by OakAdmin | May 11, 2023 | Community Life, Disciplemaking, Famous Writers, Identity, Spiritual Gifts, Work, Worldview
Since work tends to be difficult, and is often frustrating, we can wrongly conclude that work itself is more of a curse than a blessing. “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of...
by OakAdmin | Sep 10, 2021 | Disciplemaking, Pain and Suffering, Worldview
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31 Genesis 1 is beautiful poetry. The final summation of God’s recurring “it was good,” comes in verse 31, “it was very good.” We heard last week (9/5/21 service) how the goodness of...
by OakAdmin | Sep 3, 2021 | Comfort and Grief, Pain and Suffering, Scripture, The Gospel, Theology, Worldview
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good.” Genesis 1:3-4 “God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.”...
by OakAdmin | Aug 27, 2021 | Apologetics, Famous Writers, Theology, Worldview
The Andromeda Galaxy We cannot see our Milky Way Galaxy since we are inside it, but the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy gives us an idea of what our spiral-armed Galaxy looks like. Hundreds of billions of stars in an infinite variety of clusters, planets and voids. Truly...
by OakAdmin | Aug 26, 2021 | Apologetics, Famous Writers, Scripture, Theology, Worldview
As we continue our Foundations series, we are reflecting on the essential beliefs on which our whole Christian worldview rest. We’ve seen that the unshakable double layer basis for our faith is God and His Word. The two are inseparable because God has staked His...
by OakAdmin | Aug 19, 2021 | Scripture, Spiritual Growth, Theology, Worldview
I still remember being called to the Nurse’s office in third grade and being told I had failed the vision test. Mom took me to the eye doctor the next day and I drove home with glasses – for the first time realizing those blurry green blobs on trees were...