Dear OBC,When the Fall season hits, it usually signifies a season of change. The leaves may change colors, and temperatures starts to cool, but we can take hope in the fact that some things will not change like... singing. From the beginning of creation where the angels sang at the creation of the world (Job 38:7), to eternity where we will join in the song of the New Creation (Revelation 5, 14, &...  Read More

Hello brothers,We’re relaunching our Men’s Bible Reading Groups, and we invite you to read through the books of Ephesians and Philippians with us during the final quarter of 2025. If you are interested, please RSVP here with this availability survey by September 20.Small Groups for Bible Discussion and PrayerInstead of a teacher/student format, our aim is that these groups would be places for mutu...  Read More

Dear OBC Family, This week is full of ministry activity as we’re restarting Discipleship Night, College & Career, Women’s Book Club, our monthly Men’s Breakfast, and Sunday School. As this Sunday is the first Sunday of the month, our high school and adult classes will meet together in the sanctuary for our time of Great Commission Prayer, and we look forward to a visit and report from missionaries...  Read More

As we finish up our Summer Sabbath for the month of August, we have a number of ministries that we are excited to restart. Below you find a list of ministries and what they are focusing on this Fall. Please be in prayer for all these ministries as we seek to preach the Gospel and disciple our family of faith.Sermon Series:Pastor Ben will be preaching through a series on the epistle of 1 Thessaloni...  Read More

As we are in our mid-summer ministry pause for the month of August, it’s a good time to look ahead at what’s coming up and think about the ways we can be praying for our church family.   Read More

We are relaunching our Men’s Bible Reading Groups, and we invite you to read through the book of Judges this summer and meet up with your brothers for weekly times of discussion and prayer. If you are interested, please RSVP here with this availability survey by May 15.  Read More

“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...  Read More

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.   Read More

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...  Read More

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...  Read More

On Sunday, we take the next step in thinking about ordering our lives around the altar of God’s worship. Three weeks ago, we considered how the altar takes priority over the city in the life of the Christian. Last Sunday, we looked at the way our watches are set by that worship. And this Sunday, we will begin to think about our households.Indeed, when God made the world, he created the universe to...  Read More

Welcome to Quitter’s Day.Until this week, I didn’t even know that such a day existed. Sure, I was familiar with the fact that the gym seems a lot less crowded by the end of January. But I didn’t know that we coronated the breaking of New Year’s resolutions with an unofficial holiday. But some do, and today USA Today even ran a brief article on it.Apparently, the Second Friday of the new year is du...  Read More