{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":"Flourishing in Pursuit - February 9, 2025","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2278,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles \nFirst Baptist Arlington \nFebruary 9, 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 \nFlourishing in Pursuit \nMatthew 5:6 \n \nTheme for 2025: Flourishing Together: Rooted in Christ \n \nTheme for Winter 2025: Happiness Is . . . \n \nHappiness and Life Satisfaction \n1. Overall, how satisfied are you with life as a whole these days? \n2. In general, how happy or unhappy do you usually feel? \n \nI can’t get no . . . satisfaction! So many in our world engage in wrong, meaningless, and/or “less than” pursuits! \n \nHUNGER AND THIRST \n \nAs the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. \n-Psalm 42:1-2 \n \nCome, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money without money and without cost. \n-Isaiah 55:1 \n \nRIGHTEOUSNESS \n \nFor I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. \n-Matthew 5:20 \n\nI would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. \n-Wilbur Rees \n \nFILLED","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}