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The Givenness & Forgivenness of Things
10/06/2024 Matthew 18:21-35 Chris Breslin Slides for October 6, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Lord’s Prayer by...
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Praying Like Family
09/08/2024 Matthew 6:5-13 Chris Breslin Slides from September 8, 2024 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Lord’s Prayer...
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Making Sense of Friday
03/29/2024 Stations of the Cross Reflection Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering By the Mark by Welch/Rawlings...
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Love, Actually
10/29/2023 Matthew 22:34-40 Chris Breslin Slides from October 29, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Come All Ye...
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The Difference Between Paying & Praying
10/22/2023 Matthew 22:15-22 Chris Breslin Slides from October 22, 2023 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Take It Easy...
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Vines, Stones, & Fruit
10/08/2023 Matthew 21:33-46 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Our God is Present by White All Ye...
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Dogs are Sheep Too
08/20/2023 Matthew 15:21-27 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Breastplate of St. Patrick by Porter’s Gate Worship...
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(Not Quite) Walking on Water
08/13/2023 Matthew 14:22-33 Hannah Wheeler & Justin Farmer Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No...
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Saved By Grace (& Potlucks)
08/06/2023 Matthew 14:13-21 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Earth is Yours by Gungor This is...
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Growing & Sowing
07/16/2023 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Thomas Kortus Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by Porter’s Gate Worship...
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Paradoxology
07/09/2023 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Restore Us Again by...
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Peace That Surpasses Understanding
06/25/2023 Matthew 10:24-39 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering All of Your Ways Are...
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But Sick People Do
06/11/2023 Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar...
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Welcome to Ordinary
06/04/2023 Matthew 28:16-20 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Slow Me Down by Porter’s Gate Worship Project...
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Light, Both Visible and Invisible
05/21/2023 Matthew 5:14-16 Mark Acuff Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Little Light of Mine by Traditional The...
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Sowing Seeds of Transfiguration
02/19/2023 Matthew 17:1-9 Natasha Arnold Music for Sunday’s worship gathering The Transfiguration by Stevens Come Thou Fount by Robinson The...
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The Keys to the Kingdom
02/12/2023 Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Your Love is Strong by Foreman Just a Closer...
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Tasting & Seeing the Kingdom
02/05/2023 Matthew 5:13-20 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering In Christ There is No East or West by...
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Anticipating the Kingdom
01/29/2023 Matthew 5:1-12 (The Message) Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Blessed are the Merciful by the Porter’s...
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Kings & the God of Gifts (Tres Reyes Magos)
01/08/2023 Matthew 2:1-12 Chris Breslin Music for Sunday’s worship gathering This Joy by Caesar Peace Like a River, traditional...
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Upside Down & Backwards (St. Libba Cotten)
11/06/2022 Matthew 13:44, 51-58 Chris Breslin Slides from November 6, 2022 Music for Sunday’s worship gathering Freight Train...
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The Kingdom Work of Play
05/01/2022 Matthew 18:1-5 Brodie Heginbotham Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Slides from May 1, 2022 Music...
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Seeing and Praying in the New Year
01/02/2022 Visio Divina with Matthew 6:9-15 Chris Breslin Slides from January 2, 2022 Watch the whole worship gathering...
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Creating a Durable Life Together (St. Benedict of Nursia)
11/07/2021 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin Slides from November 7, 2021 Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch...
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Considering the Lilies
05/16/2021 Matthew 6:16-34 Meg Hoffman Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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Learning to Talk and Listen to God [Will Willimon]
05/09/2021 Matthew 6:1-15 Will Willimon Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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New Plans for the Nonviolent Kingdom
05/02/2021 Matthew 5:38-48 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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Concrete Good News
04/25/2021 Matthew 5:17-20 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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This Little Light of Mine
04/18/2021 Matthew 5:13-16 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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The Sermon on the Parking Lot
04/11/2021 Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin Watch the whole worship gathering via YouTube. Watch this week’s Oak Kids’ Godly...
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Los Tres Reyes Magos (testimony by Pastor Ricardo Correa)
On this Epiphany Sunday, we were joined for a brief testimony by Pastor Ricardo Correa (CANU) as he shares...
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A Ministry of Stirring the Pot (St. Pauli Murray)
11/15/2020 Matthew 12:1-14 Meg Hoffman Pauli Murray was an American civil rights activist who became a lawyer, a women’s...
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A People Who Bear the Kingdom’s Fruit
10/04/2020 Matthew 21:33-46 (Proper 22) Chris Breslin “It is very easy to be servants of the word without...
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Confusing Grace: God’s Vast Conspiracy of Enoughness
09/20/2020 Matthew 20:1-16 (Proper 20) Chris Breslin “All my stories are about the action of grace on a...
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Never Forget Mercy
09/13/2020 Matthew 18:21-35 (Proper 19) Chris Breslin Testimony and introduction of Yudai Chiba (2020-21 Pastoral Intern) “Through my memory...
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Like the Gentiles & Tax Collectors
09/06/2020 Matthew 18:15-20 (Proper 18) Justin Farmer Godly Play at Home Practical Tips and Resources for Hand Copying...
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God Loves You & Has a Cross Planned for Your Life
08/30/2020 Matthew 16:21-28 (Proper 17) Chris Breslin “Jesus gives his disciples a new barometer.” Whereas the God’s people’s...
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The Cross & the Mustard Seed (Blessing of the Books)
08/23/2020 Matthew 13:31-33 Meg Hoffman & Chris Breslin Godly Play at Home Practical Tips and Resources for Hand...
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A Persistent Prayer for Humble Access
08/16/2020 Matthew 15:21-28 (Proper 15) Chris Breslin We do not presume to come to this your table, O...
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God Moves on the Water
08/09/2020 Matthew 14:22-33 (Proper 14) Chris Breslin “Faith is not a characteristic. Faith is not a personality trait....
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Do Not Be Afraid
04/12/2020 Matthew 28:1-10 Chris Breslin “I’m neither an optimist nor a pessimist, Jesus Christ is risen from the...
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Love So Amazing (Good Friday audio version)
Video version available via Youtube Slides of Featured Artwork Presentation Song: “Daughters of Zion” By Isaac Wardell, Erin Rose...
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Transfigurate
02/23/2020 Psalm 99 & Matthew 17:1-9 Chris Breslin “The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and...
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Discipleship for Losers*
02/16/2020 Psalm 119:1-9 & Matthew 5:21-37 Chris Breslin “Only the cross as God’s truth about us makes us...
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Kingdom Values and the Valuable Cross
02/02/2020 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & Matthew 5:1-12 Chris Breslin “To be a Negro in this country and to...
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An Extraordinary Call
01/26/2020 Psalm 27 & Matthew 4:12-23 Chris Breslin “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us...
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Open Eyes & Open Ears
01/12/2020 Psalm 29 & Matthew 3:13-17 Chris Breslin “Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of...
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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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The One Who Is Coming
12/01/2019 Matthew 3:1-12 Bettejean Cramer (audio unavailable, manuscript below) This Sunday’s Songs Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken...
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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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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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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...
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Behold Your King
03/25/2018 Matthew 21:1-11/John 9:1-14; 35-41 Joe Longarino Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Come Light Our Hearts by McCracken Hosanna...
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Simply Sit Among the Shards
11/12/2017 Matthew 25:31-46 Chris Breslin “When we allow ourselves to be disarmed, we become both vulnerable and strong. The...
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Praying in the [King]dom
10/29/17 Matthew 6:1-13 Kate Hamman “The Lord’s Prayer, along with the Eucharist, forms the liturgical equivalent to what...
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Here We Go
06/11/2017 Matthew 28:16-20 Matt Hoffman Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take to the World by Tate/Webb I Saw the...
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Our Father Who Is in Heaven
10/9/2016 Matthew 6:1-14 Chris Breslin I heard him call you his beloved son And saw his Spirit...
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Making Good: Biblical Principles of Creative Work
9/18/2016 Matthew 25:14-30 Alexandra Harper Alexandra Harper is the Creative Director and Founder of Culture Care RDU. A Ministry...
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The With-ness & Sent-ness of the Resurrection of Jesus
4/17/16 Chris Breslin Matthew 28:1-20 “The best of all, is God is with us.” –John Wesley “Ours is a...
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The Risk & Reward of The Kingdom
“God gives so that we can exist and flourish, but not only for that, God gives so that we...
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The Kingdom is Like…a Treasure, a Pearl
9/27/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:44-52 “What do we really believe? I mean, believe in such a way that our...
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The Kingdom is Like…a Mustard Seed
9/20/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 13:21-24 Oak Church’s First Anniversary “Parables are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. They...
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My God, My God! Why Have You Forsaken Me?
3/15/15 Chris Breslin Matthew 27:45-54 “When Jesus died asking questions, we learn that Jesus not only took on our...