by OakAdmin | Dec 20, 2024 | Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Scripture, Spiritual Growth, Theology
“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory...
by OakAdmin | Dec 6, 2024 | Comfort and Grief, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Scripture, Shalom, Spiritual Growth
Free pic from Wannapik: https://www.wannapik.com/vectors/52138 “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, ‘O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from...
by OakAdmin | Nov 22, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Discipline, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual Growth
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 We started back in August (2024) in the Abide Series by learning about grapes and vines. We saw that...
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 | Sep 13, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Global Missions, Integrity, Pain and Suffering, Persecution, Prayer, Scripture, Shalom, Spiritual Growth
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” Matt. 5:11-12 In these...
by OakAdmin | Sep 6, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Disciplemaking, Discipline, Prayer, Scripture, Spiritual Growth
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one...
