"So where does this leave us in terms of the core value Building Community and today specifically, Building Unified Community. For me, the key phrase from the core value is…
Karl Barth, a theologian in Germany during WWII, once “advised young theologians ‘to take [their] Bible and take [their] newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from [the] Bible.’” His…
"Robert Schnase, author of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, recalls a story about a congregation, excellent at hospitality, which grows steadily for years only to see their attendance leveling off. The leadership…
The process of developing core values should have been a process which pushed you all to the core of the Christian Way. What do we find at our core, who do…
We often interpret Paul’s call to leave behind worry through an attitude of gracious prayer as a call to individual prayer, and that through such prayer, the petitioner will receive…
As a child arguing with parents about a rule of the house, many of us probably heard the clear proclamation: “As long as you live under my roof, you’ll do…
Righteousness does not come from us, it comes from God. God qualifies us. I made reference to the story of the rich young ruler who goes away disheartened because he…
Download here: https://www.oaktonbrethren.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Sermon-2019-09-01.mp3 "Paul tells the church in Philippi that they should shine like stars in contrast to the dark and crooked world around them. This call to be a…
Download link: https://www.oaktonbrethren.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sermon-2019-08-25.mp3 "Rather I prefer commentator Gordon Zerbe’s paraphrase of Philippians 1:28 which reads, “For although your opponents see your loyalty to the gospel as worthy of and inevitably…
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