The Providence Podcast

Kindness Series: Podcast Speakers: Chris Oswald Dov Cohen Podcast Date: 23rd December 2024

New Men for the Messiah Series: John Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 22nd December 2024 Passage: John 1:12-13 ------------------- Today we’re beginning 21 weeks in John. The chapter begins with an emphasis on the cosmic Christ. 1:1-3, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and w...

The Messiah's Gift Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 15th December 2024 Passages: Psalm 2:8 Matthew 28:18-20 John 17:16 Ephesians 2:17-22 ------------------- Title: Christmas & the Church Text: Ephesians 2:17-22 No hoops! No hoops! That was the message given to the women attending the debut performance of Handel’s Messiah on April 13, 1742. Specifically, the women were asked to not we...

How to Commune with God Series: Podcast Speakers: Chris Oswald Dov Cohen Podcast Date: 12th December 2024

What to Do When You Disappoint Yourself Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 10th December 2024

Priest Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 8th December 2024 Passage: Exodus 40:12-15 ------------------- Text: Exodus 40:12-15 “Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. You shall bring his sons a...

Money & The Mission of God Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 1st December 2024 Passages: Exodus 35:1-36:38 2 Corinthians 8:1-9:15 ------------------- Title: Money & The Mission of God Text: Exodus 35-36, 2 Corinthians 8-9 One great privilege of preaching through the Old Testament is that we have the New Testament. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus talked about a scribe train...

Eldership Announcement Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 24th November 2024

Tell the Coming Generation Speaker: Steve Whitacre Sunday Morning Date: 17th November 2024 Passage: Psalm 78:1-72

Comfortable Certainty Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 13th November 2024 ------------------- How can a Christian experience what Martin Luther called "comfortable certainty" regarding the reality of their salvation?

Aaron's Failure of Nerve Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 10th November 2024 Passage: Exodus 32:1-35 ------------------- Title: Aaron’s Failure of Nerve Text: Exodus 32 The Golden Calf story is a leadership story. Everything pivots around the action/inaction of Aaron and Moses. While we can clearly see that the people hold significant responsibility for their actions, Aaro...

On Covetousness & Contentment Series: Exodus Sunday Morning Date: 27th October 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:17 ------------------- Our text for today is the 10th commandment which reads: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” Coveting could be de...

When a Snake Takes the Stand Series: Exodus Sunday Morning Date: 20th October 2024 Passages: Exodus 20:16 Deuteronomy 19:15-21 ------------------- Title: When A Snake Takes The Stand Text: Exodus 20:16, Deuteronomy 19:16-21 This week, I was browsing through a collection of essays written by the great Sinclair Ferguson. And landed on an essay on Satan entitled: Naming the Enemy At the beginning of...

Thou Shall Not Steal Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 13th October 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:15 ------------------- Introduction: What do we make of the relative agreement across cultures time and space on the 2nd tablet? That the world is built on universal moral laws that are as fixed and unbreakable as the physical laws. The second table (commandments 5-10) is simply the...

Are Legalism and Licentiousness Really Equal Threats? Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 9th October 2024 ------------------- In this episode of the podcast, Pastor Chris discusses how older generations handling the 10 Commandments tended to apply these commands to many more areas of lives than modern Christians do. How this seems to be consistent with Jesus' own approach (found i...

You Were Made For Love Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 6th October 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:14 ------------------- Title: You Were Made For Love Text: Exodus 20:14 Introduction: This week I was thinking about Faraday cages. Einstein had three pictures of three scientists in his study, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. Faraday was a great experimental...

Life & Death: Motive, Means, & Opportunity Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 29th September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:13 ------------------- You shall not murder. – Ex 20:13 If you ever have the power and the desire to take someone’s life unjustly, do not do it. There are various pieces of this we could talk about.  For instance, the word “unjustly.” If you ever...

Growing for the Glory of God Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 15th September 2024 Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:15

Rest in a Busy World Series: Exodus Sunday Morning Date: 8th September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:8-11 ------------------- The Revolutionary Nature of the 10 Commandments Because the 10 Commandments have become so ingrained in Western civilization, it is difficult for the modern reader to grasp how different this all was. This is a key burden of Joy Davidman’s book about the 10 Commandments, Smoke on...

Verbal Vandalism & The Third Commandment Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 1st September 2024 Passage: Exodus 20:7 ------------------- Introduction: “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” – Matthew 12:36-37 How does that make you feel? I...

Ode to Sovereign Joy (Sermon Remix) Podcast Date: 19th August 2024 ------------------- This is a mashup of Ode to Joy and one of the first sermons I heard from Douglas Wilson (at the 2013 Desiring God Pastor's Conference). Though I had read him for a long time prior to this, I had never heard him speak. This was a lecture Wilson gave regarding the soteriology of CS Lewis.

Two Mountains: One Mandate Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 18th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 19:17-20:3 ------------------- Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and...

How to Outgrow Grumbling Sunday Morning Date: 11th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 15:22-25 ------------------- Title: Growing Past Grumbling Text: Exodus 15:22-25 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; t...

The Lord is a Man of War, Part 2 Series: Exodus Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 4th August 2024 Passage: Exodus 15:1-27 ------------------- Call to Worship: Palm 52 Text: Exodus 15 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength a...

Insider & Outsider Status. AKA: How to Trick a Feminist Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 1st August 2024