{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"First Baptist Arlington Sermons","title":"Radical Obedience - January 18, 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2279,"description":"Dennis R. Wiles \nFirst Baptist Arlington \nJanuary 18, 2026 \n \n2026: Flourishing Together: \nTransformed on The Jesus Way \nRomans 12:1-2 (Gospel Guide: John) \n \nWINTER 2026: Designed to Flourish \nJanuary 1 – February 17, 2026 \nPsalm 92:12-15 \n \nRadical Obedience \nGenesis 22:1-18 \n \nTheme for 2026: Flourishing Together: Transformed on The Jesus Way \n \nTheme for Winter 2026:  Designed to Flourish \n\nTREK: Abraham’s life with God was a long journey characterized by calling, connection, and commitment. \n  \nTEST: The story of Abraham and Isaac begins with God’s plan to test Abraham’s faith. \n \nThe test, instead of breaking him, brings him to the summit of his lifelong walk with God. \n-Derek Kidner, Genesis  \n \nIn all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. \n-1 Peter 1:6-7 \n \nTRUST: Abraham learned to trust God completely. \n \nFaith has to do with marrying Invisible and Visible. When we engage in an act of faith we give up control, we give up sensory (sight, hearing, etc.) confirmation of reality; we give up insisting on head-knowledge as our primary means of orientation in life. The positive way to say this is that when we engage in an act of faith we choose to deal with a living God whom we trust to know what he is doing, we choose a way of life in which bodily senses and physical matter are understood as inseparable and organic to vast interiorities (soul) and immense beyond (heaven), and we choose to no longer operate strictly on the basis of hard-earned knowledge, glorious as it is, but over a lifetime to embrace the mystery that must dazzle gradually/ Or every man go blind. \n-Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way \n  \nFor we live by faith, not by sight. \n-2 Corinthians 5:7 \n \nWhen our life is illogical, we...","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}