by FBC Admin | Dec 14, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
Last week we looked at four essential questions that can help us learn how to know the gospel, apply the gospel, and speak the gospel. The four questions again: Who is God? What has he done? Who are we? What do we do? When applied to our study of scripture and our...
by FBC Admin | Dec 8, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
This past Sunday, we considered what it means to put our hope in God, trusting him with every situation and circumstance. We often find it hard to trust God in the waiting: when we wait to hear if we’ve received the new job, when we wait for the results from a...
by FBC Admin | Nov 16, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
Last time we left the hanging question, “Why does God delay bringing his kingdom into fullness now?” We spoke of how Jesus ushered in God’s kingdom in part five. We said that it is an “already-not yet” reality in which the blessings of...
by FBC Admin | Nov 10, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
Part 4 of our series left us asking, “Would God be faithful to his promise to gather and renew Israel? Would the promised Messiah finally fulfill God’s mission that Israel failed to live out? How does God’s Story continue? In the time between the Old...
by FBC Admin | Nov 2, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
In part 3 of our series, we learned that God had granted Israel an earthly king whose role in leading the people would help nourish Israel’s missional identity and function as a blessing to all nations. God had promised this earthly king, King David, that...
by FBC Admin | Oct 26, 2022 | From Wade's Desk
Last time we learned that God gave Israel his law so that Israel could learn to walk in God’s ways for God’s glory in the sight of the nations around them—this was Israel’s missional calling. The law was the means for Israel to live in a way that...