by OakAdmin | Nov 16, 2019 | Assurance of Salvation, Comfort and Grief, Famous Writers, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel
John Bunyan is rightly famous for writing The Pilgrim’s Progress while in prison for preaching the gospel. This allegory of Pilgrim’s journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City recount’s Bunyan’s experience. At first, like...
by OakAdmin | Oct 26, 2019 | Global Missions, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, Video Messages
When Isaiah the prophet had an encounter with God, he presented himself saying, “Here am I. Send me.” When Saul the pharisee had an encounter with Jesus, he was transformed into a zealous missionary (and renamed Paul). The Christ-follower who healed Saul...
by OakAdmin | Sep 26, 2019 | Darin's Blog, Open the Bible, Spiritual Growth, The Gospel, Theology, Video Messages
“Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves...
by OakAdmin | Sep 14, 2019 | Church News, End Times, Theology
The EFCA Statement of Faith was just updated in June of 2019 to state: 9. We believe in the personal, bodily Premillennial and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed...
by OakAdmin | Aug 29, 2019 | Comfort and Grief, Darin's Blog, Life Stories
I have never heard anyone say, “The deepest and rarest and most satisfying joys of my life have come in times of extended ease and earthly comfort.” Nobody says that. It isn’t true. What’s true is what Samuel Rutherford said when he was put in the cellars of...
