Too many believers get disctracted by the new, the flashy, the “fresh word from God.” While I love receiving fresh manna from the Lord, I love Bible basics more. On a recent Wednesday evening at The Oaks, we took time to revisit the words of Christ. His words. His teachings. We came away challenged and [...]
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We live in shifting, changing, uncertain world. Wars. Earthquakes. The economy. TV gives us happy, healthy, beautiful people who have life figured out. Yet each of us know what it is like to live real life, with struggles, valleys, and bills. We know what it is like to live with a big question mark looming [...]
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Like many pastors, my roots are in youth ministry. One of my first official jobs in church was leading a junior-high boys ministry. That followed years of pizza, Bible studies, road trips, fundraisers, and the general silliness that comes with working with young people. This year I have jumped back into working with teens at The [...]
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Too many believers are unhappy in life. Dissatisfied with jobs, money, and their current situation. But this is opposite to what the Lord wants for our lives. God desires that his children be fully satisfied in life, thriving today. THRIVING! Let me give you three encouragements: 1. You are designed to thrive where you are [...]
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As Christians we must know God. To know his ways, his character, his word…and how he interacts with us as children. Too many are confused with the Lord, keeping him in the realm of the unknown. We’ve been taught that God is a mystery, that we’ll never really know him. And this just isn’t so. [...]
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As we begin a new year today, I want to share with you my prayer for our church family this year, not just for The Oaks as a body, but for YOU in your home, life, and family. We all had ups and downs, struggles and victories throughout 2010…but my prayer is for this to [...]
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Have you ever received good news? Not just spotting the up-close parking spot or finding back-to-back episodes of your favorite show, but life-changing good news. News that is received with big joy, that you know will change everything from that point on. I remember the day my wife said she felt kind of “funny.” Yep, nearly [...]
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In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34. Too much of our lives are focused on the days ahead. While saving and planning ahead are both good, worrying about what is around the [...]
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What place are you in right now? Not your locale, but where is your life? Your family? Your fulfillment, contentment, and peace? Your ministry? We all had ups and downs in 2010, but I believe we all want 2011 to be different. Better. I want to encourage you to allow the Lord to get you [...]
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As we have been working through our series on Jesus, His Life and Ministry, we have covered much of what is…but today I want to challenge you with what Jesus was not. The Apostle Paul wrote that we are to be imitators of Christ. We can imitate Christ by what he was not, what he [...]
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