Greenville Oaks Church Message Podcast

Series: Anchored Message Text: Mark 10:35-45 In this season of uncertainty and chaos, you can anchor yourself to this truth: Our God is the God who selflessly offers himself on our behalf. The greatest in his kingdom is the one who serves others.

Series: Anchored Message Text: Ephesians 2:10 In this season of uncertainty and chaos, you can anchor yourself to this truth: Our God is the God who prepares us for the good work he has for us. Often, the preparation for our good work comes in the form of suffering. God is preparing us, even in this pandemic, for our abundant future. 

Series: Anchored Message Text: Exodus 17:1-7 In this season of uncertainty and chaos, you can anchor yourself to this truth: Our God seeks relationship with his children. Our God is God who has always moved toward humans. 

Series: Anchored Message Text: Exodus 34:6-7 In this season of uncertainty and chaos, you can anchor yourself to this truth: Our God loves us deeply. Our God is a God of abounding love and faithfulness.

Message Text: Psalm 137:1-4 How does one continue to grow spiritually when everything associated with worship has been stripped away? Explore lessons from the Psalms sung during the Babylonian captivity to learn how to intentionally drink deeply of God to bear healthy fruit and thrive.

Message Text: Job The biblical story of Job provides an example of a man who remained devoted to God despite the suffering we experienced. Through this story, we learn that trusting God is more important than understanding God.

Series: Disrupted Message Text: Acts 1-15 The invitation in our disruption is to accept God’s invitation to grow more into the church God desires for us to be. God is ahead of us inviting us forward. Let’s accept His call!

Series: Disrupted Message Text: The Gospels Our expectations of how God will appear carry the danger that we might miss the presence of God in this disruption. Pay attention! God shows up in the most unexpected ways.

Series: Disrupted Message Text: Jeremiah 29:4-14 Don’t be idle while you wait. Plant trees others will sit under. Build houses others will occupy. Sow what you will not reap. The New Jerusalem awaits!

Series: Disrupted Message Text: 1 Samuel 8-2 Chronicles Longing for a king "like all the other nations" will lead you to look "like all the other nations." Human rulers will fail us. God will never fail us.

Series: Disrupted Message Text: Exodus 1-16 God’s laws were given to Israel to rehumanize them after slavery. In the same way, the commands of God remind us who we are to be after sin has done its work on us. The way of Jesus is the way to an abundant life.

Series: Disrupted Message Text: Exodus 1-16 We can remain rooted in the bitterness and anger of our past or we can choose to follow God into the beautiful uncertainty of His path for us. Stay on the path. There are better days ahead!

Series: Disrupted Message Text: Genesis 1-12 Disruption often includes an invitation into the unknown. But on the other side of disruption is a blessing and a mission.

Message Text: Numbers 6:22-26 The Lord longs to bless His people. The world was created with original blessing. The people of God were blessed to bless the world. The ministry of Jesus was rooted in blessing as well. May you receive the blessing of the Lord.

Series: The Quarantine Church Message Text: Philippians We can do all things - even be content in the middle of quarantine - through Christ who gives us strength.

Series: The Quarantine Church Message Text: Ephesus The peace you battle to find is within your grasp because God has made available to his holy people his mighty power. Out of his glorious riches, may he strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: The Quarantine Church Message Text: Philemon Paul changed the trajectory of slavery while under house arrest. We have the same opportunity to help people see the image of God in every human being during this pandemic. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: The Quarantine Church Message Text: Colossians Jesus is enough. Jesus is the cosmic Lord, the mystery revealed, the firstborn over all creation, and our reconciler. Any gospel that requires anything beyond Jesus is no gospel at all. May we allow this epidemic to deprive us of our dependence on anything other than Jesus. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: Nothing to Fear Message Text: 1 Corinthians 15 The resurrection of Jesus changed our relationship with the Great Enemy, Death. "Hey Death, where is your victory?" [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: Nothing to Fear Message Text: Philippians 1:20-24 The one thing that puts fear in fearmongers is fearlessness. Fear is a useless weapon when we have been freed from the slavery to the fear of death. Jesus and Paul showed us how to live like that. It’s our job to show the world the same kind of fearlessness. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: Nothing to Fear Message Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Christians ought to be the best at dying because we can die with confidence that death is not a period. It's a comma. If we believe that at our core, we have nothing to fear! [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: Nothing to Fear Message Text: Hebrews 2:14-15 Fear lies to us. Fear isolates us and can make us hopeless. But throughout Scripture, God commands us not to fear. Why? Because he promises to be with us throughout whatever comes our way. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Message Text: Matthew 28:18-20 [Access all message assets, audio, and video]

Series: Coaching the Next Step Message Text: Matthew 28:18-20 We're called to make disciples, not churchgoers. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]

Series: Coaching the Next Step Message Text: Mark 1:15-20 Everyone has a next step on their lifelong journey to becoming like Jesus. [Access all message assets, audio, video, and notes]