Sermon, Podcast, Video The Lord’s Prayer: Praying the Essentials (Luke 11:1–4) Life is always going to be difficult, but we can avoid a lot of hardship and needless struggle when we are prepared and practice Read More >> Written by Jim Rennie February 27, 2022
Blog If Only I … Sound familiar? I cannot tell you how many times over the past 45 years as a pastor and professor that I have heard these Read More >> Written by Fred Chay February 8, 2022
Podcast The Book of Hosea (Cover-to-Cover Series) “Hosea is not an easy book. It begins with a prophet receiving a command to marry a prostitute and promptly describes the births of Read More >> Written by Todd Murray and Josiah Boyd January 8, 2022
Podcast On Divine Judgements and Rewards (Romans 2:1–16) Beginning in November 2021, the Adult Sunday School class at Oakridge began working our way through the letter of Paul to the Romans. Below Read More >> Written by Jim Rennie January 2, 2022
Podcast God’s Wrath and Righteous Judgement (Romans 2:1–16) Beginning in November 2021, the Adult Sunday School class at Oakridge began working our way through the letter of Paul to the Romans. Below Read More >> Written by Jim Rennie December 26, 2021
Sermon, Podcast, Video Living a Baptized Life It occurred to me that someone wandering into our service today would be very confused about what just happened here. Hot tubs are for Read More >> Written by Jim Rennie October 10, 2021
Podcast Pray, Then, in This Way Many of us may still remember days past when we started each day in the classroom with the Lord’s Prayer. But why this prayer? Read More >> Written by Andrew Longmire and Josiah Boyd September 8, 2021
Blog Do Not Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much of Today One of the great dangers that can debilitate our lives is living too much in the past. That does not mean we do not Read More >> Written by Fred Chay April 15, 2021
Sermon, Podcast, Video The Authority of the King: Part 2 (Matthew 8:23–9:8) Current news headlines suggest that we have a lot to be afraid of. A spreading virus, a falling economy, government overreach, climate change, creeping Read More >> Written by Josiah Boyd April 11, 2021
Blog Well That’s Interesting (Joel 2:12–14) Welcome to another installment of “Well That’s Interesting” (you can find the first post with a detailed explanation of the series here, or bookmark Read More >> Written by Andrew Longmire April 9, 2021
Sermon, Podcast, Video Spiritual Wisdom: Getting It Right (Colossians 1:1–14) Lew walks us through the first fourteen verses of Colossians and into the context of Colossae, where a new form of heresy was sneaking Read More >> Written by Lew Worrad January 26, 2021
Podcast Getting Down to Business with God It’s been said that “to err is human; to forgive is divine.” While there’s no doubt the Bible presents God as the gold-standard of Read More >> Written by Jim Rennie and Josiah Boyd October 21, 2020