Branches Oc

We are terrified of being alone with God without distractions. We also don’t know what to do. Let’s answer those 2 questions by looking at Jesus and people that have gone before us.

1/14/2023 "Are you good at praying?" by Branches OC

1/7/2023 New Year's Resolutions by Branches OC

It's not the most wonderful time of the year because of what's happening. It's wonderful because of what happened.

It's not the most wonderful time of the year because of what's happening. It's wonderful because of what happened.

It's not the most wonderful time of the year because of what's happening. It's wonderful because of what happened.

On this Sunday morning, Derek Ketchum shares with us.

The Gospel Message of Jesus’ resurrection is usually reserved to talk about only on Easter. But, moving forward, we see that it was the foundation of the early church’s message and faith.

There is one term, one overpowering element that is used to describe being in Heaven - Love. It is so overwhelming that scripture and other witnesses lead with that when describing being in the presence of God. God is love.

For those who have been in Heaven or the presence of our God, the question they always get is, “Now that you’ve seen God, been to Heaven - how are you living your life differently.” Let’s answer that question.

Will my dog be in heaven? Will I not know my spouse or children? What will we look like? Let’s listen in to God’s Word so the picture becomes clearer.

Heaven won’t have everything. And you will be glad of that. Let’s take a deeper dive.

Can we know what Heaven is like? Does it really matter? Let’s take a quick dive on what God says Heaven is like in Revelation and in Hebrews. It is so freeing and exciting to see how much our God loves us by what He has created!

We talk more about Hell then Heaven. Why? There is so much more detail and description concerning Heaven and we ignore it. We look away? But, Jesus thought Heaven was important enough too.

This Sunday morning, we sit down with the worship team to learn about worship and its meaning.

Maybe God is more complicated than we think. By looking at these two habits, characteristics that define Jesus we see that we need to stay in a state of curiosity and wonder on the complexity and beauty of God. Maybe we don’t know as much as we think we know.

He is always speaking. He has, He is, and He will. The difficulty is that we have tendency to turn away from His Word. We don’t stay planted like a tree at a stream of water. Let’s look closer at hearing from God for the purpose of obeying. The result is that we will bear much fruit!

We are always in a hurry. We attribute it to scheduling too much, not often enough, or saying 'yes' when we should be saying 'no' to a request. But, when we look at the unhurried life of Jesus we see that it is something much simpler that will bring about the unhurried life.

Exploring the deep truths found in Jesus' response to this simple request.

There are 10 occasions where Jesus was in synagogue in the New Testament. Most of us have no idea what ‘synagogue’ was like and how significant it was to the people of Israel. But, there is a reason Jesus (and Paul) chose the synagogue for much of getting the Message out via the spoken word. But, there is so much more to this habit than ‘hearing a good sermon.’