{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":"Don’t Worry, Be Happy! - January 19, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2026,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles \nFirst Baptist Arlington \nJanuary 19, 2025 \n \n2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ \n1 Corinthians 2:6-16 (Gospel Guide: Matthew) \n \nWINTER 2025: Happiness Is . . . \nThe Beatitudes \nJanuary 5 – March 4, 2025 \n \nDon’t Worry, Be Happy! \nPsalm 68:3-6 \n \nTheme for 2025:\tFlourishing Together: Rooted in Christ \n \nThe creation narratives the Scriptures begin with are an important source for discerning God’s intent for the human person. There it seems that God’s intent for each person and for all creation is that all aspects of being should be good. At the completion of the first creation narrative in Genesis, we read, “God saw everything he had made, and indeed, it was very good” (Genesis 1). God’s intent, actualized in creation, was that it would be good. \n-Tyler VanderWeele, Theology of Health \n \nFlourishing Together Launch Weekend \n \nSix Domains of Human Flourishing (One slide) \nHappiness and Life Satisfaction \nMental and Physical Health \nMeaning and Purpose \nCharacter and Virtue \nClose Social Relationships \nMaterial and Financial Stability \nTheme for Winter 2025: \tHappiness Is . . . \n \nDon’t Worry, Be Happy – Bobby McFerrin – Billboard #1 1988 \n \nHappiness vs. Joy --- in our common vernacular, most people distinguish between the two. Happiness is usually connected to circumstances and joy is often portrayed as a deeper reality that can be experienced regardless of circumstances. \n \nTEXTUAL REALITY: The Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament contain a wide range of terms that are translated as: joy, rejoice, gladness, cheer, laughter, happy, blessed, exultation, merriment, pleasure, enjoy, and delight. This is how semantic domains work. \n \nIn the Bible, happiness is serious business! \n \nEcclesiastes 9:7 (One slide) \n(NIV) Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart . . . \n(NASB) Eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart . . . \n(KJV) Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UAbjbO_BQA3R5XEsQj1SCg2lWzYdffFGQbPeYIvJPQ8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0Mjg4LzE2NjM1/OTk5NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}