by OakAdmin | Mar 5, 2020 | Church News, Comfort and Grief, Elders, Pain and Suffering, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Theology
Most of you have heard of a new coronavirus that originated in China and has had several small scale outbreaks elsewhere in the world. Media reports on the topic have ranged in tone from panic to calm reassurance.While there is certainly cause for concern, there are...
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 | 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...
