Sermons

June 2, 2024 – August 11, 2024

A Summer sermon series based on St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer and gospel stories of Jesus’ peace.

May 19, 2024 – May 26, 2024

Sermons from Pentecost and Trinity Sundays, 2024.

March 31, 20224 – May 12, 2024

Sermons from Revised Common Lectionary Texts in Acts (& others) from Easter to Pentecost 2024.

February 18, 2024 – March 31, 20224

Sermons in from Lent and Holy Week exploring embodied prayer and life with God through our senses. 

January 14, 2024 – February 11, 20224

Sermons in Epiphany Season at our new meeting space in the Reuse Arts District. 

August 7, 2022 – October 23, 2022

Sermons Ordinary Time 2022 until All Saints Day, journeying through RCL texts. 

June 5, 2022 – July 31, 2022

Sermons summer 2022, exploring the story of building the City of God from Ezra-Nehemiah. 

April 17, 2022 – May 29, 2022

Sermons from the Eastertide season 2022. Revised Common Lectionary texts.

November 3, 2019 – ongoing

Occasional sermons detailing extraordinarily ordinary holy lives. Each of these people show us more of what Jesus is like and how to follow him in their time and ours. Whether formally recognized or not they are, and y’all can be, saints.

March 6, 2022 – April 3, 2022

Sermons from the Lenten season and Holy Week 2022. Psalms of ascent for a season of journeying to the Cross.

January 2, 2022 – February 27, 2022

Sermons from Epiphany season 2022. A season of revelation and celebration of God’s arrival.

November 28, 2021 – Dec 24, 2021

Sermons from Advent 2021. A season of waiting and preparation for the arrival of Jesus.

August 29, 2021 – October 24, 2021

Sermons from Fall 2021. Exploring the Fruit of  God’s Spirit in community.

May 23, 2021 – August 29, 2021

Sermons from Summer 2021. Following Pentecost, we explore the ways the  Spirit creates a diverse, resilient, and beautiful community in the book of Acts.

April 11, 2021 – May 16, 2021

Sermons from Parking Lot Church– our reassembly after more than a year apart. We dive into the New Creation imagination of Jesus in his Sermon recorded in Matthew.

February 21, 2021 – April 4, 2021

Sermons from Lent  2021, a season of learning from the Psalms of Lament’s vocabulary or intimacy,  protest, and hope.

January 3, 2021 – February 7, 2021

Sermons from the season of unveiling and making manifest God’s salvation to the world.

November 27, 2020 – December  20, 2020

Advent sermons on hope, peace, joy, & love as we wait for Jesus’ coming.

August 2, 2020 – October 11, 2020

Following the Lectionary (Matthew) through the summer “growing time” of the Liturgical Year.

May 5, 2020 – July 26, 2020

Sermons on the Apostles’ Creed. Framing the classic confession of faith and faithfulness for our present world.

March 1, 2020 – April 9, 2020

Sermons from the season of Lent as we explore several spiritual practice to form and craft us into Christlikeness.

December 3, 2019 – December 24, 2019

Sermons from the Matthew cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary for the Advent season of Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace.

October 6, 2019 – October 27, 2019

Exploring sacred space, our calling, and God’s presence in the neighborhood.

Various

Special topics and sermons not a part of a regular series.

May 19, 2019 – August 11, 2019

A kaleidoscopic summer journey through the book of Revelation.

April 21, 2019 – May 12, 2019

Experiencing and exploring Spirit-resurrected life.

March 10, 2019 – April 19, 2019

Allowing our imaginations to to be transfigured by Jesus’ participatory stories as we journey to and through the Cross.

January 13, 2019 – March 3, 2019

Celebrating the season of Epiphany (a season of light, revelation, & glory) through the presentation of the gifts of the Magi, Christ’s baptism, temptation, and the beginning of his earthly ministry.

December 2, 2018 – December 24, 2018

An Advent journey of Hope, Love, Joy, & Peace through passages from the Revised Common Lectionary.

September 30, 2018 – October 28, 2018

As we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the planting of Oak Church, we’ll remember the Grand Story we participate in.

September 9, 2018

Our conversation around Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove new book, Reconstructing the Gospel, took place at Oak Church on September 9, 2018. Tammy White Rodman (Pilgrimage Coordinator for DurhamCares) was the moderator.

August 26, 2018 –  September 23, 2018

A theological  & missional series on becoming the sort of neighbors Jesus was and calls us to be. Starting with the Blessing of the Books  (8/26), this series features several practical imaginative exercises to help you neighbor well in the gospel.

May 20, 2018 –  August 12, 2018

A summer series exploring the presence and promise of the Holy Spirit in stories throughout the Old and New Testaments.

April 1, 2018 – May 13, 2018

Eastertide sermons from the Revised Common Lectionary text featuring the First Epistle of John

February 18 – March 30, 2018

An exploration of the Gospel of John’s seven signs of salvation.

January 7 – February 11, 2018

An Epiphany celebration following the Revised Common Lectionary.

February 25, 2018

Pastor Chris Breslin recently invited Bob Crawford to be part of a live conversation with Kate Bowler to talk about the history of Christianity, their faith, and how the crisis of cancer has affected their relationships with God. Kate Bowler is Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity Schooland author of the New York Times Best Selling Book Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved (Random House, 2018) and Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Oxford University Press, 2013). She also hosts the podcast Everything Happens.

December 3 – December 24, 2017

An Advent journey of Hope, Love, Joy, & Peace through passages from the Revised Common Lectionary.

October 1 – November 26, 2017

A fall study featuring seven practices of the church for experiencing and extending Christ’s presence into the neighborhood.

July 9 – September 24, 2017

A summer study through Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi.

April 16 – July 2, 2017

Resurrection & Pentecost season sermons from Revised Common Lectionary texts.

February 26 – April 14, 2017

A Lenten journey through the book of Lamentations cultivating a vocabulary of lament for our life in Durham.

February 5 – February 19, 2017

Growing in our knowledge and ability to share the Good News of Jesus in normal, everyday ways.

January 15 – January 29, 2017

Looking back and looking forward at the mission and vision of Oak Church in Isaiah 61.

November 27 – December 24, 2016

An Advent journey of Hope, Love, Joy, & Peace through the stories of the women in Jesus’ family tree.

October 9 – November 20, 2016

Learning and Living the Lord’s Prayer Locally

September 11 – October 2, 2016

Exploring our creative calling together. A 4-week series about work, creativity, risk, place, technology, and vocation.

June 6 – September 4, 2016

The story of King David’s life with God.

March 27 – April 17, 2016

An Easter exploration into the four gospel accounts of the resurrected Jesus.

“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” –N.T. Wright

February 14 – March 27, 2016

A Lenten journey in the Gospel of Mark using texts from the Narrative Lectionary.

Periodically we study and sing songs, hymns, and Spirit-songs inspired by Israel’s Songbook.

January 3 – February 7, 2016

Starting out 2016 by exploring Sabbath Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, & Feasting.

November 29 – December 24, 2015

An Advent journey of Hope, Love, Joy, & Peace through song.

“One who sings, prays twice.” –St. Augustine of Hippo

September 20 – November 22, 2015

Throughout the Fall we’ll explore Kingdom stories and images from Jesus’ teaching in the gospels.  #kingdomislike

June 7 – August 30, 2015

A summer-long study of the letter to the Ephesians. #OakRooted

April 5 – May 3, 2015

An Easter 2015 series on what 1 Corinthians 15 tells us about living in light of the Resurrection.

February 15 – April 5, 2015

A multi-sensory Lenten exploration of Jesus’ words from the Cross.

November 30 – December 24, 2014

“Learning to live appropriately between the two ‘comings,’ under the rescuing rule of Jesus and in the power of the Spirit, is what it means to be a Christian.” -N.T. Wright

An Advent journey of Hope, Love, Joy, & Peace through the Year B Psalms of the Revised Common Lectionary.

October 26 – November 23, 2014

Imagining Oak Church’s mission through the lens of Isaiah 61’s vision for hope, healing, and hospitality in and through Christ.

September 21 – October 19, 2014

An overview of the Bible’s grand narrative spanning from Creation through Corruption, Community, Cross all the way to New Creation.

VARIOUS

Past guests include: Jeremy Begbie, Kate Bowler, J.R. Briggs, Christena Cleveland, Richard Hays, Chris Smith, and more…

Various

A collection of personal stories of hope, healing, and hospitality in and through Christ.