2019

  • 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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  • Songs of Hope & Joy

    By on December 16, 2019

    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

    By on December 2, 2019

    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)

    By on November 25, 2019

    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)

    By on November 18, 2019

    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)

    By on November 11, 2019

    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]

    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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  • Another Ring (5th Anniversary)

    By on October 28, 2019

    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

    By on October 21, 2019

    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

    By on October 14, 2019

    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

    By on October 7, 2019

    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

    By on September 30, 2019

    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

    By on September 24, 2019

    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

    By on September 16, 2019

    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

    By on September 9, 2019

    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

    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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  • Teach & Establish (Blessing of the Books)

    By on August 26, 2019

    08/25/2019 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin   “Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,...

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  • By Faith

    By on August 19, 2019

    08/18/2019 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Chris Breslin   “How subversive, raising a liberator under Pharaoh’s roof!  She joined their efforts to...

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  • The End is Where We Start From

    By on August 12, 2019

    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

    By on August 5, 2019

    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

    By on July 29, 2019

    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

    By on July 22, 2019

    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

    By on July 20, 2019

    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

    By on July 8, 2019

    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

    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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  • Songs, Scents, & Silence

    By on June 24, 2019

    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

    By on June 17, 2019

    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

    By on June 10, 2019

    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

    By on June 3, 2019

    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

    By on May 28, 2019

    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?!

    By on May 19, 2019

    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

    By on May 13, 2019

    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?

    By on May 5, 2019

    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

    By on April 29, 2019

    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)

    By on April 22, 2019

    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)

    By on April 22, 2019

    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

    By on April 15, 2019

    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

    By on April 7, 2019

    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

    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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  • Everything is on the Table

    By on March 24, 2019

    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

    By on March 17, 2019

    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

    By on March 11, 2019

    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

    By on March 3, 2019

    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

    By on February 25, 2019

    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

    By on February 18, 2019

    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

    By on February 10, 2019

    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

    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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  • Epiphany & Jubilee

    By on January 28, 2019

    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

    By on January 20, 2019

    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

    By on January 14, 2019

    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)

    By on January 7, 2019

    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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