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 15, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Identity, Prayer, Shalom, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, The Holy Spirit, Theology, Unity
“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even...
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 | Nov 1, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Identity, Prayer, Scripture, Theology
What’s in a name? Your name embodies who you are: your personality, reputation, family, vocation — your identity. It is shorthand for you. Here is a quick overview of the names of God in the Old Testament. “In the beginning, God (Elohim) created the...
by OakAdmin | Oct 9, 2024 | Comfort and Grief, Heaven, Outreach, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Theology
“And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he...
