by OakAdmin | Sep 20, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Comfort and Grief, Identity, Prayer, The Holy Spirit, Theology, Unity
Photo by VJ Paul This section of John’s gospel (John 14-17) gives us the clearest and most extensive information about the Holy Spirit in the Bible. We see the names of the Spirit, the goals of the Spirit and the personality of the Spirit. “Truly, truly, I say...
by OakAdmin | Apr 26, 2024 | Community Life, Generosity, Integrity, Outreach, Spiritual Growth, Stewardship, Unity
“If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. James 2:8-9 Jesus kept...
by OakAdmin | Feb 22, 2024 | Community Life, Discipline, Identity, Shalom, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Growth, Unity
“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so...
by OakAdmin | Feb 2, 2024 | Generosity, Kids & Family, Ministries, Outreach, Parenting, Unity
Free father holding child’s hand image, public domain CC0. More: View public domain image source here “Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.” Psalm 68:5 All followers of Jesus have been adopted into the...
by OakAdmin | Aug 31, 2023 | Disciplemaking, Experience God Series, Global Missions, Outreach, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Theology, Unity
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 Jesus was fully God and fully human. Right. Got it. Of the same divine essence as God the Father...
by OakAdmin | Aug 11, 2023 | Community Life, Discipline, Generosity, Spiritual Growth, Stewardship, Stewardship Series, Unity
“I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good...