With a church made up of people from all sorts of backgrounds, personalities, opinions, and walks of life, there are bound to be times
In the Spring of 2020, the Adult Sunday School class at Oakridge began working our way through the book of Acts. What follows are
“If I were an advertising executive writing promotional copy for the sale of the memoirs of Nehemiah … I would have an easy and
In the second parable of Matthew 13, Jesus tells a story about a land-owner, his wheat field, and a dastardly plot by an enemy
The thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s gospel records an abrupt shift in Jesus’s teaching ministry. Responding to his formal rejection as messianic King by Israel’s
After a seven-decade-long, divinely-orchestrated, and well-deserved disciplinary timeout in Babylonian exile, God’s chosen people are allowed (and encouraged!) to return back to the Promised
In a dramatic shift in tactics, noted by his disciples themselves, Jesus begins teaching the crowds using parables in Matthew 13. But what brought
Up to this point in Matthew’s gospel there has been a consistent and clear proclamation of the nearness of the kingdom of heaven (see
In the Spring of 2020, the Adult Sunday School class at Oakridge began working our way through the book of Acts. What follows are
While the books of Samuel and Kings are hefty, jam-packed, and quick-moving texts, they’re only the first two pairs of a history-rich triplet. We
Suffering and pain, trials and hardships, discouragement and anxiety. These are all guaranteed realities of the human condition—that is, being sinful people living in
In Psalm 84 we see the author describe the longing they feel within themselves to be in God’s presence and worship Him the way