by OakAdmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Comfort and Grief, End Times, Heaven, History, Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, Theology
As we navigate social limits from the coronavirus and many other challenges, it’s important to keep a big picture view of what God is doing in history and in the world. The key points to keep in mind are: 1) the gospel is advancing to the ends of the earth....
by OakAdmin | Dec 8, 2019 | Assurance of Salvation, End Times, Heaven, Message Series, Open the Bible, Theology, Upcoming Events
It is not for us to know “the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority” (Acts 1:7). For the world, “the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night… But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like...
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...
by OakAdmin | Aug 24, 2019 | Apologetics, Darin's Blog, Message Series, Open the Bible, The Gospel
The Christian faith rests on the death and resurrection of Jesus. There is no serious debate about the fact that a Jewish rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth became prominent in Israel around 30 A.D. and that he was crucified at the orders of Pontius Pilate. The key issue,...