May 28, 2013
by Bro. Paxton
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VBS

This coming week Oak Grove will be buzzing with the excitement of our greatest outreach and most effective evangelistic event of the year. There will be classes available for all ages from birth through adults. We hope that you will … Continue reading

May 8, 2013
by Bro. Paxton
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Find your fit

I have always loved sports, well honestly I just love competition. One of my faults stems from this competitive drive. I don’t like to do things that I am not good at. I only want to compete in things that … Continue reading

May 9, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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Poor in Spirit

I recently spent a while thinking about what it meant to be poor in spirit. It is an important quality, or at least Jesus thought that it was. To make the list of beatitudes it must be of importance. So … Continue reading

March 5, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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Quit working so hard

I thought about the words of Jesus,”come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” The more I thought about those words I realized that maybe we often work to hard. Before … Continue reading

February 15, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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Pollution

When we think of pollution we often next move to what we can do to prevent expanding the problem and what we can do to fix it. At my house my wife has genuine concern for this problem. With her … Continue reading

February 7, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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Hand me another brick

I had the privilege of spending a day at the west Kentucky evangelism conference recently where I heard some fantastic preaching. The final sermon of the day has continued to run through my mind so I thought that I would … Continue reading

February 2, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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No holding back

After any test in life I’ve often looked back and wondered what if I had given a little more effort? Sadly we can’t go back and encourage ourselves to give it our all, to not hold back at all. As … Continue reading

January 31, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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God’s Priority

This may come across as harsh and something that we don’t want to hear, but here it goes anyway. God is more concerned with his glory than your happiness. This may be shocking to some but this doesn’t make it … Continue reading

January 27, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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From one freed hostage to another

With the great news recently of the hostages in Somalia being set free I was amazed to hear the story of the American woman in this group. It turns out she was a missionary to the Somali people, and had … Continue reading

January 24, 2012
by Bro. Paxton
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State of the Kingdom

After watching the State of the Union address I could not help but to think about what would it look like if Christ took an evening to let us know how things looked for the Kingdom of God? Would he … Continue reading