Here are the passages and notes I shared with the family of OasisHD on Sunday night at our Hot august nights picnic. May our Heavenly Father use them for his glory!
I. Benefits in how we relate to God
1. We can speak and relate to God as a loving father
Galatians 4:6-7
6 And because you are [...]

Revelation 11 asks the question, “How do we measure the Church”? Join OasisHD and Pastor Jeff Ludington as we search the Scripture to answer the question.

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If humanity really is the one creation of God most like God (created in his image), than how can we love God without loving one another?

Have you ever met someone who simply has an internal drive to obey the law? I don’t mean someone who has not committed a felony recently, but someone who actually abides by all speed limits, doesn’t take paperclips home from work, and is truly honest on their taxes – just to use some examples. Let [...]

Jesus begins one of his greatest teaching moments of the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes. He starts with a series of beatitudes or blessings (ways in which we can have spiritual health). At first glance they seem to propose an ascetic way of life more common to a monk than a human being [...]

Who we follow will determine much about how we live, and in turn how we lead other people who watch us in the way we live.

Matthew 4:1-11
Rick Warren recently spoke at a pastor’s conference and said something about Jesus that I had never seen before.  He was talking about Jesus in the desert – during the temptation – and Rick said that Jesus was tempted just like we all are.  He went on to explain that statement, as I will [...]

I have never been a huge fan of the “Hour of Power” TV show (to date – a 40 year running Bible teaching ministry of Robert Schuller), but my parents were. It isn’t that there is anything wrong with it, it is just that it became popular a generation before me. However, as God often [...]

Matthew 2 is a very “Jewish” chapter in the Gospel narratives. What do I mean by that? Matthew is a Jewish man, writing to a primarily Jewish audience, trying to proclaim the Jewish Messiah to a Jewish nation, using Jewish Scripture: that’s what I mean. When this chapter is taught by any [...]

February 12th, 2010
Matthew 1:1-25
In theological circles today there are many debates about the focus of Jesus’ visit to humanity. Some call Jesus the second Moses (Liberation Theology); some call Jesus the One who came to conquer the stranglehold of evil (Christus Victor); others will say that Jesus came as a to buy back humanity [...]