If the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Prov. 9:10), then we must admit: sometimes we act like fools. Many believers
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Imagine carrying a golden box, believing it alone could guarantee your victory. Silly, right? Yet in 1 Samuel 4, Israel treated the ark of
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Intimacy requires communication. On one hand, words need to be offered. If friends don’t talk, if families don’t share, and if spouses stop discussing—those
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Before the monarchy was established, Israel was surrounded by threats to its national prosperity, integrity, and identity. Foreign nations advanced, false gods enticed, and
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First and Second Samuel are epic narratives, rich with fascinating characters and familiar stories. From Hannah’s miraculous pregnancy to Samuel’s king-making ministry, from the
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SERMON MANUSCRIPT The first fourteen verses of Ephesians speak of God’s grand plan to redeem all things in Christ. At his first coming, Christ
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Not long ago one of my sons was given a remote-control drone as a birthday present. While he had fun almost immediately, mastery of
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Beginning in November 2021, the Adult Sunday School class at Oakridge began working our way through the letter of Paul to the Romans. Below
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It’s easy to become preoccupied with temporal needs, stressors, and desires and end up giving God the leftovers of our time, energy, and resources.
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Psalm 29 is a call to worship God the way he deserves to be worship, because of who he is, what he can do,
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One of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring things is to have a water’s-edge view as a storm builds and works its way in across
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After the glorious mountaintop experience at the beginning of Matthew 17, Jesus, James, John, and Peter return to find the other 9 disciples in
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