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Scripture Text: Luke 11:1-13 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection Hudson Taylor, Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make...

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Scripture Text: Luke 10:25-37 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection David Brooks, How to Know a Person You may find the whole idea of God ridiculous, but I ask you to believe in the concept of a soul. You may just be chatting with someone about the weather, but I ask you to assume that the person in front of you contains some piece of themselves that has no weight, size, color, or shape yet gives them...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Scripture Text: Luke 9:1-36 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection Hartmut Rosa, Two Versions of the Good Life & Two Forms of Fear When something really touches us, we can never know or predict in advance what we will become as a result of this. J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Luke Thousands in every age of the church spend their lives in this way and never come to the point of drawing near to God...

Scripture Text: Colossians 1:15-20 Andy Tobin Quotes for Reflection David Wells Paul’s Christology, therefore, also encompasses the language of the kingdom of God in the Gospels. To believe on Christ is to enter the kingdom and is to become a part of the age to come. Paul, however, expands this thought far beyond the personal and ecclesiastical. If Christ is the Lord whom every believer serves, th...

Read: Matthew 1:18-25 Reflect: 1. How does thinking of Jesus as Emmanuel impact your life right now? 2. Where have you seen God's hand in your personal life history? 3. How do you rely on the Holy Spirit in your vocation? 4. Wherever God has dwelled has always been the most holy place. And as the Holy Spirit dwells in us, we are now the most holy place for our culture. How does this compel you thi...

Scripture Text: Matthew 1:18-25 Quincy Robinson

The Oaks Parish Podcast Special thanks to Alex Wenig, Director of Music at Oaks Parish, for her contribution of music to the podcast! From “Offering” © Alexandra Adkins, 2011: Sonata For 2 Violins In D Major, Op. 3, No. 6: III. Largo (Jean-Marie Leclair, 18th century). Read: Philippians 2:1-11 Reflect: 1. What is most striking to you about God's humility in the incarnation? 2. How have you seen th...

Scripture Text: Philippians 2:1-11 Scripture Text: Philippians 2:1-11 Quotes for Reflection N.T. Wright, Philippians for Everyone The eternal son of God, the one who became human in and as Jesus of Nazareth, regarded his equality with God as committing him to the course he took: of becoming human, of becoming Israel’s anointed representative, of dying under the weight of the world’s evil. This is...

Read: John 1:1-14 Reflect: 1. What are you searching for in this season? 2. Why is John’s term “the Word” (logos) helpful to anyone searching for spiritual answers? 3. Where are you looking for God to show up? 4. Where do you need to yield to God? 5. John writes that we become the God’s children by his power. How does this reality help you meet a pressing concern right now and respond in a fresh w...

Scripture Text: Johan 1:1-21 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection N.T Wright, John for Everyone Whatever else John is going to tell us, he wants us to see his book as the story of God and the world, not just the story of one character in one place and time. This book is about the creator God acting in a new way within his much-loved creation. It is about the way in which the long story which began in...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Special thanks to Alex Wenig, Director of Music at Oaks Parish, for her contribution of music to the podcast! From “Offering” © Alexandra Adkins, 2011: Sonata For 2 Violins In D Major, Op. 3, No. 6: III. Largo (Jean-Marie Leclair, 18th century). Read: Isaiah 9:1-7 Reflect: 1. In what ways do you see a stark contrast between the government of Isaiah's child king and the king...

Scripture Text: Isaiah 9:1-7 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas Look up, you whose gaze is fixed on this earth, who are spellbound by the little events and changes on the face of the earth. Look up to these words, you who have turned away from heaven disappointed. Look up, you whose eyes are heavy with tears and who are heav...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Scripture Text: Luke 8:1-21 Andy Tobin Quotes for Reflection J. C. Ryle The last caution contained in the parable of the sower, is to beware of being content with any religion which does not bear fruit in our lives. Our Lord tells us that the hearts of those who hear the Word aright, are like good ground. The seed of the gospel sinks down deeply into their wills, and produces practical results in...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

*We apologize that a couple minutes are missing from the beginning of this replay, but jump right in for the majority of the sermon! Scripture Text: Luke 7 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change,...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Scripture Text: Luke 6 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke The Christian must be altogether another style of man. His feelings of love and his deeds of kindness must be like his Master’s – free and gracious. He must let men see that he loves others from higher principles than the ungodly do, and that his charity is not confined to those from whom h...

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Scripture Text: Luke 5 Quincy Robinson

The Oaks Parish Podcast Bryan Buck & Martha Van Houten

Scripture Text: Luke 4:1-30 Bryan Buck Quotes for Reflection J.C. Ryle, The Gospel of Luke The first event recorded in our Lord’s history, after His baptism, is His temptation by the devil. From a season of honor and glory He passed immediately to a season of conflict and suffering. First came the testimony of God the Father: “You are My beloved Son.” Then came the sneering suggestion of Satan: “I...