Rabbit Trail Podcast with Pastor Greg Harris from OBCC

This week Greg, Brent and Stephan are chasing questions on what does it mean to have a deep church, meditation and a couple really big listener questions. Join us as we chase the truth wherever it runs. What do we think a deep church is? What is meditation in the Bible and how do you do it? Are we allowed to pray for the dead? Do the dead get another chance to be saved after they die? John 17:21 i...

In this mega-episode we take on some big topics, like how do Christians shape their world and thus the world, and then a listener asks how do we love our enemies in light of the evil's done in Israel? INTRO A little more on last weeks question about being cursed. What does it mean to bear fruit? How do we really bear good fruit, and why would we want to? What are the spheres of cultural influence?...

Episode 89: Our Q & A Episode About Freewill & Predestination Verses: How do you talk to someone who Believes that God has Cursed them and they are not meant to be Elect?  Watch the video podcast for this episode: https://youtu.be/0I-3foJxkrI Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obcc.church

Episode 88: This week join us as we discuss conversations about how to handle influences that are non-Christian, be they teachers, movies, or spouses. As a bonus we dive into proper introspection, obedience and respond to some listener's comments!  • Talking about teachers ancient vs modern. • How to filter through influences as a Christian. • As flawed people how do we examine ourselves without d...

Episode 87: Join us this week as we chase the truth around John 15 and the idea of abiding in Christ. We also answer a few listener questions about the Bible and Genesis 22. • According to John 15 will God condemn you for not bearing fruit? • Are the Core habits a checklist? • How have we all seen these core habits appear in our lives? • How did we get the books of our Bible? Was God involved in t...

Episode 86: In this episode we dive into the conversation about discipleship and the current issues we see with models. We also answer some listeners questions on angels and demons. What's up with calling it the Jesus Spiral? What do spirals have to do with discipleship? • How do we know if we are discipling our children well? • What is keeping people from really being disciples today? • Who has i...

Episode 85: Conversations on Communism and Community in Acts 2:42-46. This week we are answering some a couple listener questions and looking at the passage from the sermon, Acts 2:42-46, and we explore what does the text tell us about church and community. Does Philippians 1:14-15 indicate that we should be good with progressive churches, if they preach the gospel? What day or when did Satan Fall...

Episode 84: BONUS THE LIVE EVENT. If you missed out on the live event, jump in and join us as we answer live questions and have some fun. If you were there listen in and enjoy the memories!  Watch the video/live event here: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRtjRD6LLGE Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obcc.church

Episode 83: In this episode we review the history that led to Fundamentalism, and then we talk about what in the world is a worldview. Trust us when we said the rabbit ran down some deep holes! • What is the history that led to Fundamentalism. •. What is a Worldview? • How do we know our Worldview is right? (A talk on Evidentialism, Foundationalism, and Presuppositionalism). • How do we know our i...

Episode 82: We are chasing the truth as a we answer a couple listener answers and talk about how to face tragedy, grief and go through it well. What's up with head coverings in 1 Corinthians 10? Are we to do those today? If two people obey God's calling, will their reward be different if one is more successful than another? How do we handle tragedy and be with people who are going through horrible...

Episode 81: This week we chase the truth around single's ministries, rightly cooking goat and how to dress to impress God... What about single's ministries and why are they not as available in churches as they once were? What is the meaning behind Duet 14:21? How do we understand the term ephod? What's up with the other aspects of the High Priests Clothing? What were the Urim and the Thummim? In w...

Episode 80: We've hit 80 episodes and this week we take more listener questions and talk a bit more about the tabernacle. We hope you enjoy this weeks podcast! • Are all creatures before the fall vegetarian according to Genesis 1:30? • In the book of acts chapter 8, the Spirit doesn't come until Peter and John show up. What does this mean about the Spirit of God and salvation? • What happened with...

Episode 79: This week the team is back together and we discuss some great listener questions and more about the Tabernacle. Did people or animals die before the fall? What about dinosaurs? In Genesis 9, God says Noah can eat animals, does that mean everyone was vegetarian before? How does God view a pastor's suicide? What does it mean that women should remain silent in 1 Corinthians 14? What is th...

Episode 78: We are talking about the Tabernacle in Exodus 25. And without Brent, we venture into conversations about, "Sacred Space." Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obcc.church

Episode 77: Brent & Stephan Discuss The odd story in Exodus 34:29-35 of Moses Face glowing after he spoke with God. We answer the question of, "Why Moses Is depicted with horns on his head in many Renaissance pictures and statues such as Michael Angelo's Sculpture in Rome"? We also discus what exactly is the meaning of the word "Glory" in the Bible.  Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you...

Episode 76: Brent And Stephan discuss a series of listener questions from Revelation ch. 21 centered around the descriptions of the "New Eden" imagery. We also discuss Greg's Sermon on God being a "Jealous God". Also, "Isn't Jealousy a bad thing?"  Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obcc.church

Episode 74: This week we continue in Exodus 33. We chase down several questions: Where did Mary Veneration come from? What/who is the focus of our salvation and how does that change our view of heaven. Is there a contradiction in verses 11 and 23 when Moses sees God's face, but can't? Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obcc.church

Episode 73: We're chasing truths through Exodus 32 and the golden calf incident. This week we discuss: • How do our anxieties lead us to make bad spiritual decisions? • What is up with the Levites being ordained by their violence and David being denied by God to build the temple for his violence? • How does violence play into the Christian faith? Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! em...

Episode 75: Greg and Stephan take up the challenge of some listener questions and Exodus 34 without Brent! They talk about: Will the live version be a regular podcast or not? And can't Greg teach the guys how to use the Bumper? How do Adam and Eve work with ancient humans like Neanderthals and Denisovans?  Then we look at the various attributes of God from Exodus 34 Questions, comments? We'd love...

Episode. 72: We've got an announcement and a question from a listener about Moses. After that we dive in asking various questions about Exodus 24.  We talk about Moses writing the Pentateuch and how we got our Old Testament. We discuss verse 24:5 about the history of sacrifices and priests. We also discuss why do we need to go church or need pastors if we are all priests? We finally discuss 24:10...

Episode 71: Brent & Stephan answer several viewer questions on Mental Health and Discuss Last weeks Sermon concerning Mental Health and Children. The conversation was on everything from, "how to talk to Christians who don't believe we should see a therapist", Narcism, Depression and a whole host of other topics concerning our overall health.    Podcast References: • First In: Mental Health  https:...

Episode 70: We have some great questions from our listeners, and we talk about how to have conversations on sex and sexuality with our kids. How do I know God's will for my life? How do we understand God planning or predestining a group or individual to act in an evil way, and yet he punishes them for it? Why it is important to have regular talks with your kids about sex. How this affects single p...

Episode 69: In this episode we are examining the idea of Christian identity, and how to help our children actually have a strong clear one. We talk about God's frame for identity. We look at what we mean when Greg said in the message that we think we are God. We examine the roots of our modern idea of identity. We ask what is a Christian identity exactly? We also look at how to walk our children t...

Episode 68: In this Rabbit Trail we brought our Family Director Gina Vildibill to help us talk about how to handle our children's doubts. This week we run down a trail on: What are doubts? What's a scoffer? Why do parents struggle with their children's doubts? How do we interact with our children who may not believe like we do? Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrail@obc...

Episode 67: While we were talking about A.I., we had plenty of questions from listeners. We answer those and run all over the rabbit trails. Is it wrong to sneak a food into a Water Park?  Jehovah's Witnesses argue that the soul isn't immaterial, what do we think? What happens between death and the second coming? Is there purgatory? Questions, comments? We'd love to hear from you! email RabbitTrai...