by OakAdmin | Nov 8, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Community Life, Current Events, Discipline, Outreach, Prayer, Shalom, The Holy Spirit
“I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” John 17:16-17 Thankfully the election is over and it...
by OakAdmin | Nov 4, 2024 | Community Life, Current Events, End Times, History, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, Unity
“The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men… And you shall be...
by OakAdmin | Oct 11, 2024 | Apologetics, Comfort and Grief, Community Life, History, Pain and Suffering, Scripture, Theology
“His disciples said, ‘Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.’” John 16:29-30 At the end of John 16...
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 | Nov 9, 2023 | Community Life, Global Missions, Outreach, The Gospel
One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). He brought him to Jesus. John 1:40-42 One of the greatest joys in...