Pastor Jake preached week 5 of our “Red Letters” series, going through 6 passages within the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Jesus’ sermon is kind of like a family meeting. The people listening have expressed interest in being His followers (disciples). Now He’s sitting them down and talking with them about what that means for their lives and how His representatives should compare to others in the world. He’s taking on relevant topic after topic; issue after issue – anger, lust, divorce, gree...
Oct 07, 2018•50 min
Pastor Jake preached week 4 of our “Red Letters” series which will have us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) for six weeks total. Jesus’ sermon is kind of like a family meeting. The people listening have expressed interest in being His followers (disciples). Now He’s sitting them down and talking with them about what that means for their lives and how His representatives should compare to others in the world. He’s taking on relevant topic after topic; issue after issue; sin after sin – an...
Sep 30, 2018•47 min
Pastor Jake preached week 2 of our “Red Letters” series which will have us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) for six weeks. Jesus’ sermon is kind of like a family meeting. The people listening have expressed interest in being His followers (disciples). Now He’s sitting them down and talking with them about what that means for their lives and how His representatives should compare to others in the world. He’s taking on relevant topic after topic; issue after issue; sin after sin – anger, l...
Sep 23, 2018•47 min
Pastor Jake preached week 2 of our “Red Letters” series which will have us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) for six weeks. Jesus’ sermon is kind of like a family meeting. The people listening have expressed interest in being His followers (disciples). Now He’s sitting them down and talking with them about what that means for their lives and how His representatives should compare to others in the world. He’s taking on relevant topic after topic; issue after issue; sin after sin – anger, l...
Sep 16, 2018•41 min
Pastor Jake preached week 2 of our “Red Letters” series which will have us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) for six weeks. Jesus’ sermon is kind of like a family meeting. The people listening have expressed interest in being His followers (disciples). Now He’s sitting them down and talking with them about what that means for their lives and how His representatives should compare to others in the world. He’s taking on relevant topic after topic; issue after issue; sin after sin – anger, l...
Sep 16, 2018•41 min
Pastor Jake kicked off our “Red Letters” series which will have us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) for six weeks. The idea is that when you look at those chapters in Matthew, you see a sea of red letters in your Bible. It’s the longest grouping of Jesus’ teaching in the Scriptures. We won’t hit every topic/passage in this series, but we will cover a lot. This sermon of Jesus’ is very direct and practical. For a while by this point, Jesus has been proclaiming to the people: “Repent for t...
Sep 09, 2018•44 min
Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.
Sep 02, 2018•45 min
Pastor Jake preached week 2 in our “Follow Me” series. The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” Does your life say the same thing? You can’t get around the “follow me” part of that. The truth is that everyone is involved in discipleship whether they realize it or not. It just may have nothing to do with Jesus. You are already a follower. The question is who are you following? You already have people following you. The question is which way are you leading the...
Aug 26, 2018•47 min
Pastor Jake started our new 3-wk series called “Follow Me”. The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” Does your life say the same thing? You can’t get around the “follow me” part of that. The truth is that everyone is involved in discipleship whether they realize it or not. It just may have nothing to do with Jesus. You are already a follower. The question is who are you following? You already have people following you. The question is which way are you leadin...
Aug 19, 2018•46 min
Pastor Jake preached the last message in our Summer series on the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 4:7-18. Pastor Jake shared that he’s been learning the guitar this year. He said on Sunday, “Here’s something I’ve learned about my guitar. It’s worthless if no one who knows how to play it ever picks it up. It just sits in the corner. It can’t do tricks. It can’t sweep the floor. It can’t answer questions like Alexa. It’s useless. If no one with even a little skill is ever...
Aug 12, 2018•49 min
Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 4:2-6. In this passage, the Apostle Paul give us direction about something we all struggle with: communication. He writes about communication with God (prayer) and communication with “outsiders” and unbelievers (evangelism).
Aug 05, 2018•46 min
Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.
Jul 29, 2018•46 min
Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 3:1-17. In this passage, the Apostle Paul does what many modern churches never do – he gets very specific about sin. He draws lines and gets detailed about what it looks like to be a Christ-follower and what it looks like to not be one. He warns, rebukes, and raises the standard. We may take this kind of correction from a doctor or a coach, but we’re rare...
Jul 22, 2018•54 min
Great Oaks Community Church Weekly Sermon Podcast.
Jul 15, 2018•57 min
On Sunday, Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 2:8-15. It is amazingly easy for people to be deceived and rest their lives on what will ultimately be nothing. We are so easily tricked! We’ll get distracted by whatever is new, shiny, and different. When someone runs up to us, points into the sky, and says “look!”, we almost always look. Some of us stare for hours at nothing. Some of us base ...
Jul 08, 2018•48 min
Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 2:1-7. In this message, Pastor Jake gave us 3 questions to ponder and reflect on that naturally rise to the surface from studying these 7 verses. The problem is that we live in a culture and a time that has sacrificed reflection for convenience and efficiency. Technology promises us that we will have more time, because tasks will take less time to complet...
Jul 01, 2018•47 min
Pastor Chris continued our Colossians series with part 4. He explained that as we find out what our thing is, we need to ask ourselves if we are using that thing to point people to Jesus.
Jun 24, 2018•44 min
Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. This week’s message was on Colossians 1:19-23. Pastor Jake told a story in his message on Sunday about a great and generous king whose people were evil, rebellious, and hated him. He sought peace with them, but everyone who carried his banner of peace was murdered. Finally, the king decided to go to the people himself to make peace. Some responded to his display of love and kindness, but the ...
Jun 17, 2018•40 min
Pastor Jake continued our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. Last week covered verses 1-14 in Colossians chapter 1. This week’s message was on just four verses – Colossians 1:15-18. The Apostle Paul is writing this letter to the Colossian church because Epaphras has come to him for help. There is a group of false teachers (Gnostics) attacking the new little church and it’s causing confusion among these young believers. They’re saying that they have spe...
Jun 12, 2018•44 min
Pastor Jake started our Summer series that will take us verse-by-verse through the book of Colossians. Week 1 covered verses 1-14 in Colossians chapter 1. The Apostle Paul is writing this letter to the Colossian church because Epaphras has come to him for help. There is a group of false teachers (Gnostics) attacking the new little church and it’s causing confusion among these young believers. They’re saying that they have special knowledge that the Colossians need in order to be saved by God. Th...
Jun 03, 2018•59 min
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May 29, 2018•43 min
Pastor Jake continued our May “Open Hands” series. Our default position as human beings is to close our hands around the things we have. This includes tangible things like money, houses, cars, etc., but it also includes intangible things like our time, family, mercy, and more. It’s our nature and it’s our culture. Our culture screams “hoard, gather, keep, hold, close your hands!” Our default position is to live life with closed hands, and yet as Christ-followers we are to live life with open han...
May 20, 2018•47 min
Pastor Jake continued our May “Open Hands” series. Our default position as human beings is to close our hands around the things we have. This includes tangible things like money, houses, cars, etc., but it also includes intangible things like our time, family, mercy, and more. It’s our nature and it’s our culture. Our culture screams “hoard, gather, keep, hold, close your hands!” Our default position is to live life with closed hands, and yet as Christ-followers we are to live life with open han...
May 13, 2018•54 min
Pastor Jake kicked off our May series entitled “Open Hands”. Our default position as human beings is to close our hands around the things we have. This includes tangible things like money, houses, cars, etc., but it also includes intangible things like our time, family, mercy, and more. It’s our nature and it’s our culture. Our culture screams “hoard, gather, keep, hold, close your hands!” Our default position is to live life with closed hands, and yet as Christ-followers we are to live life wit...
May 06, 2018•45 min
Pastor Jake continued our “Take 5” series which will look at Jesus’ life from 5 different perspectives (takes): Peter, Thomas, Matthew, Pilate, and Paul. The plan is for Pastor Jake to tell each week’s perspective from that person’s point of view. On Sunday (Take 4) he was Pilate. Pilate is very different than the other 4 “takes” we will get in this series for one major reason: he never gave his life to Jesus. All the other stories we will hear in this Take 5 series are stories of life change. P...
Apr 29, 2018•41 min
Pastor Jake continued our “Take 5” series which will look at Jesus’ life from 5 different perspectives (takes): Peter, Thomas, Matthew, Pilate, and Paul. The plan is for Pastor Jake to tell each week’s perspective from that person’s point of view. On Sunday (Take 4) he was Pilate. Pilate is very different than the other 4 “takes” we will get in this series for one major reason: he never gave his life to Jesus. All the other stories we will hear in this Take 5 series are stories of life change. P...
Apr 23, 2018•40 min
Pastor Jake continued our “Take 5” series which will look at Jesus’ life from 5 different perspectives (takes): Peter, Thomas, Matthew, Pilate, and Paul. The plan is for Pastor Jake to tell each week’s perspective from that person’s point of view. On Sunday (Take 3) he was Matthew. Matthew wasn’t always Matthew. He started out as Levi. He was a tax collector, which was basically the most hated person in Israel at the time. They were considered sellouts, traitors, and thieves since they collected...
Apr 15, 2018•42 min
Pastor Jake continued our “Take 5” series which will look at Jesus’ life and sacrifice from 5 different perspectives (takes): Peter, Thomas, Matthew, Pilate, and Paul. The plan is for Pastor Jake to tell each week’s perspective from that person’s point of view. On Sunday (week 2), he was Thomas. Thomas has a nickname that has stuck with him long after his death – “Doubting Thomas”. At times though, Thomas showed great faith in Jesus. And yet through his story, we can see the fight between faith ...
Apr 08, 2018•32 min
Pastor Jake started our “Take 5” series which will look at Jesus’ life and sacrifice from 5 different perspectives (takes): Peter, Thomas, Matthew, Pilate, and Paul. On Sunday (week 1), he was Peter. Peter was at times very faith- filled, but at other times not so much. He made some huge mistakes – questioning Jesus, doubting Jesus, rebuking Jesus, and in the end outright denying that he even knew Jesus. And yet each time he made a mistake, Jesus was there to offer Peter a second chance and a th...
Apr 01, 2018•39 min
http://bible.com/events/381925
Mar 25, 2018•39 min
