TLDR: Tuning up for Launch ~ Can you be there Saturday? Bible Study ~ Back Next Month! Serving in Worship [Schedule👇] ***Note! Important Reminders! Welcome to 167/168! Your weekly update and encouragement on all things related to our Oakley Mission. Here's what's new this week: Tap and hold to copy this invite and send it in a text message to a friend! Tuning Up for Launch 🚀 PLEASE CONFIRM: Can you be there this Saturday? Here's why it's so important... This coming Saturday is our last...
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2 Cor. 2:10–11 Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. Read the context If you can't make an important meeting, you might send a proxy — someone to speak for you. Forgiveness is never “just between you and them.” Every time you forgive, you step into a sacred role—you speak as Christ Himself. You aren’t just...
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Luke 15:8–10 Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” Read the context When I worked at a bank, a man once brought in the wallet he had lost in a field five...
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Psalm 46:1–3 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Read the context It's been a week where it felt like the earth was shaking — The anniversary of a major terrorist attack... Violence in the news... Wars, Worries, & Fear. It can feel like the world is falling apart. But your world isn't....
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Acts 16:31–34 They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized. The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household. Read the context The Jailer...
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Acts 16:25–30 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake. ... At once all the prison doors flew open. ... The jailer was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!” The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what...
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Romans 12:3–5 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Read the context God gave you unique functions as part of a bigger...
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Philemon 8–11 Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul—an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, who became my son while I was in chains. Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me. Read the context Paul was asking Philemon to do the hard thing — "Welcome back Onesimus, your...
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Deut. 30:15–16 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. Read the context The Israelites were about to enter the land God promised them. What would life look like next? Moses knew — there were only two paths: a path following the...
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