God Cares! - August 17, 2025
Dennis R. Wiles
First Baptist Arlington
August 17, 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)
God Cares!
Romans 8:31-39
Theme for 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ
Theme for August 2025: Gold’s – God’s Gym
ACKNOWLEDGE: Life can be hazardous to our health!
LOVE AND CARE: Never doubt God’s love and care for us
“NOTHING” . . . will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
-Romans 8:38-39
PRESENCE: God never abandons us!
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee your presence?
-Psalm 139:7
INTERCESSION: God is at work on our behalf in the midst of our struggles and pain.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
-Romans 8:26
Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died – more than that, who was raised to life – is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
-Romans 8:34
POWER: God is not just available to us; He is able to equip us and empower us to face our challenges.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
-Psalm 139:11-12
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
-2 Corinthians 12:9
HOPE: God will continue to guide us through our suffering and grace us with hope!
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed . . . so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
-1 Thessalonians 4:13
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him. So that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
-Romans 15:13
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
-Romans 8:37
