What does First B Jackson teach about fear and worry?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on fear and worry starts with an honest look at what people are actually experiencing. In the women's Bible study Deborah Buckingham led, she named what she had been hearing for months in real conversations: women are anxious and stressed in ways that feel different from any earlier season, with depression and anxiety rising sharply and people at dinner tables talking not about ordinary life but about looming wars, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. That naming matters, because the teaching does not paper over the weight of it.
The answer Deborah kept coming back to was a single word: rooted. Being rooted means knowing what your life is actually built on, where you go for answers, and what narrative you allow into your thinking. She pointed to Jeremiah 17, written during the Babylonian crisis, where the person who trusts in the Lord is pictured as a tree planted by a riverbank whose leaves stay green through drought. That is not a promise about circumstances going well. It is a deep, joy-filled contentment that no storm can take away. And the foundation that makes that kind of rootedness possible, she argued, is the resurrection of Jesus, the one event that simply cannot happen unless it is God.
Pastor Mark's 2019 message from Isaiah 8 and 9 pressed on the same nerve from a different angle. God's word to a people about to be overrun was not to panic, not to read every threat as a conspiracy, and not to run after whatever the culture offers for comfort. Instead, make the Lord holy in your life, fear Him rather than the fearmongers, and wait upon Him. Pastor Mark drew the picture of waiting less like checking a watch and more like a waiter at a table, attentive and ready. And the text does not stop at the darkness. It pivots to a nevertheless: the very land that received the worst of the judgment is exactly where the light showed up. That is the shape of the whole story, and it is meant to hold people now.
Taught from Jeremiah 17 · Matthew 7 · Isaiah 8 · Isaiah 9:1-7 · Isaiah 40:31
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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The messages that teach on it
- September 6, 2023 Women's Bible Study - September 6th, 2023 Deborah Buckingham opens a women's Bible study on rooting life in Christ, drawing on the resurrection, ancient martyrs, and God's promises to calm anxiety and fear.
- August 4, 2019 Nevertheless: The Time of Darkness Will Not Last Forever The pastor traces Isaiah 8 and 9 through Hebrews to show how every longing points to Jesus, the light who breaks every yoke and rules in peace forever.
Mentioned along the way
- October 17, 2012 I Thought You Were Different A look at Jesus' temptations in Matthew 4 and what it means to stand firm against compromise when the world keeps saying it's easier to just fit in.