“And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”Matthew 25:46 A car accident. A football game. Black Friday at the mall. And the cross of Christ.What do these things have in common? For starters, each of these events draw a crowd.Indeed, since God commanded his image-bearers to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 9:1–7) and scattered the nations over the earth (Gen...

Dear OBC Family,Today is Palm Sunday, and this marks the beginning of the events of Holy Week which will lead us to Resurrection Sunday.To help guide you through this week, we would like to share a Bible reading plan, a devotional series, and Spotify playlists for each day. Here is a Bible reading plan that can be a helpful guide to each day of Holy Week. In addition to that, here is a devotional ...

This Sunday we will begin this year’s church history Sunday School series, Medieval Church History: From Numidia to Byzantium. Our survey of church history will take us from the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, to the end of the Byzantine Empire as Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. This Sunday we will begin with Augustine of Hippo, in the Roman province of Numidia.In the weeks ahea...

This Sunday we return to the book of Genesis, and for the next few months we will be following the promises of God through the perils of the patriarchs.As we spent last year in Genesis 1–11, we learned that it is impossible to understand the work of God in his world without understanding the beginning. This includes creation (Genesis 1–2), fall (Genesis 3), and the pattern of salvation and judgmen...