Pastor’s Blog

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 be a part of this wonderful week, and if you cannot be with us in […]

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 I know I can truly be competitive. This led me to do some research on

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 how do we become poor in spirit, or furthermore what in the world is it?

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 you cut me off I’m thinking about work in a broad sense. Many of us

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 urging our family recycles everything that our local recycling center accepts. She also teaches her

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 share with you some of what the Lord spoke to me through that sermon. In

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 they say hindsight is 20/20, but you cannot live life this way. If you continue

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 any less true. Although we may view this as a negative this is actually a

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 sold everything that she owned to be able to make the move to Africa to

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 too focus on division, but among the body of Christ? Instead of focusing on the