Greenville Oaks Church Message Podcast

The Weekend series. Colossians 2:15. Friday reveals that the story of sacrificial love is the way of God's kingdom.

Worship Wars series. Joshua 24:14-15. It's the time for a decision. Burn the scrolls. Torch the ships. Choose God. Go all in! He won't disappoint you.

Worship Wars series. 2 Corinthians 7:8-10. False apologies, regret, and remorse will get us nowhere when it comes to our idolatry. God desires true repentance.

Worship Wars series. Genesis 3:6. Idolatry is the attempt to use things or people to meet our deepest needs. Until you deal with your deep idol, you'll never gain mastery over your surface idols.

Worship Wars series. Acts 1:1-6. God doesn't play favorites. He doesn't do partisanship. His tribe is to be a blessing to all other tribes.

Worship Wars series. Luke 18-19. Sermon money and God isn't a real option. We choose every day. We seek our security in bank accounts or in God. One option can run out. The other never will.

Worship Wars series. Ecclesiastes 2:1-11. God's good gifts are meant to be enjoyed, but never worshipped. Things make great servants, but terrible taskmasters.

Worship Wars series. Genesis 29:16-35. No human relationship can bear the burden of godhood in your life. We love others best when we love God most.

Worship Wars series. Genesis 1:26-28. When humans worship created things rather than the Creator, chaos is always the result.

Worship Wars series. Exodus 20:1-5. The question is not if you will worship. The question is what or whom you will worship. We are made to worship. We are built to bow.

Matthew 5 - 7.

Rich Toward God series. 1 Timothy 6:17-19. God doesn't pour financial blessing into our laps to be accumulated. He blesses us so we will decumulate his blessings to others.

Rich Toward God series. Deuteronomy 24:19-22. Before Israel had land of its own, God commanded them to set aside margin to be generous with. Your overflow is someone else's necessity.

Wait For It series. Hebrews 11:39-40. We live in an amazing time. We live after the birth of Jesus, the time all of the heroes of faith were waiting on. Let's not waste the gift of Jesus!

Wait For It series. Jeremiah 29:1-14. Sometimes you wait and don't receive. Sometimes you sow and others reap. But rest assured, God is making all things new.

Wait For It series. Genesis 6:5-22. Periods of waiting don't excuse us from action. While we wait for God, God often waits for us. Sometimes he calls us to build boats. What might God be calling you to do while you wait?

Wait For It series. Genesis 37-50. The question isn't if you will wait, but how you will wait. The value of waiting depends on our outlook. Wait expectantly. First of 4-week advent series focused on "learning to wait well."

Ephesians 6:10-17.

Psalm 136. Train your eyes to see all that God has done. Gratitude is the greatest factor in our happiness and our righteousness.

Chris Shelby is Director for African Missions, Missions Resource Network

Right Side Up series. Matthew 5:10-12. Congratulations to those whose lives are worthy of persecution! As a credible threat to the way things are currently, we have our lives set on God's future kingdom.

Right Side Up series. Matthew 5:9. Congratulations to the peacemakers, to the ones who choose to actively make peace when it would be much easier to keep the appearance of peace.

Right Side Up series. Matthew 5:8. Congratulations to the single-minded! When you desire God with everything you have, you get the very thing you desire most.

Right Side Up series. Matthew 5:7. Congratulations to those who remember the mercy they have received. These are the ones who offer mercy lavishly to those they could just as easily look down on.