This audio is an ABF lesson taught by Phillip Bethancourt on Marriage on February 7, 2010. You can download here.
This audio is an ABF lesson taught by Robbie Sagers on Stress/Anxiousness on January 31, 2010. You can download here.
This past week in Kingdom First, Robbie Sagers continued our study DirectionPoint by discussing the Christian response to stress. As Robbie taught, stress has everything to do about life and godliness. It’s not simply about the seemingly unconquerable and numerous tasks needing to be accomplished each day, but about how we as believers in Jesus respond to such stress. When we face times of distress, we need to frequently ask ourselves what were driven to, and more appropriately, who we’re being driven to.
Prayer Requests
- Please pray for Mr. Dixon who will have his job interview this week. Please pray for the Lord’s provision.
- Please pray for the men from Highview who are on a mission trip to Guatemala.
- Please pray for the Southern Baptist Convention and the Great Commission Task Force Team which is evaluating how the SBC spends its monies and how, perhaps, said monies can be implemented with greater effect for the Great Commission.
- Please pray for Devin and Cara’s missionary friend who has to soon decide on whether she will be extending her mission in Botswana.
- Please pray for a friend of Jeremy whose husband was killed in Afghanistan. Please pray also for a friend of Jeremy ’s who lost her child in the fourth month of pregnancy.
- Praise! The Lovett’s home-study went well. The second part of the study will be this week.
- Praise! Noah Russell Sampler—son of Justin and Jessica Sampler—made his first appearance in Kingdom First, though he slept through most of the lesson.
- Please pray for the Fischers who will soon be having their next child.
This audio is an ABF lesson taught by Dr. Russell Moore on Courtship on January 24, 2010. You can download here.
Taking a brief interval from our next scheduled study through Zephaniah, Pastor Moore began a four-week series titled “DirectionPoint.” Over the next four weeks, Pastor Moore will be teaching on relevant relationship topics for people of all ages, among them: Courtship, Marriage, Parenting. This past Sunday, Pastor Moore started off the series by discussing courtship. In his teaching, Pastor Moore emphasized how today’s “dating culture” is unlike any other relationship atmosphere the world has previously known. Due to the present culture’s fascination with with romanticism and infatuation, individuals are now taught to gauge a potential marriage partner according to compatibility, attractiveness, and “mystical rightness.” However, as Pastor Moore demonstrated, Scripture does not speak to the above issues nor does Scripture unveil a 39-Point Checklist like we see on e-Harmony. Rather, Pastor Moore spoke to the marriage culture of the Bible and how the Bible pictures marriage along the lines of fidelity. Fidelity, a life-long covenant relationship, is that which produces love through a lifetime of disagreement, sacrifice, agreement, complementarity, frustration, and trial. Additionally, as Scripture so eloquently speaks to, it is the faithfulness that Christ demonstrates to his Church that provides the perfect model for how each of us is to pursue and conduct our marital relationship.
This series is promised to be wonderful, so please pass-on the recordings to your friends and family.
Announcements:
- Adam Rice announced that several members of Kingdom First are going to be running in Louisville’s 1/2 Marathon on April 24 in order to raise money for the Lovett’s adoption fund. Very importantly, an organization has partnered with the Lovetts and will generously match each contribution that is made by those affiliated with the Lovetts. If you have any questions on how you can donate or signing up to run, please talk to Adam Rice, our resident fitness expert.
Prayer Requests:
- Please pray for the Lovetts as they have their first home study in the adoption process.
- Please pray for Charles’ father who is having eye surgery.
- Please pray for Andrew’s brother who broke his leg this past week in a military training exercise.
- Please pray for Adam’s grandfather who has congestive heart failure.
This audio is an ABF lesson taught by Robbie Sagers on 1 Peter 5:6-14 on January 17, 2010. You can download here.
As of this week’s lesson, Kingdom First has now faithfully studied three books of the Bible in-depth, verse-by-verse. We began with 1 Corinthians, Joshua, and now, with the completion of 1 Peter, Kingdom First awaits as we learn which book of the Bible we’ll be headed to next. Rumor has it that we’ll be in Zephaniah in the near future.
Announcements:
- Sign-ups went around again in class for meals for the Samplers. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Ferguson.
Prayer Requests:
- Praise! The Duncan’s had an offer on their house.
- Cara’s friend had a baby. Please pray for continued health of the newborn.
- Please pray for Haiti. The tragedy is almost incomprehensible, yet we know that Christ is in control of all situations.
- Please pray for Jeremy’s brother who will be soon deployed into a hostile environment.
- Please pray for Ken’s friend, whose mother recently passed away.
- Pleas pray for the mission trip to Guatemala set to leave very soon from Highview.
As of this week’s lesson, Kingdom First has now faithfully studied three books of the Bible in-depth, verse-by-verse. We began with 1 Corinthians, Joshua, and now, with the completion of 1 Peter, Kingdom First awaits as we learn which book of the Bible we’ll be headed to next. Rumor has it that we’ll be in Zephaniah in the near future.
Announcements:
- Sign-ups went around again in class for meals for the Samplers. If you have any questions, please contact Katy Ferguson.
Prayer Requests:
- Praise! The Duncan’s had an offer on their house.
- Cara’s friend had a baby. Please pray for continued health of the newborn.
- Please pray for Haiti. The tragedy is almost incomprehensible, yet we know that Christ is in control of all situations.
- Please pray for Jeremy’s brother who will be soon deployed into a hostile environment.
- Please pray for Ken’s friend, whose mother recently passed away.
- Pleas pray for the mission trip to Guatemala set to leave very soon from Highview.
This Sunday at Kingdom First, Dr. Moore conducted the ever-popular “Open Forum” where members and visitors to Kingdom First can ask any question imaginable to Dr. Moore. While the nature of this forum prevents us from providing explicit answers to each question, rest assured that every member of the class walks away with greater understanding of wisdom, that is, Jesus Christ.
Announcements
- Justin and Jessica Sampler are the proud parents of Noah Russell Sampler, who was born on Friday, January 8th at 3:36. If you know Justin, he’s by nature a quiet and reserved individual (and a gifted Bible teacher at that). Yet, upon visiting the Sampler family, the proud new father was more talkative and excited than we had ever seen!
- We will be having breakfast next week. If you signed up, please remember to bring your item this Sunday.
- Also, a sign-up sheet went around to organize meals for the Samplers. If you need more information, please contact Katy Ferguson.
Prayer Requests
- Please pray for members of Kingdom First who are struggling to find sufficient employment.
- Please pray for the Samplers as they adjust to life with a newborn!
- Please pray for Devin’s brother’s girlfriend who is undergoing persecution for the gospel.
- Please pray for Cara’s friend whose baby is soon due.
- Please pray for Katy’s friend continuing her struggle with cancer.
- Please pray for the Mulholland’s son who is soon to be going to UK.
- Please pray for Diana’s brother who is being deployed with the military; and a friend of Diana’s whose father suddenly passed away.
This week in Kingdom First, guest teacher Wayne Tyler taught through Psalm 46. As a new year has come, people are thinking through the previous year and looking ahead to the one just come. As such, Wayne exhorted the men and women of Kingdom First to be especially diligent to make God our refuge. While it may be easy to fall into the trap of finding our identity in our vocation, identity, or any number of other things, the Scripture time and again drives the believer to find his refuge in God—it is He who is with us, who has come to be our refuge, and who has come in the person of Christ to die on the cross on our behalf to save us from sin. As we move throughout this year, and all the rest the Lord may give us, may we find our rest and strength in God.
