To Those Who Overcome: Pergamum
Weekly Connections: Updated 8-11-22
Weekly Connections: Updated 8-11-22
EX^LT
EX^LT is a college age ministry at FBC designed for high school seniors through young adults. EX^LT is a weekly time of fellowship, connection, accountability, worship, and scripture discussion. Our purpose is to provide a safe space for a college age community to gather, worship, learn, and share life together. We meet on Fridays at FBC, in Room 302. Arrive at 6:30 PM for refreshments before we kick things off at 7 PM. Bring a friend and we hope to see you there. Click here to sign up!
MEN’S BREAKFAST
If you are a man of middle school age or older, you’re invited to breakfast every 2nd Saturday of the month! Mark your calendar for our next gathering, which is THIS Saturday, August 13 at 8:00 AM in the MPR. Food will be provided, so come and eat and enjoy some great fellowship.
If you have any questions, email Dave Neumayer or fbc@fbcrichland.net.
QUESTIONS ABOUT BAPTISM?
Contact Pastor Tim if you have any questions about being baptized or about baptism in general. You can email him at t.walker@fbcrichland.net.
There are also some resources at the Information Table as well as on our website resources page. And don’t forget to come to the Baptism Q/R Breakout on Sunday, August 14!
2GO CAFE – 9 AM SUNDAY
Our coffee stand is open on Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM. Stop by and grab some coffee before and after the Main Session. Donations currently benefit Mirror Ministries, bringing freedom and hope to local trafficking victims, helping them on their journey to healing and restoration.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – 11 AM SUNDAY
• Book of Genesis
with Paul Eslinger – An interactive bible study, Open to youth and adults
– Meets in Room 303
MEN’S STUDY/ACCOUNTABILITY GROUP – 5 PM SUNDAY
Join this accountability and study group for men on Sunday evenings. We meet on Sundays from 5-6 PM in the MPR. Our current study in this Ethics for Man series is called Belayed. For more information or if you have any questions about this group, call Pastor Tim at 360.880.4975.
SENIOR FUN, FOOD, FELLOWSHIP
Join this exciting time of fun, food, fellowship, hymn singing, and games, every third Tuesday of the month from 11 AM – 2 PM!
Join us this month on Tuesday, August 16. Feel free to invite others!
It’s lovely if you sign up on the ChurchCenter app…but if you haven’t, please come anyway. Click here to sign up!
BINDERS! GET YOUR BINDERS HERE!
If you still haven’t gotten an FBC Studies binder, please contact Tami and let her know! We have a new supply of binders available along with tabs for the Main Session, Breakout sessions, and more. You can send an email to Tami and let her know you need one. When you send your request, let her know who the binder is for so she can include a tab for FBC Men or FBC Women. This is a great way to keep all of your studies together in one handy place. It’s also a fun place to put your stickers, too… have you gotten any stickers from the Information Table yet?
Send Tami an email to request your binder: t.montgomery@fbcrichland.net
CHURCH AT THE PARK – 8/21
We will hold our church service at the river NEXT WEEK on August 21 at 9:30 AM at Leslie Groves Park, shelter #1.
There are some postcards with a map of the location available at the Connect Table so you will know where we will be, and you can take some postcards to invite friends, also! Stay after the service for baptisms and then a picnic after that! Mark your calendars, it’s going to be a great time of worship and fellowship.
Here’s what to bring:
• Chair, picnic blanket, whatever you want to sit on
• Water (we will provide some)
• Non-perishable picnic food to share (cookies, chips, watermelon, etc.)
We will provide hot dogs, buns, condiments, and water for lunch.
If you want to be baptized make sure to come prepared for that!
NEW BREAKOUT FOR WOMEN COMING 9/11
Please join us for this 13-week study by Jennifer Kennedy Dean titled: “Live a Praying Life”. The study will be held during Breakout Sessions on Sundays from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM and it begins on September 11. Open to women in their teens and older.
Please purchase your own workbook so that you can complete the lessons each week for discussion.
Hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Stacy Mouat, 574.265.8488 (text or call)
or email – stacymouat@gmail.com
For a study summary and book info, please visit the event on the App! Home>Connect>Events or click here
LIBRARY BOOK CLUB – 9/27
The Library Ladies book club is for everyone who reads and loves books is invited. In fact, bring your book-loving friends too. We will talk BOOKS!
We want to know what you are reading now, so bring that and bring ideas for our next read. We’ll all vote to decide the book we will read together and discuss at the next meeting.
We meet on the last Saturday of the month from 9:30 – 11:00 AM, In August we will meet at Jen Frater’s Lovely Library.
For more info and to sign up, please visit the event on the App: Home>Connect>Signups or click here
Looking forward to seeing you!
The Library Ladies Jen, Shelly, Tami, and Tara
LIBRARY LADIES PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AUGUST
Jen recommends: Jane and Jesus podcast (Karen Swallow Prior)
Shelly recommends: OnScript: Biblical World podcast (Bible scholars interview archaeologists)
Tami recommends: Brant & Sherri Oddcast (Brant Hansen)
Tara recommends: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast (Christianity Today)
Happy Listening!
The Library Ladies (Jen, Shelly, Tami, and Tara)
Regular Weekly Gatherings
Week Beginning August 14
SUNDAY
2Go Cafe Open @ 9:00 AM
Main Session @ 9:30 AM
(Nursery for ages 0-3)
In Person @ FBC: Auditorium & MPR Simulcast
or
Online Livestream: YouTube
Worship through Music ~ James Jones
Worship through the Word ~ Alan Zacher
To Those Who Overcome: Pergamum
Breakout Session @ 11:00 AM
Book of Genesis – Room 303
Questions About Life – Room 302
Baptism Q/R – MPR
Men’s Accountability Group @ 5:00 PM
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TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Grades 7-12
FRIDAY
EX^LT @ 6:30 PM
H.S. Seniors – Young Adults
Sunday Welcome
Welcome to Sunday Worship!
- For the Summer, we are offering nursery care for ages 0-3 during our 9:30 AM Main Session. All other ages are welcome and encouraged to participate with their families in the Main Session, where they can grab a Kids Bible Study Notes packet from the table in the back if they wish
- If at any time a different venue would be helpful, you may view the simulcast of the Main Session in our Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
- Breakout Sessions begin at 11:00 AM, locations vary
- Please check in – whether you are here in person or watching online – using the ChurchCenter app on your smartphone, or on the ChurchCenter online portal on a computer (choose “in person” or “online” when you check in)
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Song Lyrics 8-14-22
Today’s Songs 8-14-22
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My Redeemer Lives
At The Cross
O Come To The Altar
I Speak Jesus
My Redeemer Lives
Verse
I know He rescued my soul
His blood has covered my sin
I believe I believe
My shame He’s taken away
My pain is healed in His name
I believe I believe
Pre-Chorus
I’ll raise a banner
‘Cause my Lord has conquered the grave
Chorus
My Redeemer lives
My Redeemer lives
My Redeemer lives
My Redeemer lives
Bridge
You lift my burdens
I’ll rise with You
I’m dancing on this mountaintop
To see Your kingdom come
At The Cross (Love Ran Red)
Verse 1
There’s a place
Where mercy reigns and never dies
There’s a place
Where streams of grace flow deep and wide
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Chorus
At the cross at the cross
I surrender my life
I’m in awe of You I’m in awe of You
Where Your love ran red and my sin washed white
I owe all to You I owe all to You (Jesus)
Verse 2
There’s a place
Where sin and shame are powerless
Where my heart
Has peace with God and forgiveness
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Bridge
Here my hope is found
Here on holy ground
Here I bow down here I bow down
Here arms open wide
Here You saved my life
Here I bow down here I bow (down)
O Come To The Altar
Verse 1
Are you hurting and broken within
Overwhelmed by the weight of your sin
Jesus is calling
Have you come to the end of yourself
Do you thirst for a drink from the well
Jesus is calling
Chorus
O come to the altar
The Father’s arms are open wide
Forgiveness was bought with
The precious blood of Jesus Christ
Verse 2
Leave behind your regrets and mistakes
Come today there’s no reason to wait
Jesus is calling
Bring your sorrows and trade them for joy
From the ashes a new life is born
Jesus is calling
Bridge
Oh what a Savior
Isn’t he wonderful
Sing alleluia Christ is risen
Bow down before him
For he is Lord of all
Sing alleluia Christ is risen
I Speak Jesus
Verse 1
I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
Over ev’ry heart and ev’ry mind
‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence
I speak Jesus
Verse 2
I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
‘Til ev’ry dark addiction starts to break
Declaring there is hope and there is freedom
I speak Jesus
Chorus
(‘Cause) Your Name is power
Your Name is healing
Your Name is life
Break ev’ry stronghold
Shine through the shadows
Burn like a fire
Verse 3
I just want to speak the Name of Jesus
Over fear and all anxiety
To ev’ry soul held captive by depression
I speak Jesus
Verse 4
Shout Jesus from the mountains
Jesus in the streets
Jesus in the darkness over ev’ry enemy
Jesus for my fam’ly
I speak the holy Name Jesus
Sermon Study Guide
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Revelation Resource Guide
To Those Who Overcome: Pergamum
Alan Zacher
“Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum: Thus says the one who has the sharp, double-edged sword: I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was put to death among you, where Satan lives. But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth. “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Revelation 2:12-17 CSB
Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name
לא תשא את שם
Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel’s sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions, as a continual reminder before the Lord.
נשא (אהרן) את שמות
Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:14-16 CSB
בלע + עם Consumes People
nika + leon Overcomes People
Did God’s people ever eat meat sacrificed to God?
11 “Now this is the law of the fellowship sacrifice that someone may present to the Lord…
15 The meat of his thanksgiving sacrifice of fellowship must be eaten on the day he offers it; he may not leave any of it until morning…
Leviticus 7:11…21 (CSB)
Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields. You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the Lord your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the Lord your God. But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you and since the Lord your God has blessed you, then exchange it for silver, take the silver in your hand, and go to the place the Lord your God chooses. You may spend the silver on anything you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your family. Do not neglect the Levite within your city gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you
Deuteronomy 14:22-27 CSB
“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Revelation 2:17 CSB
Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying, Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty, reigns! Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself. She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These words of God are true.”
Revelation 19:6-9 CSB
To continue the conversation, email Alan Zacher at a.zacher@fbcrichland.net
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