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Releasing ArrowsEphesians 6:1-4Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.Psalm 127:3 (NASB 95)1. Parents must exercise authority before you give them autonomy.The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.Proverbs 1:7 (CSB)2. Use authority to train, not to crush.Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)3. Transfer responsibility before you release them completely.And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.Luke 2:52 (CSB)Release them with prayer, not panic.

Raising Arrows, Not BoomerangsDeuteronomy 6:4–9, Psalm 127: 1-51. Children Belong to God Before They Belong to Us.2. Parents Must Love God Before They Can Lead Children Toward God.3. Parenting Is Formation, Not Mere Information.

Single, Not Stalled1 Corinthians 7:6–9, 25–351. Being Single is honored in the New Testament.2. Being Single can be an advantage for mission.Singleness is not life on hold. In Christ, singleness can be life on mission.3. Being single requires Spirit-filled discipline.“For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.”1 Thessalonians 4:3–5, CSB“Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.”Proverbs 4:23, CSB4. Being Single requires deep community.“‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ he asked them. Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’”Mark 3:33–35, CSB5. Being Single requires wise desire, not cynical despair.

Vintage, Not OutdatedEphesians 5:22–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026--For more information about First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, visit our website at fbcwf.org.To give, click here.--God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.1. A Word for the Wise Wife: Respectful Submission“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”Colossians 3:18, CSBso that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered. Titus 2:4-5 CSBa. Submission is not inferiority“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.”Galatians 3:28, CSBb. Submission is not silencec. Submission is spiritual beautyd. Submission is ultimately unto the Lord2. A Message for the Modern Man: Sacrificial lovea. A husband’s love is sacrificialb. A husband’s love is sanctifyingc. A husband’s love is sensitived. A husband’s love is nourishing and cherishing“To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.”Ephesians 5:33, CSBe. A husband’s love honors3. But How?a. Stop saying, “They started it.”b. Obey your command, not your spouse’s command.c. Replace reaction with obedience.d. Speak your spouse’s God-given language.e. Remember marriage requires the gospel.

The Marriage God MadeGenesis 2:15–23Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026--For more information about First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, visit our website at fbcwf.org.To give, click here.--Big Idea: God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.I. God Created Man with Dignity and Responsibility“Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.”Genesis 2:15, NASB95II. God Revealed Man’s Need for CompanionshipMarriage is a covenant partnership.“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”Mathew HenryIII. God Created Woman with Equal Value and Complementary Design“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.”1 Corinthians 11:3, NASB95“For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man.”1 Corinthians 11:8, NASB95IV. God Presented Woman as a Gift to Man

The Conclusion of the MatterEcclesiastes 11:8–9; 12:1; 12:13–14 Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 17, 2026--For more information about First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, visit our website at fbcwf.org.To give, click here.--1. ENJOY YOUR YOUTH — BUT DON’T WASTE ITFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.2 Corinthians 5:10 (CSB)2. REMEMBER YOUR CREATOR BEFORE LIFE HARDENS YOU3. THE WHOLE POINT OF LIFEHe has made everything [a]appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, [b]yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB95)

Spiritual EntrepreneursEcclesiastes 11:1-6Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 10, 2026--For more information about First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, visit our website at fbcwf.org.To give, click here.--1. BE BOLD — TAKE KINGDOM RISKS“Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure — pressed down, shaken together, and running over — will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.””Luke 6:38 CSB“for the king had ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ,”1 Kings 10:22 CSB2. BE STRATEGIC — DON’T PUT EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE“Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.”Ephesians 4:28 CSB3. BE REALISTIC — BUT DON’T BE PARALYZED“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”Hockey great, Wayne Gretzky“The man who had received one talent also approached and said, ‘Master, I know you. You’re a harsh man, reaping where you haven’t sown and gathering where you haven’t scattered seed. So I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ “His master replied to him, ‘You evil, lazy servant! If you knew that I reap where I haven’t sown and gather where I haven’t scattered, then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and I would have received my money back with interest when I returned.”Matthew 25:24-27 CSB4. Be faithful- work humbly and hopefully “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”1 Corinthians 3:6-7

Passionate Pursuit of JesusPsalm 27:4Justin Bindel, Young Adult Pastor • April 26, 2026--For more information about First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, visit our website at fbcwf.org.To give, click here.--One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.Psalm 27:4What does passionate pursuit of Jesus look like?1. Abstain 2. Abide3. Ask