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Loading ...I’m starting a new message series tomorrow. It has a NASCAR flavor to it. We’ll be looking at five spiritual practices over the next five Sunday’s.
Here are the dates and titles:
1/3 – The Ragged Edge (Solitude)
1/10 – The Power Source (Prayer)
1/17 – The Pits (Bible study)
1/24 – The Groove (Service)
1/31 – The Winner’s Circle (Celebration)
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In chapter 1, Russell encourages preachers to use a lot of Scripture in their sermons. He shares a story about a preacher that came to his home church growing up:
Once an arrogant young preacher delivered a sermon in our church that contained almost no Scripture. My mother, who rarely spoke a negative word to anyone, [...]
I’m starting a new message series this Sunday on prayer. We’ll spend eight weeks unpacking “The Lord’s Prayer.” I asked Beth if eight weeks was too long. She said, “Not if the sermons are good.” No pressure, right? Below are the dates and titles. Hope you’ll join us at OCC.
3/8 – Lord, Teach Us to Pray
3/15 – Our Father
3/22 - Hallowed [...]
David Faust, one of my college professors and current President at CCU, writes a weekly column in the Lookout magazine. This magazine is available at OCC every Sunday for FREE at the south Welcome Center. Anyway, he wrote an article a few weeks ago that connects really well with my message from Sunday. Click here [...]
I referred to a news story in my message Sunday about a couple that had sex for 101 consecutive days. Click here to read about it and watch an interview from the Today show.
It doesn’t appear that this couple are Christ-followers. However, some of the things they learned from their experience is really good stuff.
I [...]
This Sunday we’ll be starting a new message series on sex. Check out the series image and other info below. Hope you’ll join us! Click here to visit our church website.
We live in a sex-saturated society that pretends to know everything there is to know about sex. But God knows more because He created it [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be starting a new message series called “Abide.” We’ll be focusing on John 15:1-17 for five Sunday’s. Below are dates and titles. Overall “seed thoughts” for this series originated in Bruce Wilkerson’s book Secrets of the Vine. Hope you’ll join us at OCC.
1/4 – Fruit-Bearing
1/11 – No Fruit
1/18 – Fruit
1/25 – More [...]
This Sunday I’m starting a new message series called “Through the Eyes of…” We’re going to look at the story of Jesus’ birth through the eyes of Mary (12/7), Joseph (12/14), the shepherds (12/21), and God (12/24). Hope you and your family will join us at OCC this Christmas season. See you Sunday!
We continued our journey through the Gospel of Mark on Sunday. I’m really enjoying it. Hope you are too. Click on the link below to view my message outline. This is what I carry in my Bible to the pulpit. The yellow highlights are for the guys running PowerPoint. They follow along and make sure [...]
Didn’t Isaac do a wonderful job Sunday? Below is a recap of my notes.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our [...]