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"meditate on it day and night"

Joshua 1-5 was today's reading. The phrases that sort of hanged in the air for us as we read this evening were from chapter 1, verse 8:

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.

I was also encouraged by God's continual exhortation for Joshua and the people of Israel to be "strong and very courageous". In fact, I focused on those words as I prayed for Brock and Kaylee tonight. I was compelled to pray that they would refuse to embrace a "safe religion", but instead be risk-takers for the Kingdom of God. And yes, I do recognize the possible implications of such a prayer. It is possible that one of my children will come to me one day in the next 15 years or so and tell me they are moving to a third-world country or to a dangerous tribe or people group because the call of God on their life is to preach the gospel.

Erwin McManus, in his book The Barbarian Way, says "If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished. We must refuse to look to Jesus for comfort and safety, but rather to lead us where he needs us most and where we can accomplish the most good.

+ + + Lord, give me the courage and the faith to pray this prayer for my children, and to really desire it to come to pass. Help me to love them enough--to love You enough--to be able to pray it with all my heart. That they would seek to have You lead them to wherever you need them most, and to wherever they can accomplish the most good for Your kingdom. + + +

Week 1 Bible Reading Plan for Oasis

If you are following the Oasis Bible reading plan, here is what it looks like for this week.

Sunday:  Romans 1-2
Monday:  Genesis 1-3
Tuesday:  Joshua 1-5
Wednesday:  Psalms 1-2
Thursday:  Job 1-2
Friday:  Isaiah 1-6
Saturday:  Matthew 1-2

At the end of this week you will have read 22 chapters of the Bible. Just in case you happen to sit in front of the computer for most of your day, here is a quick link to today's reading. Bookmark that web site, or simply do a search on the bottom of the righthand column on this page. There are several different translations to choose from.

Enjoy reading the Words of God!!!

Monday, Week 1: Genesis 1-3

In yesterday's worship gathering I presented a challenge to the Oasis church: to read the Bible every day following our own "Read The Bible In A Year" Plan. This past weekend I created a Bible-reading plan for each family/person to take home and follow throughout the year, and I encourage everyone to take the challenge with us.

From time to time each week I will blog on the reading of the day. Each day of the week we will read from a different section of the Bible, covering seven different sections throughout the week: The Epistles (letters), Books of the Law, History Books, Psalms, Books of Poetry, Books of Prophecy, and the Gospels. This will hopefully work toward breaking up the monotony that may come while reading some of the "harder to read" books of the Bible (books with lots of geneaologies and lists).

You can download a PDF of the Oasis Bible Reading Plan here. If you don't think you will be able to keep up and finish the entire Bible in a year, then work at your own pace. Remember, the most important thing is that we become consistent with personal Bible reading and study. The goal of this plan is to help you develop a habit. This is a habit that you will never regret starting.

GENESIS 1-3
Today's reading was from the first three chapters of the Bible. Our family chose to read it together before Brock and Kaylee's bedtime. To make things easier for Brock and Kaylee to grasp and remain interested (3 chapters can be a long reading for children, but they both stayed right with it, asking lots questions along the way) we read from the New Living Translation. It is a very readable translation if you are unfamiliar with the Bible.

One question that came up was how God created LIGHT on day ONE, but He did not create the SUN until day FOUR. I asked Brock, "So where do you suppose the light came from?" He answered, "From God. Because doesn't the Bible also say that He is the light that came into the world?"

I smiled from ear to ear. There are lots of things my son has done that have made me smile in his seven years of existence. But to hear him beginning to develop a theology of the greatness of God, now that just takes the cake!

Fishes & Loaves

Last Sunday in our Oasis gathering I led the brief devotional we typically have before we share in participating in communion and the bringing of our offerings. You can download and listen to that talk below. I have also included a link to our March Financial Newsletter that we call Ministry Update. This newsletter is designed to do a couple of things:

• To inform the Oasis body of how we are utilizing the tithes and offerings that are given
• To encourage you, inspire you, and challenge you in areas of financial giving and commitment to the ministry of Oasis

One thing we have not been very forward about at Oasis is the issue of finances, tithing, or giving. Although there has been a pure motive for not focusing a lot of attention in this area, it would be a great tragedy if we overlooked it completely. Giving and tithing is not something that only the "extra committed" people do. In fact, it is never intended to be viewed as an extra, or separate issue involved with following Jesus.

Most everyone would agree that worship is central to being a Christian. God created human beings with a purpose: to worship -- to give honor and worth and glory to Him. Our entire lives are involved in these things. Every aspect of who we are is involved in this worship of God.

It is a beautiful thing when the people of God begin to understand this, and they trust God with everything in their lives, including their incomes -- regardless of how big or small those might be.

Just last night I was talking with a friend on the telephone who told me of two separate events in his life that occurred after making the commitment to trust God and to give Him the first portion of his paycheck. One was an unforeseen meeting with a person who offered him some extra work during the summer, which would bring in 75 to 100-fold what he originally committed to give. The other was a phone call from his insurance company telling him he is overpaid and he therefore did not need to send the next check -- and this came the day after sacrificially giving an offering to God.

I am not saying that every story will be like his. But I do know that this is the one area in Scripture where God gives His people permission to "test" Him. Malachi 3:10 says:

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

"Test" (Hebrew: "Bachan") means to examine, try, or prove. God proves His faithfulness when His people sacrificially give toward His purposes.

Finally, I have some exciting news to share with you. As you will notice in the column on the front page of the financial newsletter, we have set a goal for our 2006 budget for Oasis. How that goal breaks down on a weekly scale is that we, as a church, would receive an average of $1,340.90 per offering. Well, this past Sunday our offering was an exact $1,346.00 ($5.10 above the weekly goal).

This tells me two things. First, it tells me we CAN do it. There is no reason our budget goal cannot be reached because the Oasis people proved that it can be reached this past Sunday. Besides, I am a firm believer that God enjoys taking us to places where our faith will be stretched. And it is there that He moves His mighty hand and does what we see to be nearly impossible. Secondly, our offering last Sunday tells me that we will most likely surpass our goal throughout the year 2006, because this is only March and we have already proved that we can reach the goal.

I am so thankful for what God is doing with this family we have named "Oasis". You are a delight to my soul. You are a special people. I love you dearly.

- Chris (or, as I was so affectionately referred to as by one of our members this week, "Pastor C.")

Click here to download the March 2006 Financial Newsletter.

Click here to listen to the brief talk on giving.

Read Your Bible

One of the things I am working on this week is designing a "Read Through the Bible in a Year" plan specifically for our Oasis family.

I doubt if any believer in Jesus would deny that reading the Bible is vital to our maturity in Christ, and I would venture to say that every believer has the desire, or the "want-to", to read scripture. But if you are like the average American Christian, there is a good chance that you do not pick up your Bible except for on Sunday morning as you are heading out of the house, or maybe during the mid-week Bible study you attend, or perhaps also during a crisis you may be facing. I am not suggesting that this is the pattern for YOU specifically. I am just stating that it is a fact that the average American believer does not read his/her Bible with any kind of consistency.

Well, I would like to commit to help remedy this, if in fact, it is true of anyone in the Oasis family.

One commentator of the Bible whose works I am reading regularly these days is John Stott. I admire Stott's respect for the scripture and it's authority in our lives. He says the following:

Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. When Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy to the effect that human beings do not live by bread only but by God’s Word, he was asserting that the Word of God is just as necessary for spiritual health as food is for bodily health. I am not now thinking of remote Christian tribes people into whose language the Bible has not yet been translated, nor of illiterate people... I am thinking rather about ourselves. Our problem is not that the Bible is unavailable to us, but that we do not take advantage of its availability. We need to read and meditate on it daily, to study it in a fellowship group and to hear it expounded during Sunday Worship. Otherwise we shall not grow. Growth into maturity in Christ depends upon a close acquaintance with, and a believing response to, the Bible. [God’s Book For God’s People by John Stott, p. 76]

So I suppose one of the things I should maybe include in this reading plan is a checklist of things to help us re-orient our lives to help make Bible-reading a priority that we look forward to every day. I know we are all very busy. We have work, and families to care for, and bills to pay, and groceries to shop for, and houses to clean, and meals to cook, etc. and etc. At the end of all these things we are tired, and so we take some "down time", maybe an hour or two of TV, or a little mindless-internet browsing, or a game of Texas Hold'em. After that it's time for bed. Even if we tried to open the Bible by that time we would never get through 3 verses before our heads are slumped over the page and we're slobbering all over it.

So I do understand. But I also know that we are a flexible people. We do find ways to rearrange our lives to include something new that we deem important. So I am convinced we can all do this, regardless of your schedule. Even if it means we must substitute this in place of something that is already a regular, daily occurance for you. Meaning, literally, you sacrifice something from your current schedule to input Bible reading in it's place.

I will give you an example. Those who know me well know that I love the sitcom Seinfeld. Our cable company plays old Seinfeld reruns every night at 11:30. This is about the time that I am just getting ready to go to bed. Well, a couple of months ago I noticed that I had not been giving any time to read the Bible simply for pleasure, or personal growth and maturity. Most of my reading was strictly to study for a sermon or a teaching I was developing. This is a different kind of study. What I was lacking was the personal study that propelled my growth and relationship with God. So I began doing that at 11:30pm rather than watching the old Seinfeld reruns. And guess what... I haven't felt any sense of loss by missing the Seinfeld reruns, nor have I felt like something was lacking in my life because I substituted Bible-reading in it's place.

I know what some may be thinking right now. "Come on, surely it's okay to have some 'down-time', isn't it Chris? Let up a little."

Of course I believe in recreation, rest, and down-time. I am not saying that those are wrong. We all need those. But I do not believe Bible-reading and "down-time" are in conflict with one another. Only if you view Bible-reading as a "chore" will you have that sort of attitude. Don't read your Bible just for the following reasons:

• to try and learn something new...
• to get an answer to a problem or a question...
• to prepare for a lesson...
• to fulfill an obligation...
• to do research on a topic...

Read the Bible just because you love Jesus! Read it for your own good pleasure. It is not just to be analyzed and broken down into pieces. We do that plenty enough whenever we are together in our gathered study times. When you read it, read it like a romance novel. Turn every page with the anticipation of what is to come. And don't worry about "getting done". Start and stop as you wish.

I know some people like to have a plan. It helps to be able to see where you are going. You can set goals easily when it is laid out in front of you. So I hope to have our Oasis Bible Reading Plan completed and ready to distribute in a week or two.

If any of you have a story or advice on how you have grown in reading the Bible, please comment and share it.

Thoughts for Romans 2

Romans 2:1-5

“Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things. Do you suppose, O man – you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself – that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.” (Romans 2:1-5, ESV)

The Tarnishing Effect of Hypocrisy:

In the text cited above Paul deals with what has become a rather popular cliché in the Christian vernacular. The issue at hand is that of hypocrisy. This is a sensitive topic for one very simple reason: no one is in a hurry to admit to, and put on display, the fundamental faults in their character. Most people would be willing to make some general concessions about their flaws but a far lesser number would actually be willing to admit the extent to which this internal breakdown goes. I think this is because most people would like to believe that, for the most part, people are fundamentally good. This begs the question, “Do we really buy into the notion presented thus far in Romans that people are fundamentally unrighteous and in being such are fundamentally in a sinful state of depravity outside of Christ?” In other words, do we doubt that we are sinners? I think we do doubt it. I think this is one of the reasons why Paul is spending so much time lingering on our sinful state in this rather lengthy section of scripture. It could very easily be said that if you had to pin down a few overriding points from Romans 1:18-3:20 you could essentially sum it up with this statement: We are unrighteous but God is righteous and just. That was easy to say and it is easy to see in the text but Paul really hammers on example after example in illustrating this concept to us because I think Paul understood that people do actually doubt the depth of their own unrighteousness in sin. So keeping that point in mind we can very easily apply it to the text immediately at hand in Romans 2:1-5. 

I titled this section “The Tarnishing Effect of Hypocrisy” because of Romans 2:24. This verse states, “For as it is written, ‘The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’” This is Paul’s frightening conclusion to the consequence of hypocrisy. Up to this verse Paul is thundering away on the behavior of the Jew, who should know better, when he suddenly arrives at his monumental summation of consequence. What we see here is that by our actions as Christians, people not only draw conclusions about us as individuals but they also develop a certain way of thinking about the nature of God. How bone rattling is it to think that because of our sinful actions we cause people to blaspheme the name of God. I know many people who have very odd opinions about God that are not based on what the Bible has to say about God but rather they base their opinions on their experience and interaction with Christians. It is unnerving to consider what our false understandings about God could potentially do to others who are in need of the Gospel that is revealing the righteousness of God. I believe this is a powerful commission for us to choose our words carefully when we speak of God to others as well as to carefully shape our knowledge of God through God’s perspective and not our own. If not we run the risk of being responsible for the name of God being “blasphemed” among the non-Christian world. 

Condemning Yourself in the Condemnation of Others:

Let’s begin by breaking down this text a little at a time. “Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. Human beings are full of subtle contradictions that often go by our own noses without catching the scent of our own confutations. For example, let’s say you’re talking to a group of friends and you hear that someone has said something malicious about you. You retort by saying something malicious about them. Did you catch the contradiction that just took place? By matching insult for insult a cycle ensues where no one comes out looking very respectable. For years I’ve heard parents say to their children, “Don’t call somebody a name just because they called you a name. That makes you no better than them.” Now it might seem somewhat juvenile to quote such a seemingly elementary example but I think it really drives home the point Paul is making here in a very practical way. Paul is giving us a very careful caution here not to boast in our own sense of self righteousness because we essentially have no place to do such a thing. I have often found it to be true in my own life that whenever I judged or criticized another it was often unfairly or without all the facts and proper consideration that the matter deserved. Therefore by judging others on what I felt to be my own sound moral code of ethics I, in fact, illustrated the depth of my own unrighteousness without being entirely aware of it. 

The Righteous Judgment of God:

We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things. Do you suppose, O man – you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself – that you will escape the judgment of God? The wording that Paul uses here just startled me somewhat. I’m not clearly sure why but the phrase, “We know the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things” just stood out in full 3-D. We have spent much time in our discourse on Romans thus far discussing the righteousness of God versus the unrighteousness of humanity. Within that sphere of discussion has been the issue of God’s just judgments. I love that Paul says this in a very matter of fact fashion here because I believe he means us to connect the dots with what he has said thus far with the point that he is currently making. Romans 1:18-32 is the perfect illustration of how God’s justice pours out on the unrighteous and it should come as no surprise to us here in Romans 2:2-3 that the judgment of God would pour out on us for the hypocrisy of judging others as though we have some righteousness of our own granting to do so. Since we have no righteousness of our own and all righteousness is derived from God we should always keep at the forefront of our minds that God’s judgment is real for those who are stubbornly insistent on doing things from “me-centered” perspectives rather than “God-centered” perspectives. 

God’s Incredible “Forbearance”:

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? In the New American Standard Bible (NASB) the word “tolerance” is used in place of the word “forbearance”. Both words, however, mean the same thing. If you have read the entire Bible you will know that God has long endured a stubborn and contrary people. If God were to give us our due we would be dead but instead He has chosen to give us His forbearance. Notice that Paul doesn’t say that God merely has a little kindness to give. Paul describes God’s kindness as rich. However, we must not settle our minds into a reward-centered philosophy where God’s kindness is intended to make our lives complete with the granting of our wants. Paul is very quick to establish the reason as to why God’s kindness is so rich and why He has chosen to endure stubborn and contrary people. “God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.” So God’s kindness is not about seeing your dreams come true. God’s kindness is about you seeing the depth of your own sinful condition and acknowledging, then honoring, the God that is above all of your depravity. 

Paul’s Unflinching Word of Caution:

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”  Everything we do now has a consequence. This is a practical life lesson that, hopefully, many of us have learned by now. There is nothing that will transpire in your life that doesn’t have some kind of positive or negative effect. This means that one day we will have to answer for our actions. If you continue to read on past verse 5 Paul says, “He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who dos evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.” How we conduct our lives has implications towards our future. This is why it is so central to live our lives from a God centered perspective. Our perspective just messes things up. Why? Because we are fundamentally unrighteous and disordered without the righteousness of God. I know it seems like we’re just killing this point but I honestly think that it cannot be stressed enough. Be mindful of your entire life, both private and public, because the whole of our lives is on display before God and there is no part of it that we can conceal from the penetrating eyes of God. This is not a statement that is meant to drive you into guilt-fueled actions. This is a statement that I want you to take as an encouragement to grow closer to God. 

To support that last thought I want to leave you with Romans 8:3-5, “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”   

And He Set Me On Fire

This morning in our Oasis gathering we had a great time. Here is a recorded portion of our worship time together.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Here's a little story about the man who is behind this date in our calendar. (Yes, it actually does have to do with much more than shamrocks, happy hour, drinking dark-colored beer, and pinching classmates and colleagues if they fail to adorn some form of green in their wardrobe).

Suffering, Prosperity, & God's Sovereignty

Last week I heard an interesting question asked on a radio program and I thought the answer given was tremendous, so I decided when I heard it that I would try and relay it as accurately as possible this week if I found time. Well, I have a few minutes...

The question was on the issue of suffering as it relates to the sovereignty of God, and it went something like this: In the Old Testament it appears that Israel is blessed with health and prosperity for following God, but in the New Testament the call is to participate in the sufferings of Christ. What's up with that?

Just one example:

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.  But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.  If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.  If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.  However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.  For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?  And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"  So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.  (1 Peter 4:12-19)

Here was the answer as best as I can remember it. The question is understandable how someone might come to that conclusion, but it's not quite as simple as it is stated. The reason being because in both the Old Testament and the New Testament the people of God are blessed, and in both the OT and the NT the people of God suffer. In the OT God does show to his historic people, Israel, a high standard and correlation between obedience and blessing. However, over and over and over again in the Old Testament you find passages like Habakkuk 3:17-18:

"Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation."

If a text like that exists in the Old Testament we must then examine it in light of the whole Old Testament and conclude that every time there is prosperity in the Old Testament it is not an end in itself, and neither is prosperity a proof of God's blessing. That's what the book of Job is all about. Job's friends--Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar--are getting it wrong by suggesting to Job that he must have done some terribly wicked things for all the bad things to be happening to him and all of the suffering he was enduring. Job's response to them is profound. He tells them just walk down the streets of the world and you will see people all over the world prospering, and there are good people who are suffering. That's Old Testament. So if you look at it altogether, you see both: prosperity given to obedience, and you also have many obedient people suffering. it is simply up to the sovereignty of God.

What seems to be clear in the New Testament is that God is no longer dealing with a particular ethnic group of people (the Jews) who have a "come and see" religion as they prosper and display to the world what God is like. Rather, it is a "go and tell" religion, which is described much in a "war-like" lifestyle, where we are to lay down our prerogatives, our plans, our desires, our privileges, and our comforts--and take the gospel to the world, show them the path of the cross of Jesus Christ, and tell them of the promise of everlasting joy and life in the age to come.

It is very important for us to understand these differences. The New Testament "people of God", on this side of the cross, are no longer a people of God who are ethnic and political, but we are a people who are scattered among all the nations. And now we display the glory of God in Christ because he has shown his glory most essentially through suffering.

The path to glory for Christ was the path of unjust suffering. As New Testament Christians, that's our path also. Our Lord endured suffering with perfect patience and was exalted to the highest point of glory. And he is our example of how to respond to suffering. That is the whole point of the 1 Peter passage above.

There are people in the church who do not believe that God allows suffering. They view it as cruel or in opposition to His character as a good Father. I disagree. I do not believe that by allowing fallen human beings to suffer that it must compromise God's Goodness or his character as a loving Father. Here is the main reason why.

"The LORD has established His throne in the heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all" (Psalm 103:19). God is sovereign. Which means he is in control. This is what the argument ultimately comes down to. Either He is in control or He is not. I believe the Bible affirms God's rule over all of humankind, over all of His created beings (including Satan), and over all circumstances.

Even though we may not understand (and in fact will not understand) how or why God does many of the things He does or allows the things he allows, I believe He is sovereign, in control, and in some sense the ultimate One who is behind everything. I believe this because that is what the Bible teaches. He does as He pleases (Psalm 115:3), and no one can stay His hand (Daniel 4:35). We don't have to understand it to believe it, and we have no right whatsoever to call God into OUR court of justice. God is just, holy, righteous and loving because that is who He is, and not because He conforms to any standard of ours. God IS the standard, and we must accept it.

I could stop there. But I will share a bit more.

Whenever someone asks the question, "How can you believe that God is loving whenever there is so much suffering in the world?" Or, "How can you believe that a loving God would allow such suffering to take place in the world?" I really believe the greater problem is in those questions. They are the wrong questions. We are consumed with US--with ourselves--so much that we completely miss the point.

The problem those kinds of questions is that they fail to understand the magnitude of fallen humanity and  sin. This is a great portion of the gospel that we tend to overlook in our evangelism. God is completely just in bringing disaster and calamity on the world because He is, in fact, just and righteous. We deserve nothing but wrath from Him for our sins, and we should be thankful that He's been as merciful as He has been.

When we receive mercy, that is exactly what it is--mercy. If we never received one ounce of mercy, then what we would be getting is justice. So, for anyone to cry "this is unfair", or, "God cannot be in this suffering or pain because it would not be right for a good God" is to suggest that we are somehow entitled to something. We are not entitled to perfect health. We are not entitled to great wealth and prosperity in this life. Whenever we receive such things it is an incredible act of God's grace and mercy, completely undeserved and completely up to His own good pleasure and sovereign will. he must receive all glory for such things. Likewise, whenever we are experiencing great pain and suffering... God still reigns. God is still glorified, and perhaps even more in our sufferings, as we identify with Christ in them (see 1 Peter 4). And yes, God is still in control. I trust Him. I need not understand why suffering exists. I have a sovereign God who makes everything glorious.

No Sermon Audio This Week (UPDATED)

Due to problems with our recording equipment we were unable to record the sermon from Romans 1:18-21 yesterday (March 12). However, the notes are very detailed and cover much of what was preached in the message. You can download the notes below. Chad Dodson will be preaching on the remaining verses of Romans chapter one this coming Sunday.

Romans 1:18-21 - "Knowing vs. Honoring the Living God" Study Notes

Although there is no recording from this week's Romans series, I have uploaded a sermon from last year that has not been uploaded to the internet until now. You can get it from our podcast, or by going directly to the Oasis Media page.