Raising Arrows, Not Boomerangs

Deuteronomy 6:4–9, Psalm 127: 1-5

1. 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 Stalled

1 Corinthians 7:6–9, 25–35

1. 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, CSB

4. 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, CSB

5. Being Single requires wise desire, not cynical despair.

Vintage, Not Outdated

Ephesians 5:22–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026

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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, CSB

so 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 CSB

a. 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, CSB

b. Submission is not silence

c. Submission is spiritual beauty

d. Submission is ultimately unto the Lord

2. A Message for the Modern Man: Sacrificial love

a. A husband’s love is sacrificial

b. A husband’s love is sanctifying

c. A husband’s love is sensitive

d. 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, CSB

e. A husband’s love honors

3. 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 Made

Genesis 2:15–23

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026

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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, NASB95

II. God Revealed Man’s Need for Companionship

Marriage 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 Henry

III. 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, NASB95

IV. God Presented Woman as a Gift to Man

The Conclusion of the Matter

Ecclesiastes 11:8–9; 12:1; 12:13–14

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 17, 2026

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1. ENJOY YOUR YOUTH — BUT DON’T WASTE IT

For 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 YOU

3. THE WHOLE POINT OF LIFE

He 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 Entrepreneurs

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 10, 2026

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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 CSB

2. 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 CSB

3. 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 CSB

4. 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 Jesus

Psalm 27:4

Justin Bindel, Young Adult Pastor • April 26, 2026

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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 27:4

What does passionate pursuit of Jesus look like?

1. Abstain

2. Abide

3. Ask

John 14

Scott Dawson - Evangelist • April 19, 2026

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“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.”

John 14:25 NKJV

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”

John 14:26 NKJV

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

John 14:27 NKJV

“You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.”

John 14:28 NKJV

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.”

John 14:1 NKJV