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Join us for a second week of Jude, part of the Biblical Postcard Series! Key Passage: Jude 17-25 Speaker: Dr. Jim Rennie

Join speaker Jim Rennie as we take a look at the book of Jude, part of Oakridge's summer series, Biblical Postcards. Key Passage: Jude 1–16 Speaker: Dr. Jim Rennie

As has always been the case, our culture today demands people be on “the right side of history” regarding any number of issues. The implication is, you don’t want to get left behind clinging to archaic, outdated ways of thinking. “The world is progressing,” they say. “Keep pace, keep quiet, and make sure you align yourself, your mind, and your actions with our demands.”  Today we’re going to...

Welcome to our fourth and final week as Lew wraps up the book of Ruth Key Passage: Ruth 4 Speaker: Lew Worrad

Week 3 of our Biblical Postcards series focusing on the book of Ruth! Key Passage: Ruth 3 Speaker: Lew Worrad

Join Lew as his continues with the second week of the book of Ruth! Key Passage: Ruth 2 Speaker: Lew Worrad

Continuing on with our summer series, join Lew as he takes on a new book of the bible - Ruth! Key Passage: Ruth 1 Speaker: Lew Worrad

Many people today are engaged in the relentless DIY project of personal holiness, busily trying to construct lives that are good enough, worthy enough, and acceptable enough, often not knowing what “enough” actually is and not realizing that not a single one of us is equipped for the task. Instead, we need to call the Professional with a capital “P.” The people in Haggai’s time were wrestling with...

Life in a fallen world includes obstacles, circumstances, and happenings that can threaten to deflate, frustrate, and exhaust God’s people. Even the most faithful Christian is not immune to these potentially discouraging and joy-stealing realities. How can we possibly endure? How does God equip us to make it through? Key Passage: Haggai 2 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

As our world slowly emerges from its COVID-imposed isolationism, many wrestle with the changes they see and the rebuilding that needs to take place. Interestingly, God’s people faced a similar reality as they returned to the Promised Land from Babylonian exile. Life was different now and they had to work toward restoration. Perhaps, as God’s people today, we can learn something from their experien...

While in his second letter, the Apostle John warned the church against showing hospitality to the bad guys (vv. 10, 11), in his third letter he encourages hospitality for the good guys. In so doing, John describes four archetypal characters that exist in every work of the gospel—the professors, the providers, the prohibitors, and the preachers—and invites you and I to ask ourselves: Which one am I...

Short doesn’t necessitate insignificance. Brevity doesn’t mean a lack of gravity. Today we begin our series, “Biblical Postcards,” in which we are studying some of the shortest—and, thus, oft overlooked—books of the Bible. First up is Second John, a brief note from the Apostle to a church family encouraging them to follow Christ’s commands to love according to the truth. Key Passage: 2 John Speake...

God’s people are blessed to be a blessing. That’s been the over-arching theme of the Joseph narrative and its a main thrust of Genesis as a whole. So, it comes as no surprise that, as we now arrive at the final three chapters of the book, the same message is highlighted in unmistakable fashion. Key Passage: Genesis 48-50 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

The world in which we live is marred by hurt and fear, imperfection and  injustice, brokenness and frustration. Some people don’t merely notice  this, they experience it. So, the big question is, how does God invite  us to change it? Key Passage: Genesis 46-47 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

God’s people have been given a number of difficult tasks—assignments  that, at times, appear overwhelming and nearly unachievable. However, as  we study them in the pages of Scripture, without exception we see that,  along with said charges, God provides resources to assist and promises  rewards to incentivize. Key Passage: Genesis 44-45 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

As the Joseph narrative arrives at one of its climactic moments, the  spotlight lands on the brothers. While, back in chapter 37, these men  had schemed and lied to get rid of Joseph, now, by God’s providence,  they find themselves face to face with him who they betrayed. How will  they respond when confronted and convicted by their past sins? And, what  can you and I lear...

While the battle with fear and anxiety is not unique to the days in  which we’re living, our current cultural reality has exposed and  exacerbated these struggles in many. What does God say about a “spirit  of fear” and how are we to, by His power, defeat such a foe? Key Passage: 2 Timothy 1:7 Speaker: Dr. Jim Rennie

It’s a question that all of God’s people must ask and answer for  themselves: Is the God we serve and worship worthy of our trust even  when it seems he’s nowhere to be found? Key Passage: Genesis 40 & 41 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

God’s people are agents of divine blessing when we demonstrate, share, and defend the life-giving, thirst-quenching water of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What happens, though, if our personal water reservoirs, our lives, becomes polluted? What happens to my ability to be a conduit of God’s blessing if I use my life as a waste disposal site for ungodly living, fleshly thought-patterns, and justified...

If a Christian remains exposed to the harsh elements of sin for an extended period of time, signs of the life we have in Christ can all but fade from detection. We become less pliable, less useful, and less sanctifiable. And yet, dealing with sin is an inevitability for us all. Is there hope for the believer caught in sin? Can God resuscitate and use a once-unrepentant heart for his glory? Key Pas...

Key Passage: Genesis 37 Speaker: Josiah Boyd

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Key Passage: Selected passages from Daniel Speaker: Lew Worrad

Hope is a powerful thing. It's the hope of getting a driver's license that motivates repetitive practice. It's the hope of graduation that promotes the diligence of tedious study – even when we don't feel like it. The hope of an approaching wedding day brings joyful anticipation. The hope of the arrival of a child, or the eventual independence of said child, prompts excitement. The hope of a promo...

Peter's clear: False teachers are not only coming, they're here! How  God’s people respond depends on how we identify the wolves, how  seriously we take the threat, and what plan of action we have in place  to deal with their knocking. Key Passage: 2 Peter 2:1-22 Speaker: Josiah Boyd