First Church, OK

Whether it’s in marriage, while we’re dating, or even a close friendship… in God’s eyes, holiness is the goal of every relationship. That’s not what our culture teaches. Our culture teaches happiness is the goal. Relationships struggle when...

Have we made God’s purpose (vision) for our lives, for the church, too complicated? Jesus teaches that all of God’s commands hang on two instructions: Love God and love people. As Christians, everything else

A fresh start begins and ends with what we believe. What we believe has power over us, even if we what we believe isn’t true.

Zacchaeus had everything and yet he had nothing. Many people spend their entire lives searching, moving from one temporary pleasure to the next… never finding what they’re really looking for. Only in Jesus can we find the life for which we long.

Nobody’s a nobody to God. Everyone’s a somebody to God. What would our world look like if more people realized this? There’s a cross in history that speaks to our value, that defines our worth and identity.

2017 may have been a great year for you, or perhaps it was a year that brought you many trials. Either way, we now begin a new year with new opportunities and promises. Just as in every other area of our lives, the new year gives us a chance at a...

Message from Chad Broaddus on December 24, 2017

Life is messy. We aren’t perfect. There are messes in our lives. Sometimes we try to hide them. Sometimes we pretend they’re not there. But we’re not perfect and messes often cause problems for us. There’s good news, though. Jesus saves us...

When Jesus lives in you, joy comes out of you. Jesus came to live in us. Yes, He didn’t come to live in us the same way He did Mary for nine months, but still… He came to take up residence in our hearts. Mary’s song gives us some reasons why...

Joy to the world! It is Christmas season and for many it is the most wonderful time of the year! People prepare for family traditions, Christmas decorations, and everything that the season brings. There are sights, sounds and smells that put us in...

The holiday season is in full swing! With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas ahead, it is a time for gratitude and giving. But as we fill up on pie and search for all the Black Friday deals, it’s important that we don’t get lost in the...

We live in a world of celebrities and social media where people’s lives are often lived out in public. We can know a lot about a person without ever even having a real conversation with him or her. But is that really a relationship? Where is the...

At First Church, we have a long history of being a sending church. We take the Great Commission seriously and recognize that we are called to make disciples among all the earth. Sometimes, however, as individuals it can be easy to allow the...

As we read through Proverbs there are some very stark contrasts between the life God desires for us and the way of the world. This theme is consistent all through scripture, and yet, we often see little difference today between the church and our...

We see pride everywhere. Muhammad Ali famously claimed, “I am the greatest!” Yet we have phrases like “pride comes before the fall,” and there is something in us all that roots for the underdog. How is it that our culture both teaches...

We see pride everywhere. Muhammad Ali famously clamed, “I am the greatest!” Yet we have phrases like “pride comes before the fall,” and there is something in us all that roots for the underdog. How is it that our culture both teaches...

We live in a world of contrast. We are confronted it seems with ever-increasing polarities. Religious or atheist? Conservative or liberal? Cowboys or Sooners? QT or Kum and Go? In the Bible we find contrasting themes as well, such as light and dark,...

Mother Theresa. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr. All of these names are well known for their faith and the great impact they made. But they are almost universally applauded and admired because of their lives of service. Each of these...

Throughout this series, we have taken a close look at grace. Over and over again, we have emphasized the main point - God’s Grace is Greater Than...EVERYTHING. As we wrap up this series, we are going to discuss one of the most challenging feelings...

So far we have been looking at the amazing grace of our Father. His grace is greater than all of the things that we have done. And not only that, but last week we talked about how His grace is greater than anything that has been done to us, and that...

How great is the grace of God! Last week, we talked about how God's grace is greater than anything we have done or could do. God's grace is certainly greater than all my sin! But are what we supposed to do with that? Or what happens when somebody...

We all mess up, it’s just a fact of life. It’s so true that we even toss around the old cliché, “nobody’s perfect” on a seemingly regular basis. But sometimes we don’t just mess up, we fail in epic proportions. We deeply wound others or...

Oh, the amazing grace of God! We love to think and to talk about it. We memorize scripture and listen to sermons about grace, even sing songs about it. And rightly so! Grace is one of God’s great attributes. But is it possible sometimes because...

It happens even to the best organizations sometimes, we simply lose focus. Chris Horst and Peter Greer call it “mission drift.” So the more important the mission, the greater need there is to remain focused. In the church we have the greatest...

Life is hard. If we are honest with ourselves, usually the greatest challenges in life have to do with people. People can be difficult. People sometimes let us down or disappoint us. In a fallen world broken by sin, we even see this in the church....