Guest Preacher

  • Repost: Kate Bowler at Oak Church

    By on September 28, 2021

    To celebrate Kate’s new book, No Cure for Being Human, listen in to this archived unedited version of The Road...

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  • Fragments of Heaven

    By on July 25, 2021

    07/25/2021 Acts 6:1-7 Andre Franklin   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]

    By on May 10, 2021

    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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  • Don’t Call Me a Saint (St. Dorothy Day) [D.L. Mayfield]

    By on September 28, 2020

    09/27/2020 Psalm 126 D.L. Mayfield   Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a...

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  • The Resurrection & the Life: Jesus & Vacant Tombs [Andy Byers]

    By on July 27, 2020

    07/26/2020 John 11:14-44 Rev. Dr. Andy Byers   Slides for July 26, 2020 Godly Play at Home   More...

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  • More Than What It Currently Is

    By on July 14, 2020

    07/12/2020 Ephesians 3:10-21 Charlene Brown   “The “rulers and authorities”— both the earthly authorities and their shadowy heavenly counterparts—...

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  • The Imitation of Mary [Chris E.W. Green]

    By on June 1, 2020

    05/31/2020 Passages from Luke 1 & 2 Dr. Chris E. W. Green   Slides from May 31, 2020 Godly...

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  • Intense, Immersed, Intimate, & In Awe

    By on May 4, 2020

    05/03/2020 Acts 2:42-47 Dr. Linda Gorham   Dr. Linda F. Gorham is the President and Founder of Spring in...

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  • Lament in a Time of Coronavirus [Amy Peterson]

    By on March 23, 2020

    03/22/2020 Lamentations 1 Amy Peterson   Amy Peterson is a writer, teacher, and postulant living in Durham, NC. Her...

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  • The Language of Community [Richella Parham]

    By on March 9, 2020

    03/08/2020 1 John 1:1-9 Richella Parham   “The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive...

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  • The Bread of Tears

    By on December 22, 2019

    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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  • Praying Times (St. Ann Atwater) [Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove]

    By on November 4, 2019

    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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  • [Repost] Jeremy Begbie at Oak Church

    By on September 4, 2019

    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

    By on September 2, 2019

    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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  • The Art of the Interlude

    By on July 1, 2019

    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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  • The Unfamiliarity of the Christian Life

    By on March 31, 2019

    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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  • Instigators of Jubilee

    By on February 4, 2019

    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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  • Stories of Freedom: A Conversation on Race and Place with Natasha Sistrunk-Robinson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    By on December 14, 2018

    Our conversation took place at Oak Church on December 13, 2018. Margot Starbuck facilitated the conversation in partnership with DurhamCares(directed by...

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  • Created to Eat [Kendall Vanderslice]

    By on October 1, 2018

    09/30/2018 Genesis 2:4-25 Kendall Vanderslice   Kendall Vanderslice is a graduate of Wheaton College and Boston University (MLA Gastronomy). She...

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  • Reconstructing the Gospel: an evening with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    By on September 10, 2018

    Our conversation took place at Oak Church on September 9, 2018. Tammy White Rodman (Pilgrimage Coordinator for DurhamCares) was...

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  • The Roots of Shalom

    By on September 10, 2018

    09/09/2018 Jeremiah 29:4-9 Reynolds Chapman   Reynolds Chapman is Executive Director of DurhamCares, whose mission is to mobilize Durham...

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  • Two Laws and the Gospel [Jeff McSwain]

    By on July 23, 2018

    07/22/2018 Romans 8:1-11 Jeff & Susan McSwain Jeff & Susan are the founders of Reality Ministries, a community-based non-profit that...

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  • “Pick Up Your Mat & Walk!”

    By on March 6, 2018

    03/04/2018 John 5:1-15 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian...

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  • Everything Happens for a Reason: a Conversation with Kate Bowler & Bob Crawford

    By on February 26, 2018

    An archived unedited version of The Road to Now (RTN Theology #3) episode. Pastor Chris Breslin recently invited Bob...

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  • Advent 1: Seeing God’s Face

    By on December 9, 2017

    12/03/2017 Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19; Isaiah 64:1-9 Curt Lowndes Rev. Curt Lowndes is the Associate Pastor of the Gathering Church....

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  • Humility, Even Unto Death

    By on August 28, 2017

    8/27/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian...

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  • The Gospel in Chains? [Richard B. Hays]

    By on July 18, 2017

    07/16/2017 Philippians 1:12-26 Dr. Richard B. Hays   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Leave it There by Tindley Rejoice...

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  • Do What?!

    By on July 3, 2017

    07/02/2017 Joshua 6:1-20 Marty Childers (Director of Mission, Yates Baptist Association)   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take Us,...

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  • Good Friday 2017: “Save Yourself!”

    By on April 17, 2017

    04/14/2017 Luke 23:35-43 Mark Acuff Call to Worship: Lamentations 3:40-57 Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Lamb of God by...

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  • Freedom Through Awareness & Repentance [Christena Cleveland]

    By on March 7, 2017

    03/05/17 Psalm 32:1-7 Dr. Christena Cleveland Dr. Christena Cleveland is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership, Spirituality,...

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  • The Power and Glory of the Kingdom [Richella Parham]

    By on November 29, 2016

    11/20/2016 Ephesians 3:14-21 Richella Parham     The kingdom and the power and the glory, The very things we...

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  • Making Good: Biblical Principles of Creative Work

    By on September 20, 2016

    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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  • At the Gate of Our Hearts

    By on August 31, 2016

    8/28/16 2 Samuel 14:25-26; 15:7-14 Rev. Matt Orth   Matt Orth lives in NC with his wife, his two...

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  • Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?

    By on August 15, 2016

    8/14/16 2 Samuel 9 Suvya Carroll & Greg Little “Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when...

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  • Warning: Wilderness Ahead

    By on July 6, 2016

    7/2/16 1 Samuel 24:1-16, 22 Dave Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham native...

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  • Psalm Sunday: Creation and the Coming King

    By on May 31, 2016

    5/29/2016 Austin Wilson Psalm 96 “God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.” –W.H. Auden...

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  • Walk this Way: Resurrection, Scripture and Eating with Jesus

    By on April 11, 2016

    4/10/16 Mike Boone Luke 24:13-35 “You’re pretty good with words, but words won’t save your life.” -Craig Finn from...

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  • Sabbath: Resting [J.R. Briggs]

    By on January 18, 2016

    1/17/16 JR Briggs Exodus 20:1-17,Hebrews 4:1,6-9 J.R. Briggs of Ecclesia Network & Renew Community J.R. Briggs serves as Cultural...

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  • The Kingdom Is Like…Good Soil

    By on November 12, 2015

    11/8/15 Matt Tintera Mark 4:1-20 “There is an entire ecosystem in a handful of soil: bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes,...

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  • Sledgehammer Christ; Peace Reimagined

    By on July 6, 2015

    7/5/15 Mike Boone Ephesians 2:11-22 Rev. Michael Boone The Rev. Michael Boone is an ordained priest in the Anglican...

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  • Growing Further Up & Further In

    By on June 24, 2015

    6/21/15 Dave Crispell Ephesians 1:15-23 Rev. David Crispell, Executive Director of Jubilee Home Rev. David Crispell is a Durham...

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  • Slow Church: an evening with author C. Christopher Smith

    By on April 29, 2015

    4/16/15 talk and potluck conversation sponsored by Duke Divinity School’s Thriving Rural Communities Initiative and hosted by Oak Church. Chris Smith is...

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  • Father, Forgive Them For They Know Not What They Do [Jeremy Begbie]

    By on February 24, 2015

    2/22/15 Jeremy Begbie Luke 23:26-37 —– Further Lenten Reading God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Sweet Deliverance: A...

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  • Our Part In The Body Of Christ

    By on January 28, 2015

    1/25/15 Bradley Cotton Romans 12:6-8 Sermon Notes What are Spiritual Gifts? My definition: The tools and abilities that God...

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  • Christmas Eve

    By on January 7, 2015

    12/24/14 Mark Acuff Luke 2 Advent Resources Cardiphonia Resources for Advent compiled by Bruce Benedict God is in the Manger...

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  • Oak Church Commissioning

    By on September 15, 2014

    Audio from the September 14, 2014 Commissioning Service at the Gathering Church. Text: Isaiah 61. Words from Mark Acuff...

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