Weekly Connections: Updated 8-25-22
Weekly Connections: Updated 8-25-22
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!
LIBRARY BOOK CLUB – 8/27
The Library book club is ON SATURDAY! This book club is for everyone who reads and loves books, and all are 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, This month – Saturday 8/27– we will meet at Jen Frater’s Lovely Library, at 68602 E 715 PR NE in Richland.
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
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.
YOUTH GROUP END OF SUMMER BASH – 8/30
Youth group will be different this week! Here are the details:
What: End of Summer Bash/Fall Kickoff and BBQ
When: Tuesday, August 30 from 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Scott & Jessica Meyers’ house – 73552 N Pederson Rd, West Richland
Food and drinks provided.
Bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Questions? Contact Tara Zacher @ 509.308.7859
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
AWANA SIGNUPS OPEN
AWANA begins on Wednesday September 14!
AWANA stands for “Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed” from 2 Timothy 2:15 in the Bible.
Join us for a great year of AWANA – where kids matter!
* AWANA is centered on the gospel – Scripture memory is a key element.
* AWANA helps parents worldwide raise children to know, love, and serve Christ.
* AWANA is built on volunteer leadership.
* AWANA is exciting and fun!!
AWANA Clubber 2022-2023 Registration
Sign up here to volunteer with AWANA
2022-2023 Calendar
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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)
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
Regular Weekly Gatherings
Week Beginning August 28
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 ~ Pastor Brad Nelson
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
To Those Who Overcome: Thyatira
Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM
Book of Genesis – Room 303
Ministry of the Month – MPR
Men’s Accountability Group @ 5:00 PM
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TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
**End of Summer Bash @ Meyers’ House**
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)
- Click here for hearing assistance information
Song Lyrics 8-28-22
Today’s Songs 8-28-22
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He Has Won
Broken Vessels
Christ Is Risen
Savior
He Has Won
Verse 1
To all who are the tired and the heavy laden
Hope has come
To all who feel the weight of the broken spirit
Hope has come
Lift up your eyes lift up your head
The power of our sin is dead
Chorus
(‘Cause) (Yes) He has won
Death is swallowed up in victory
Through the Son
The grave has lost its sting and its grip over me
Yes (‘Cause) He has won
(Yes He has won)
Verse 2
To those who seek the love of a perfect father
Hope has come
To those who see the light of the risen Savior
Hope has come
Lift up your eyes lift up your head
The power of our sin is dead
Bridge
Jesus has come Jesus has come
Sing it louder sing it louder
Jesus has won Jesus has won
Sing it louder sing it louder
Broken Vessels
Verse 1
All these pieces
Broken and scattered
In mercy gathered
Mended and whole
Empty handed
But not forsaken
I’ve been set free
I’ve been set free
Chorus
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
Oh I once was lost
But now I am found
Was blind but now I see
Chorus
Oh I can see You now
Oh I can see the love in Your eyes
Laying Yourself down
Raising up the broken to life
Verse 2
You take our failure
You take our weakness
You set Your treasure
In jars of clay
So take this heart Lord
I’ll be Your vessel
The world to see Your life in me
Christ Is Risen
Verse 1
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You’ve bled for us
Chorus
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Verse 2
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven’s will
No scheme of hell no scoffer’s crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim
Bridge
O death where is your sting
O hell where is your victory
O church come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
Singing O death where is your sting
O hell where is your victory
O church come stand in the light
Our God is not dead He’s alive He’s alive
Savior
Verse 1
My hope is found in the living God
Who is the Savior of all
I find my rest in His saving grace
Nations bow down at His throne
Pre-Chorus
He is Savior He is Savior
Verse 2
My spirit sings to the only God
The rescuer of all men
His mercy reigns over all the earth
His love has pardoned our sin
Chorus
I give my life to declare You are King
Jesus the Lamb Who was slain for me
Light of the world and my Deliverer
You are my Savior
Pre-Chorus
You are Savior You are Savior
Ending
Jesus You are my Savior
Jesus You are my Savior
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To Those Who Overcome: Thyatira
Pastor Tim Walker
18 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. 19 “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 20But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. 24But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. 25Only hold fast what you have until I come. 26The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, 27and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 28And I will give him the morning star. 29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Revelation 2:18-29 ESV
5 Thus says the Lord:“Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come.He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 10 “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” 11 Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool. 12 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Jeremiah 17:5-13 ESV
As we gather…
What does the passage say?
Key words/phrases?
Major theological terms?
Commands?
Promises?
Difficult words/phrases?
What does the passage mean?
Context? (never interpret less than a paragraph)
How would the original hearers receive this?
Key word definitions?
Parallel Biblical teachings?
Can you communicate the point of this passage in a simple phrase?
As we go…
What must I do in response?
How does this truth apply to my life? Personally?
As the church?
In my community?
What steps do I need to take to apply this?
(Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based Goals)
What is a missional conversation nugget to discuss with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc.?
To whom will I be accountable?
(reach out and ask… follow up)
The Christian life is designed to be transferred relationally and journeyed together.
“Rope in”– brother to brother and sister to sister – on a weekly basis so that together we can draw near to God and join him in his kingdom work.
This is an exploration – commit and prepare for a long and rewarding journey.
To continue the conversation, email Pastor Tim:
t.walker@fbcrichland.net
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