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 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 | Oct 4, 2024 | Abide Series Blogs, Comfort and Grief, Pain and Suffering, Persecution, Prayer, Spiritual Growth
“Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer...
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...