The Providence Podcast

Understanding Verbal Persecution Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 14th March 2025

Five Questions for Pastoral Side Quests Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 14th March 2025

Reading that Russian at 5 A.M. Series: Podcast Speaker: Chris Oswald Podcast Date: 13th March 2025 ------------------- What do we make of the newly formed pro-Trump accelerationist coalition? What is God up to this time?

Suffering is a Showcase for God Series: John Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 16th February 2025 Passage: John 9:1-41

Eternal Divergence Series: John Speaker: Dov Cohen Sunday Morning Date: 9th February 2025 Passage: John 8:1-59

No One Ever Spoke Like This Man Series: John Speaker: Dov Cohen Sunday Morning Date: 2nd February 2025 Passage: John 7:1-53

The Menu is Not the Meal Series: John Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 26th January 2025 Passage: John 5:44-6:71 ------------------- Text: John 5:44-6:71 Title: The Menu is Not the Meal Introduction: This is Not a Pipe (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) Rene Margritte. 1929 Treachery of Images The Map is Not the Territory Alfred Korzybski The Menu is Not the Meal Allan Watts Signifier / Signified...

Dov & Chris Talk Marriage Series: Podcast Speaker: Dov Cohen Podcast Date: 21st January 2025

When Depravity Meets Divinity Series: John Speaker: Chris Oswald Sunday Morning Date: 19th January 2025 Passage: John 5:1-29 ------------------- Introduction: Children’s Hospital, Beauty & Brokeness Everything that takes place in Jerusalem is like that. Especially what we see today in 5:1-2 “After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by...

Good Wine & the Grace of God Series: John Speaker: Dov Cohen Sunday Morning Date: 29th December 2024 Passage: John 2:1-25

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...