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The Bread of Tears
12/22/2019 Psalm 80 Dave Crispell This Sunday’s Songs Do You Hear What I Hear? by Regney/Baker Little Drummer...
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Songs of Hope & Joy
12/15/2019 Songs of Hope & Joy Matthew 11:2-11 Chris Breslin “Joy builds on the past and borrows from...
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In the Days to Come
12/01/2019 Isaiah 2:1-5 Chris Breslin “To practice Advent is to lean into an almost cosmic ache: our deep,...
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Imaging the Invisible God (St. Macrina)
11/24/2019 Colossians 1:15-20 Chris Breslin Macrina the Younger (c. 330 – 19 July 379) was a nun in...
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Learning to Love Like Jesus Loved (St. Rich Mullins)
11/17/2019 Philippians 2:5-11 Christian DaPonte Rich Mullins was a Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana....
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Crucified with Christ in Community (St. Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
11/10/2019 Galatians 2:20 Chris Breslin Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, underground seminary-founder, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member...
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Praying Times (St. Ann Atwater) [Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove]
11/03/2019 Luke 18:1-8 Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Ann Atwater was an American civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. She became an...
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Another Ring (5th Anniversary)
10/27/2019 Isaiah 61 Chris Breslin “Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally...
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Peace Within Your Walls
10/20/2019 Psalm 122 Christian DaPonte Christian DaPonte is Oak Church’s Pastoral Intern for the 2019-20 academic year from...
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A Home for God
10/13/2019 Psalm 132 Chris Breslin “You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they...
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The Holy Everywhere and the Holy Here
10/06/2019 Psalm 48 Chris Breslin “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”...
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The Hope of the Poor Will Not Die
09/29/2019 Luke 16:19-31 Chris Breslin I say móre: the just man justices; Keeps grace: thát keeps all his...
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Gotta Serve Somebody
09/22/2019 Luke 16:1-13 Chris Breslin “he unjust steward is nothing less than the Christ-figure in this parable, a...
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Homecoming
09/15/2019 Luke 15 Chris Breslin “I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where...
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Counting the Cost in the Kingdom
09/08/2019 Luke 14:25-33 Chris Breslin “Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Pragmatism, legalism,...
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[Repost] Jeremy Begbie at Oak Church
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Duke Initiatives in Theology and Arts, we’re revisiting this sermon by Jeremy...
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The Kingdom of God Has Come Near
09/01/2019 Luke 10:1-20 Yucheng Bai Yucheng Bai is a doctoral student in World Religions in the Duke University...
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Teach & Establish (Blessing of the Books)
08/25/2019 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin “Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,...
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The End is Where We Start From
08/11/2019 Revelation 22 Chris Breslin With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling ...
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Here and Now
08/04/2019 Revelation 21:1-22:5 Mindy Erdmann Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room by McGhee Your...
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Enemies, not Rivals
07/28/2019 Revelation 20 Chris Breslin “There are two angels with a (hu)man—one of righteousness, and the other of...
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Hallelujah Anyhow
07/21/2019 Revelation 19:1-10 Chris Breslin “For us, refers to something much more like the human tendency, the...
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The Apocalyptic Ordinary
07/14/2019 Revelation 17:3-18 Sarah Neff Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019) Songs for Today’s...
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Follow the Lamb Wherever He Goes
07/07/2019 Revelation 12:1-17 Chris Breslin “Jesus was faced with these same questions, but when he was asked to...
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The Art of the Interlude
06/30/2019 Revelation 10-11 Andre Franklin Andre Franklin is the pastor and planter of Vinea Church. The Franklins (wife...
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Songs, Scents, & Silence
06/23/2019 Revelation 8:1-5 Chris Breslin “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” -Pauli Murray “I wanted...
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The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd
06/16/2019 Revelation 6-7 Chris Breslin “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic...
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Gathered Around the Throne
06/09/2019 Revelation 4&5 Chris Breslin “Christians worship with a conviction that they are in the presence of God....
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Identity Crisis
06/02/2019 Revelation 2 & 3 Jeremiah Dodson “Revelation is not about the antichrist, but about the living Christ....
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Past, Present, & Future
05/26/2019 Revelation 1:12-20 Chris Breslin “Christ is the center and at the center.” -Eugene Peterson “Jesus is...
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Can I Get a Witness?!
05/19/2019 Revelation 1:1-11 Chris Breslin “The imagination is our way into the divine Imagination, permitting us to see...
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A Magnifying Life
05/12/2019 Luke 1:46-55 Chris Breslin “My mother and grandmother taught me to ignore Mother’s Day (a commercial gimmick)...
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What’s So Great About This Commission?
05/05/2019 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin “Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were...
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Scary Good News
04/28/2019 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin “Those who had thought they were alive now discover that what they took...
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Evergreen (Easter Sunday)
04/21/2019 Isaiah 11:1-10 Chris Breslin “Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.” -Frederick Buechner ...
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Walk With Me (Good Friday)
04/19/2019 Chris Breslin “The symbol of the cross in the church points to the God who was crucified...
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A House of Prayer
04/14/2019 Matthew 21:1-17 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...
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Eternity Already
04/07/2019 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...
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The Unfamiliarity of the Christian Life
03/31/2019 Matthew 25:10-13 Andre Franklin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured...
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Everything is on the Table
03/24/2019 Matthew 22:1-14 Chris Breslin (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...
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Insouciant Grace
03/17/2019 Matthew 20:1-16 Chris Breslin (Bumper music:God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues featured...
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As You Forgive Those
03/10/2019 Matthew 18:15-35 Matthew Rehnborg (Bumper music: God Be In My Head by Ryan Gustafson of the Dead Tongues...
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
03/03/2019 Luke 9:28-36 Chris Breslin “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Elvis Costello (maybe, or David...
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Farm Faithfulness
02/24/2019 Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40 Chris Breslin “The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often...
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A Gospel Economy
02/17/2019 Luke 6:17-26 Matthew Rehnborg “The situation of the soul in contemplation is something like the situation of...
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The Pains of Being Pure of Heart
02/10/2019 Isaiah 6:1-11 Chris Breslin “Holy ground is dangerous ground. The holy is never, never something of God...
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Instigators of Jubilee
02/03/2019 Luke 4:21-30 John Chandler John Chandler is the Marketing and Communications Director for Help One Now, an...
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Epiphany & Jubilee
01/27/2019 Luke 4:14-21 Chris Breslin “A Sabbath is a weekly Jubilee during which the powerful are humbled and...
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New Year, New You…Same God
01/20/2019 Isaiah 30:1-5, 12-22 Charlene Brown Season Resources: Joy is for Epiphany, tooby Miroslav Volf (Christian Century) Living...
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Through Waters
01/13/2019 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Sarah Neff “The Epiphany story that most tempts my memory is the story of...
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Feast of the Three Kings (with CANU)
01/06/2019 Matthew 2:1-12 Carolina Kammel & Ricardo Correa A special collaborative Epiphany celebration with our friends from Centro...