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  • Radical Obedience - January 18, 2026

    Radical Obedience - January 18, 2026
    Jan 19 2026

    Dennis R. Wiles

    First Baptist Arlington

    January 18, 2026

    2026: Flourishing Together:

    Transformed on The Jesus Way

    Romans 12:1-2 (Gospel Guide: John)

    WINTER 2026: Designed to Flourish

    January 1 – February 17, 2026

    Psalm 92:12-15

    Radical Obedience

    Genesis 22:1-18

    Theme for 2026: Flourishing Together: Transformed on The Jesus Way

    Theme for Winter 2026: Designed to Flourish


    TREK: Abraham’s life with God was a long journey characterized by calling, connection, and commitment.

    TEST: The story of Abraham and Isaac begins with God’s plan to test Abraham’s faith.

    The test, instead of breaking him, brings him to the summit of his lifelong walk with God.

    -Derek Kidner, Genesis

    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.

    -1 Peter 1:6-7

    TRUST: Abraham learned to trust God completely.

    Faith has to do with marrying Invisible and Visible. When we engage in an act of faith we give up control, we give up sensory (sight, hearing, etc.) confirmation of reality; we give up insisting on head-knowledge as our primary means of orientation in life. The positive way to say this is that when we engage in an act of faith we choose to deal with a living God whom we trust to know what he is doing, we choose a way of life in which bodily senses and physical matter are understood as inseparable and organic to vast interiorities (soul) and immense beyond (heaven), and we choose to no longer operate strictly on the basis of hard-earned knowledge, glorious as it is, but over a lifetime to embrace the mystery that must dazzle gradually/ Or every man go blind.

    -Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way

    For we live by faith, not by sight.

    -2 Corinthians 5:7

    When our life is illogical, we must become theological.

    -Skip Heitzig

    By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

    -Hebrews 11:17-19

    TRUTH: God demonstrated that He could be trusted, and He provided a sacrifice in the place of Isaac.

    TRACE: In this story, we recognize that it points to a greater sacrifice in Jerusalem (Mt. Moriah) that culminates in the redemption of humanity!
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  • The Path of Life - January 11, 2026

    The Path of Life - January 11, 2026
    Jan 12 2026
    Dennis R. Wiles First Baptist Arlington January 11, 2026 2026: Flourishing Together: Transformed on The Jesus Way Romans 12:1-2 (Gospel Guide: John) WINTER 2026: Designed to Flourish January 1 – February 17, 2026 Psalm 92:12-15 The Path of Life Psalm 16 Theme for 2026: Flourishing Together: Transformed on The Jesus Way Theme for Winter 2026: Designed to Flourish FORMATION: All human beings are being formed and shaped! The process of formation is inevitable in all human experience. The question is, “Who – or What – is forming you?” FORMED, INFORMED, CONFORMED, TRANSFORMED: These concepts are all inter-related With the rise of social media empires and their spooky digital algorithms, these powerful forces now have direct access to our flows of consciousness every time we slide our thumbs across our phones. What we are led to believe are just ads, news links, retweets, and random digital flotsam are, in reality, mass behavior modification techniques intentionally designed to influence how we think, feel, believe, shop, vote, and live. To quote the tech philosopher Jaron Lanier, “What might once have been called advertising must now be understood as continuous behavior modification on a titanic scale.” The “world” (as it’s called in the New Testament) is forming us, constantly. -John Mark Comer, Practicing The Way INTENTIONAL DISCIPLESHIP: This phrase captures what we often refer to as spiritual formation. PERSON: For Christians, our spiritual formation (intentional discipleship) is centered on the PERSON of JESUS CHRIST! A Disciple: A person being formed by Jesus as they follow Him in accomplishing His mission. The Church is a purposeful community of gathered believers following The Jesus Way together in the fulfillment of His mission. PATH OF LIFE: God has provided a path for His people that leads to life – abundant life, meaningful life, purposeful life, ------ eternal life! “Way” is a stock metaphor in both our Scriptures and the traditions that have developed from them. At the entrance to our prayer book, the Psalms, the opening meditation uses this metaphor to set two ways of life before us. Will you live a solid life of prayer, listening to and answering God, rooted in the soil of God’s revelation, your life growing like God’s Torah, a tree with fruit-laden branches? Or will you live an insubstantial life of chatter and gossip, using words without God-context, oblivious of God, your life reduced to a pile of incoherent syllables, leaves blown every which way by the wind? Choose your way. -Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray. -Proverbs 10:17 I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. -Jesus (John 14:6) Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him. -Genesis 18:18-19 PROCESS FOR FLOURISHING: God has revealed a process that leads us to a life that flourishes. The journey towards flourishing includes these three vital steps: -Knowing God -Experiencing God - -Serving God KNOWING GOD: We must be saved from our sins! EXPERIENCING GOD: We need to be shepherded into community. We need to be shepherded past our past. We need to be shepherded through the challenges of life. We need to be shaped into disciples. SERVING GOD: We need to be sent into purposeful places of service and ministry. PERSPECTIVE: As we follow Jesus and we are formed into disciples, God provides us with a new, profound, meaningful, and eternal perspective. Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. -Ecclesiastes 12:13
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  • Designed to Flourish! - January 4, 2026

    Designed to Flourish! - January 4, 2026
    Jan 5 2026

    Dennis R. Wiles

    First Baptist Arlington

    January 4, 2026

    2026: Flourishing Together:

    Transformed on The Jesus Way

    Romans 12:1-2 (Gospel Guide: John)

    WINTER 2026: Designed to Flourish

    January 1 – February 17, 2026

    Psalm 92:12-15

    Designed to Flourish!

    Psalm 92:12-15

    Theme for 2026: Flourishing Together: Transformed on The Jesus Way

    Theme for Winter 2026: Designed to Flourish


    God’s first words to human beings: Be fruitful!

    FLOURISH: This Hebrew word (parach) is used 36 times in the Old Testament. It means to “break forth as a bud” – to “bloom” – “to blossom” – to “break forth in life” – and it is consistently connected to the truth that God and God alone initiates and sustains true life.

    God has designed us to flourish in every season of life!

    Six Domains of Human Flourishing

    • Happiness and Life Satisfaction
    • Mental and Physical Health
    • Meaning and Purpose
    • Character and Virtue
    • Close Social Relationships
    • Material and Financial Stability

    PATH TO FLOURISHING: We cannot choose any path and expect to flourish the way God has designed us to flourish.

    There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

    -Proverbs 14:12

    You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

    -Psalm 16:11

    For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

    -Jesus (Matthew 7:13-14)

    I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

    -Jesus (John 14:6)

    PROCESS FOR FLOURISHING: God has revealed a process that leads us to a life that flourishes. The journey towards flourishing includes these three vital steps:

    -Knowing God

    -Experiencing God

    -Serving God

    PROVISION FOR FLOURISHING: God has not left us alone to find our way. He is the Divine Gardener Who provides for us in every season of life.

    I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

    -Jesus (John 15:1)

    But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.

    -Jesus (John 16:13)

    If you remain in me and my words remain in you, as whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

    -Jesus (John 15:7)

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