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God With Us: Acts, Week 6 Paul’s Third Journey – Asia Minor (Acts 18:23-21:17) The 3rd mission trip focused on Paul’s return to Ephesus, where he spent 3 years preaching the gospel in the region. Ephesus was renowned as the center for pagan magic in the ancient world. It was here that the Holy Spirit gave Paul “extraordinary miracles” to show the power of the gospel to be superior to the power of...

God With Us: Acts, Week 5 Paul’s Second Journey – Macedonia (Acts 15:36-18:22) The focus of this 2nd mission trip was the region of Macedonia, with churches being planted in Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, and Corinth. It was Paul’s final stop on this trip, the city of Corinth, where he met Priscilla and Aquila, who provided housing for Paul and became lifelong companions and coworkers. Thi...

God With Us: Acts, Week 4 Paul’s First Journey – Galatia (Acts 13–15:35) The Holy Spirit tapped Paul and Barnabas on the shoulder to be the first missionaries to the wider Gentile world (fulfilling the 3rd part of the mission outlined by Jesus in Acts 1:8). After being prayed over, the other apostles sent them out. The first mission trip was limited to the region of Galatia. This message is part o...

God With Us: Acts, Week 3  The Ministry in Judea & Samaria Acts 8–12  The death of Stephen instigated a major persecution against the Christian community in Jerusalem. Saul of Tarsus was the major mover in the wider persecution effort, as he rounded up Christians near and far, taking them back to Jerusalem to face the Jewish authorities on the charge of promoting heresy. The persecution served a p...

God With Us: Acts, Week 2 The Ministry in Jerusalem Acts 3-7 In the first phase, the apostles present the message of the crucified and risen Lord to their fellow countrymen in Jerusalem. After much conflict and persecution, the Jerusalem phase of ministry comes to a head with the testimony of Stephen, a young Jewish man who was a devout follower of Jesus. With his execution by stoning, it was as i...

God With Us: Acts, Week 1 The Birth of the Church (Acts 1-2) In Acts, Luke narrates how, after the ascension of Jesus back into heaven, His disciples obeyed His commission (they acted, thus the name) to take the gospel, in the power of the Spirit, to the ends of the earth. The overall theme of Acts can be summarized as follows: The Spirit-empowered proclamation of the gospel to the ends of the ear...

Mother's Day 2019 Life-Giver Mother’s Day is a day to be reminded and inspired that as younger or older women, we all have a life-giving impact on the people around us and our society in countless ways.

God With Us: Jesus, Week 25 Alpha & Omega: The Second Coming Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. When Jesus says he is the Alpha and Omega, He means that He is the beginning and the end of human history. It all began with Him, when He created everything (Genesis 1), and it will all end with Him when He re-creates everything (Revelation 21:5). This message is part...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 24 King: The Post-Resurrection Appearances of Jesus During the 40 days following His resurrection, Jesus appeared many times in many places to individuals and groups of people. Only a few of the appearances are recorded in the 4 gospels. The empty tomb, combined with His numerous post-resurrection appearances and the impact these had on His followers, constitute the eviden...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 23 - Easter Sunday This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the entire Bible.

God With Us: Jesus, Week 23 -  Good Friday This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the entire Bible.

God With Us: Jesus, Week 22 High Priest: A Final Prayer Sometime after He left the upper room with His disciples and before they arrived at the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus stopped to pray. This prayer is found only in John 17. It has been called “the high-priestly prayer” of Jesus, because He takes His stand as the priestly intercessor, mediating the relationship between God and man. He intercedes...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 21 King: Triumph and Trouble At the beginning of Passover week, Jesus came into Jerusalem accompanied by a huge crowd celebrating the arrival of the man they hoped would be their king. Following this triumphal entry, Jesus encountered resistance from religious leaders who had already decided they must find a way to put him to death. This sets the stage for quite a tumultuo...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 20 Master: The Upper Room Discourse Only the gospel of John contains an extended “Upper Room Discourse” that Jesus spoke to His disciples on the last night of His life. This discourse has been called “marching orders” from Jesus to His disciples, as He was about to leave them in the world to continue with His mission. These are the vital instructions they needed in order t...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 19 Restorer of Life; Anointed for Death As the public ministry of Jesus nears the conclusion, John gives us the 5th “I AM” statement, combined with a major miracle to prove it. Jesus will claim to be the resurrection and the life. He will prove this claim by raising His beloved friend, Lazarus, from the dead. This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 18 Good Shepherd: And The Gate In John 10 we see the debate between Jesus and the Pharisees heighten as Jesus claimed to be “the good shepherd,” in contrast to the leaders who were “thieves and robbers” that took advantage of the sheep for their own gain. This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the entire Bible.

God With Us: Jesus, Week 17 Light: Jesus is the Light of the World John continues His presentation of the seven “I am” statements of Jesus with the “Light of the World” discourse. First Jesus declares that He is the light of the world (ch.8) and then He proves it by bring light to the eyes of a blind man (ch.9). This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the e...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 16 Bread: True Life for the World In John 6:26 Jesus begins his “Bread of Life Discourse” where he conveys six major points using bread as a metaphor for himself. It is only found in John’s gospel where a major theme is that the source and restorer of true life is Jesus. This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the entire Bible.

God With Us: Jesus, Week 15 Seeker – Jesus’ Heart for People The entire Bible is summed up in Luke 19:10; “For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost”. From Genesis, in the Garden of Eden when God came seeking Adam and Eve who were hiding from Him, until the end of the New Testament, God the Son in different forms has been seeking humanity. Jesus displays His heart for lost humanity through...

God With Us: Jesus, Week 14 The CHRIST: Jesus’ Title and Mission Jesus was not a prophet or teacher on a mission to show us how to live. He was sent by the Father to pay the penalty that each of us deserves to pay. This message is part of our God With Us series where Pastor Bob walks us through the entire Bible.

NEXT, Week 6 The NEXT Chapter Everyone loves a good story. And most good stories have great endings where the hero either saves the world, a relationship, or both. In the end, everyone lives happily ever after. The book of Acts isn’t just a good story - it’s a great story! But it has an unusual ending. It has an un-ending, implying there is a bigger story yet to come. It’s not a sequel per se, but...

NEXT, Week 5 The NEXT Life Jesus encouraged us to store up treasure in heaven, not here on earth. There will be a next life, and where we invest our treasure in this life impacts not only our reward in the next, but the people who will join us there.

NEXT, Week 4 The NEXT Story The story of Simon of Cyrene has more to it than you might think. Yes, he carried the cross of Jesus. But once he reached Golgotha and put the cross down, did he leave? No. He stayed, and watched, and became a believer. And that’s where his story really begins. One story leads to another story, and to the next story.

NEXT, Week 3 The NEXT Generation Formerly known as Student Takeover, our NEXT Generation weekend is meant to display Oak Pointe’s ministries to those under 25 - the present and future leaders of our church.

NEXT, Week 2 The Next Decade Looking back at the past 2 decades, one as a portable church, one in the building, there are so many "God" stories - times when He has done amazing things in and through Oak Pointe. This week, Bob casts vision for the 3rd Oak Pointe decade, and invites us to ‘dream forward’ of what might be NEXT for God’s church.