:3-4 SERENITY PRAYER God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as He did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that He will make all things right, If I surrender to His will, That I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen. SUMMARY – WE CAN CONTROL THESE THINGS! I can always run to God in my crises! I can always share my burden with others! I can keep worshiping God! I can allow God to change my perspective! I can let God strengthen me through my pain! I can let God use me in the lives of others!
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    42 min
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