by OakAdmin | Jan 17, 2020 | Church News, Discipline, Experiencing God, Message Series, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
To make the most of our sermon series and discussion focus in our Community Groups we are encouraging everyone at Oakwood to use the Experiencing God Workbook. There are five lessons each week during this twelve week study. Download the overview and schedule here: PDF...
by OakAdmin | Jan 8, 2020 | Experiencing God, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
As we start the Experiencing God Bible Study I’ve been looking for ways to communicate both freedom and discipline. There is an unavoidable tension between the freedom we have in Christ and the holiness God’s Law demands of us. Both are absolute. The...
by OakAdmin | Dec 8, 2019 | Assurance of Salvation, End Times, Heaven, Message Series, Open the Bible, Theology, Upcoming Events
It is not for us to know “the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority” (Acts 1:7). For the world, “the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night… But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like...
by OakAdmin | Nov 16, 2019 | Assurance of Salvation, Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel
John Bunyan is rightly famous for writing The Pilgrim’s Progress while in prison for preaching the gospel. This allegory of Pilgrim’s journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City recount’s Bunyan’s experience. At first, like...
by OakAdmin | Oct 26, 2019 | Global Missions, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, Video Messages
When Isaiah the prophet had an encounter with God, he presented himself saying, “Here am I. Send me.” When Saul the pharisee had an encounter with Jesus, he was transformed into a zealous missionary (and renamed Paul). The Christ-follower who healed Saul...
by OakAdmin | Sep 26, 2019 | Darin's Blog, Open the Bible, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, Theology, Video Messages
“Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves...
by KELLY Nielsen | Sep 14, 2019 | Apologetics, Darin's Blog, Sermons, Theology
OPEN #31 Sovereign – August 11, 2019 Mark 4:35-41 Read the message here: Sovereign Mark 4 Download Discussion Questions here. For more resources on Sovereign, click here. “Jesus Christ is Lord,” is the essence of the Gospel we believe and proclaim. The Lordship...
by OakAdmin | Sep 14, 2019 | Church News, End Times, Theology
The EFCA Statement of Faith was just updated in June of 2019 to state: 9. We believe in the personal, bodily Premillennial and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed...
by OakAdmin | Aug 29, 2019 | Comfort and Grief, Darin's Blog, Life Stories
I have never heard anyone say, “The deepest and rarest and most satisfying joys of my life have come in times of extended ease and earthly comfort.” Nobody says that. It isn’t true. What’s true is what Samuel Rutherford said when he was put in the cellars of...
by OakAdmin | Aug 24, 2019 | Apologetics, Darin's Blog, Message Series, Open the Bible, The Gospel
The Christian faith rests on the death and resurrection of Jesus. There is no serious debate about the fact that a Jewish rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth became prominent in Israel around 30 A.D. and that he was crucified at the orders of Pontius Pilate. The key issue,...
