PODCAST · religion
2017
by Oak Church
A Neighborhood Church for Hope, Healing, & Hospitality in Christ in Durham, NC
Episodes
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Advent 4 – Directions For Singing
12/24/17 Psalm 96 Chris Breslin “Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice now, nor more ashamed of its being heard, than when you sung the songs of Satan.” John Wesley,...
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Advent 3: Lying at Rest & Letting the Pieces Fly
12/17/2017 Psalm 126 & Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Chris Breslin “And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. […]
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Advent 2: Landscaping for Peace (and Kissing Babies)
12/10/2017 Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2; 8-13 Sarah Neff “The peace between God and man and the salvation which comes to us men is not something general, but the specific thing itself: that concrete thing which is indicated by the name of Jesus Christ and not by any other name. For He who bears...
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Advent 1: Seeing God’s Face
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. He’s a graduate of Georgetown College (KY) and Duke Divinity School. He and his wife Jenny are both from small towns in Kentucky. Jenny graduated from the University of...
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Get Your Hopes Up
11/26/2017 Romans 15:3-11 Chris Breslin “Advent is an invitation to plunge into the deep, dark waters of our worst world, knowing that when we re-surface for air we will encounter the hopeful, hovering Spirit of God. For when we dive into the depths of our worst world, we reach a critical point…
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The Practice of Welcoming Children
11/19/2017 Mark 9:36-37; 10:13-16 Meg Hoffman ‘Welcome’, the word is always on your lips, Each welcome warms another one inside, An interleaving of relationships, An open door where arms are open wide. First welcome to the child and through the child A welcome to the Saviour of the world And...
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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 only weapons then at our disposal are those of the Spirit. We choose the way of Jesus laying aside all the earthly resources that give us power- in order to be present to...
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Just as Long as I am in this World…
11/05/2017 John 9:1-17 Chris Breslin “To proclaim the Gospel is to proclaim that it is at last possible to be properly human.” –Rowan Williams “The good news brings us to God, and it also brings life and healing to a broken, dying and divided world. Anything less is not the gospel.” –Brenda…
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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 Eastern Orthodox church architecture portrays and western Gothic architecture depicts—both developing, each in its own way, the central temple theology of Judaism. The God...
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The Hospitality of God [Norman Wirzba]
10/22/2017 Luke 14:12-24 Norman Wirzba Dr. Norman Wirzba was raised on a farm in Southern Alberta, and went on to study history at the University of Lethbridge, theology at Yale University Divinity School, and philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Since then he has taught at Saint Thomas More...
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Our Gifts Combined: the Fullness of Christ in Our Midst
10/15/2017 Ephesians 4:1-16 Chris Breslin “Being a Christian was always about living by faith in Jesus’ sovereign Lordship in a world which didn’t much look as if he was in charge.” –N.T. Wright “The church is nothing less than Christ’s availability to the world.” –Robert Jensen “’I submit to…
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Be Reconciled: Peace-making as Ecology, Geology, & Hydrology
10/01/2017 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 Sarah Neff “When God sets out to embrace the enemy, the result is the cross.” –Miroslav Volf “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” -John Steinbeck, East of Eden “Blame is simply the discharging of discomfort and pain. It has an inverse...
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Presence Takes Practice (& vice versa)
10/1/17 Psalm 46 Chris Breslin “Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything.” –Gordon Hempton “God’s presence is the central fact of Christianity.” –A.W. Tozer “The Psalms not only insist that we are called to live at the intersection of God’s space and our space, of...
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The Floor & the Ceiling
09/24/2017 Philippians 4:10-23 Chris Breslin “’This present world is a perfectly safe place for us to be.’ That certainly is what Jesus, and the Bible as a whole, has to say to us. ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord...
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Incarcerated Joy
09/17/2017 Acts 16:16-28 Dewey Williams Rev. Dewey Williams is a minister at Mt. Level Missionary Baptist Church in Durham, where he serves with the Prison Ministry, Voices of Praise, Male Chorus, as a teacher of the Marriage Ministry, and as Executive Director of the Mt. Level Community Haven.…
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The Lord is Near!
09/10/2017 Philippians 4:1-9 “Thanksgiving means giving God the glory in everything, making room for him, casting our care on him, letting it be his care. The troubles that exercise us then cease to be hidden and bottled up. They are so to speak laid open towards God, spread out before him.”…
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Third Culture Kids
09/03/2017 Philippians 3:17-21 Chris Breslin Testimony by Bryan Diver & Blake “Slowly, I started to enter more fully into the world of my refugee friends. As the days and months blended into years, I experienced strange paradoxes. The more I failed to communicate the love of God to my friends…
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Humility, Even Unto Death
8/27/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Charlene Brown Rev. Charlene Brown is the National Director of Black Campus Ministries for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Empty Me Out by White/Vice Hail to the Lord’s Anointed by Montgomery/McCracken 10,000 Reasons (Bless the...
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Renouncing Our Righteousness
08/20/2017 Philippians 3:1-16 Chris Breslin “Faith in its decisive act is the collapse of every effort of our own capacity and will, and the recognition of the absolute necessity of that collapse.” –Karl Barth “Disciples live with not only renouncing their own rights, but even renouncing their…
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REI Groundwater Testimony
8/20/2017 Stephanie Holmer, Joe Longarino, Nate Hood, Erin Victor, Elizabeth Christenson & Chris Breslin
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A Family on Mission
08/13/2017 Philippians 2:19-30 Chris Breslin A Congregational Prayer for Churches after Charlottesville by Rich Villodas (Missio Alliance) “Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God…I am a soldier of Christ; it is not permissible for me to fight.” –Martin of...
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Fear and Trembling…and Joy?!
8/6/2017 Philippians 2:12-18 Chris Breslin “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” -Wendell Berry “Salvation is not only something we receive but also something we do.” –Gordon Fee Urban Church Planting Plantations by...
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Everything that Converges Must Kneel
07/30/2017 Philippians 2:1-11 Chris Breslin “We can increasingly resemble Christ in character and in power by following him in his overall style of life … This was the method of his earliest disciples, and it is as valid today as it was then.” –Dallas Willard “Humility in abstracto can be the...
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The Impeded Stream Sings
07/23/2017 Philippians 1:27-30 Chris Breslin It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings....
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The Gospel in Chains? [Richard B. Hays]
07/16/2017 Philippians 1:12-26 Dr. Richard B. Hays Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Leave it There by Tindley Rejoice the Lord is King by Wesley/Darwall Hail to the Lord’s Anointed by Montgomery/McCracken Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches Take My Life and Let it Be by Havergal/Herold We...
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Of Slaves & Saints…
07/09/2017 Philippians 1:1-11 Chris Breslin “All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still ‘about to be’.” –C.S. Lewis “The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross; that is why it is…
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Do What?!
07/02/2017 Joshua 6:1-20 Marty Childers (Director of Mission, Yates Baptist Association) Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Take Us, O Lord by Wardell All Creatures of Our God and King by St. Francis Praise the Savior, Now and Ever by Fortunatus/Moore Be Thou My Vision by Forgaill Steadfast by...
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A Little Lower; Just Right
06/25/2017 Psalm 8 Chris Breslin “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” -Frederick Buechner “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the…
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“and the Lord for the body?”
06/18/2017 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Joe Longarino “In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.” –Pope John Paul II “Coitus without coexistence is demonic.” –Karl Barth Scripture: Jeremiah 2:13 Psalm 84:1-2 Psalm 63:1 Songs for...
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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 Light by Williams Be Thou My Vision by Forgaill Let Them Praise the Name of the Lord by Harris/Crawford How Can I Keep from Singing? by Lowry Wake Up by Jordan/Chaffer/Leonard...
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Ascension Ora et Labora
05/28/2017 John 17:1-11 Chris Breslin “The glory of God is humanity fully alive.” –Irenaeus “To embrace the ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image bearing...
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Believe into God, Believe into Me Also
5/21/17 John 14:1-21 Chris Breslin “These chapters have often rightly been seen as among the most precious and intimate in the New Testament. They are full of comfort, challenge and hope, full of the deep and strange personal relationship that Jesus longs to have with each of his followers. We...
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Go There
05/14/2017 Sermon John 4:1-30, 39-43 Stephanie Holmer Scripture: 2 Kings 17 Ezra 4 Luke 9:51-56 John 1:32 Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Want by Green Flourishing (Psalm 119) by McCracken He Leadeth Me by Gilmore/Bradbury Glory Be to God the Father by Bonar/Mundell Rest by Maher/Cockrell I...
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2017 Ecclesia Network National Gathering & Missio Alliance Reflection
Rachel Breslin, Stephanie Holmer, Sarah Neff, & Nate Hood reflect about their week in Alexandria, VA at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering & Missio Alliance.
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He Calls His Own Sheep by Name & Leads Them Out
05/07/2017 John 10:1-15 Chris Breslin Scripture: Ezekiel 34 John 1:4 John 3:16 John 11:25 John 17:3 John 20:31 Psalm 23 (The Message) Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: You Are A Good Shepherd by Smith I Am Thine O Lord (Draw Me Nearer) by Crosby/Doane All Creatures of Our God and King by St....
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These Things
04/30/2017 Sermon Luke 24:13-35 Jeremiah Dodson “We do not gain a grasp of Scripture’s significance solely through lectures on the text, we come to understand the death and resurrection of Jesus as we participate in the shared life of the community, enacted in meals shared at the table.” –Richard...
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Still Easter
04/23/2017 John 20:19-31 Chris Breslin “The church exists for mission as a fire exists by burning.” –Emil Bruner “Jesus has a very special love for you, as for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see; I listen and do not hear.” –Mother Teresa “When in doubt, do it.”...
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Easter: Why Are You Weeping? Who Are You Looking For?
John 20:1-18 Chris Breslin “The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade…Jesus’ resurrection is to be seen as the beginning of the new world, the first day of the new week, the unveiling of the prototype of what God is now going to accomplish in…
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Good Friday 2017: “Save Yourself!”
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 Assad Man of Sorrows, What a Name! by Bliss When I Survey the Wondrous Cross by Watts/Mason Up on a Mountain by Aiuto Have Mercy by McCracken/Cockrell Never Said a…
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A Weeping Messiah & A Hidden Peace
04/09/2017 Luke 19:28-44 Chris Breslin “I would not be a Christian apart from those tears. Jesus’ wasteful tears.” –Steve Garber “At Bethany, the Incarnate Word of God stood wordless.” –Richard Hays “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral...
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Silent God, Dissonant Prayer
04/02/2017 Lamentations 5 Sarah Neff “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith “Its very unsettledness enables the book to be a house for sorrow, neither denied nor overcome with sentimental wishes, theological escapism, or premature closure… Lamentations...
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Sharing Our Words & Wounds
03/19/2017 Lamentations 4:17-22 Chris Breslin “What house is it to which the Bible is the door? What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?” -Karl Barth “The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and...
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The Fast I Choose
03/12/2017 Lamentations 2:6-9, 14 Chris Breslin There is no consolation in the thought of God, he said, slamming another nail in another house another havoc had half–taken. Grace is not consciousness, nor is it beyond. To hell with remembrance, to hell with heaven, hammer is the prayer of the…
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Freedom Through Awareness & Repentance [Christena Cleveland]
03/05/17 Psalm 32:1-7 Dr. Christena Cleveland Dr. Christena Cleveland is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership, Spirituality, and Intercultural Studies at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC. She is a social psychologist and reconciliation scholar-practitioner who writes and…
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Lent’s Third Effect
Lamentations 1 2/26/17 Chris Breslin “Lament is beating on God’s chest & trusting he’s not going anywhere.” –Mandy Smith “I thought I had been unwittingly commissioned do the sound track to the end of the world.” –William Bazinski “Laments are the prayers of the discontented, the disturbed, and…
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Beautiful Feet & Where to Find Them
02/19/2017 Acts 16:16-36 Sarah Neff “For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” “This illuminates also what O’Connor says about what she thinks makes a story work as a story – ‘some action, some gesture of…
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Preach the Gospel at All Times
02/12/2017 Acts 3:1-16 Chris Breslin “Preach the gospel at all times, when necessary use words.” –St. Francis of Assisi (probably not though) “His words were neither hollow nor ridiculous, but filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, penetrating the marrow of the heart, so that listeners were...
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Restorying Our Lives
2/5/17 Acts 17:16-34 Chris Breslin “Be missionaries cleverly disguised as good neighbors.” –J.R. Briggs “Christ plays in ten thousand places lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his to the Father through the feature of men’s faces.” –Gerard Manley Hopkins “Instructions for living a life. Pay...
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Hospitality: A People Blessed by the Lord
01/29/2017 Isaiah 61:5-11 Chris Breslin “For most of the church’s history, faithful believers located their acts of hospitality in a vibrant tradition in which needy strangers, Jesus, and angels were welcomed and through which people were transformed.” –Christine Pohl, Making Room “The icon does...
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Healed People, Healed City
01/22/2017 Isaiah 61:1-6 Sarah Neff “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” –Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “If we want to see a wild animal the last thing we should do is go crashing into the woods, yelling for it to come out.” –Parker Palmer “Our own experience…
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