Women’s Bible Study
Our Women’s Bible Study group at First Baptist Church began in the summer of 1998 with six ladies. Since that first meeting, we have offered 173 different Bible studies. We have also read 73 books over the last twenty years in our summer reading club. During the last twenty-six years, more than 300 women have participated in at least one of our studies or reading clubs. We hope that you will plan to join us this year!
How Church Could (Literally) Save Your Life
by Rebecca McLaughlin
People are hungry for the latest wellness secret to improve their physical and mental health and extend their life expectancy. But one of the most evidence-based practices to boost your health and happiness is hidden in plain sight. It’s not a new-age trend, a superfood, or an expensive, recently released pill. It’s the age-old practice of attending church each week.
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Someone to Believe In:
Embracing the Savior Who Stays the Same When Everything Else Changes
by Courtney Reissig
Where do you go when all that once stabilized your spiritual life suddenly shifts underneath you? When your faith is shaken and your leaders fail you? When you’re languishing in ministry burnout? When you’re grieving a friend who walked away from God? When the doubts, disappointments, and sufferings of this broken world tempt you to walk away from him too?
Author and Bible teacher Courtney Reissig has wrestled with these questions. And when painful circumstances pulled down the trappings of easy Christianity and pushed her back against the wall of her faith, she had to decide. Will I walk away, or will I stay? And if I stay and wade through the rubble, what is left there to believe in?
It is here in the hardest point of her story—in the season where trust was eroded and spiritual stability seemed elusive—where God met her. By opening her eyes to crucial and comforting moments in the Gospel of John, God made it clear: even in the most unstable and changing of times, there is One who stays the same. His name is Jesus Christ, and he’s someone to believe in.
If you feel disoriented, doubting, grieving, exhausted, or shaken in your faith, open this book, and encounter the steadying power of the unchangeable Christ.
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Habits of Resistance: 7 Ways You’re Being Formed
by Culture and Gospel Practices to Help You Push Back
by Elizabeth Woodson
Every Christian wants abundance and wholeness, and we know we’re able to experience these things when we are formed by the story and the way of Jesus.
So what’s the problem? Why do we find ourselves empty, divided in heart, and unfulfilled? Oftentimes, the problem is we are being formed by some other story or way, allowing culture to disciple us more than Jesus does. If we listen closely, these false narratives are everywhere. And it’s time to break free from their control over our lives.
In this game-changing book, Bible teacher Elizabeth Woodson shows you how to get unstuck from culture’s discipleship pathway. Through biblical teaching, personal stories, and practical tools, Elizabeth helps you not only deconstruct 7 false gospels that invite you into the wrong story and wrong way, but resist them through powerful, time-tested spiritual habits that bring you back into God’s story.
Sign up by June 21 to order a copy of the book.
Dust to Dust: Aging Wisely in an Anti-Aging World
by Jen Wilkin
The world tells us at every turn that aging is a steep descent into irrelevance, one to be avoided at all cost. This false story diminishes not only us but our elders and the time God gives us. But Scripture reveals a markedly different pattern of life, one of increasing value, that calls us to embrace our age and number our days rightly.
Sign up by July 26 to order a copy of the book.
Hybrid Format: Meeting in the Conference Room @ FBC and on ZOOM
Book with video access
In this 7-session study on the Gospel of John, Melissa Spoelstra will encourage you to slow down and linger with the living Word. You’ll appreciate the pace of the Savior who never hurried but completed all that the Father called Him to accomplish. As you turn the pages of John’s Gospel, you’ll be challenged to take on the posture of a learner—understanding that the peace Jesus offers is not an ease of circumstances, but a stillness of the soul. As a result, you’ll grow in intimacy with Him and learn to live, serve, and rest in His peace.