Dear OCBF Employees, We trust all is well on your end. Due to the inclement weather, all OCBF facilities will be closed through Friday, February 19. Employees who can work...
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Dear Members, We pray that you are warm and safe in this unseasonably freezing Texas weather. So many individuals and families are without power and have no place to go....
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In protest to a racial norm, Jesus Christ – while maintaining his own racial history and heritage – obeyed the will of God.
Dear Members, Living in the world and not being of it is no easy task. The only cure against becoming a lukewarm disciple is to reset priorities and invest in...
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Believers must address their spiritual confusion and follow Jesus if they want to receive the rewards of discipleship.
Every believer must allow God to awaken and reset our priorities to experience what it means to be successful and fully alive in Christ.
As followers of Jesus, we must understand that true success in life is directly related to the level of our experiential knowledge of God.
Dear Members, Believers can be duped into religious rituals at the expense of a relationship with Jesus Christ. This happens when we stack man-made additions and/or traditions on top of...
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Your intimacy with the Lord should be the driving force of your life, but you first must invite Him in and spend time with Him.
Life disruptions come with the human experience. With each disruption, there is an opportunity for a reset.
Jesus intended for the church to be the transformational environment for the Spirit of God to ignite His people.
With God’s help, we can anticipate a great and productive year with new beginnings and a fresh wind to meet every challenge and victory.
2020 was quite a tumultuous year. We are grateful to our mighty God that, through His Spirit, we didn’t have to face it alone.
To experience the full power of the Holy Spirit, you must connect the risen Christ with the written Word of God.
We should be glad that we can end the year with the celebration of the birth of Christ! Have a very Merry and Safe Christmas!
Dear Members, The Holy Spirit is the person of the Trinity who is most actively with us now, and He is indispensable to our Christian life. If there were no...
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When you are under the Spirit’s control—hate gives way to love, stubbornness to understanding and dissension to unity.
When life causes us to groan, The Holy Spirit has a responsibility to help when you are collapsing in your soul.
As we approach the end of a very tumultuous year, there has never been a more critical time for our church family to fast and pray.
Dear Members, One of the most powerful illustrations of faith is a grateful heart bursting with thanksgiving for all the good God has done, is doing, and will do through...
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Dear Members, As the spread of COVID-19 continues to spike, you may be limited in your plans for Thanksgiving. But the good news is Christ, through His Spirit, is not...
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How do we approach the issue of race from a kingdom mindset? It requires that each of us view ourselves first as Christians.
As we look toward the closing of 2020, you and I can recount many challenges that it has presented. God, however, remind us to trust Him.
As Kingdom Citizens, our devotion is to the Lord. We should influence whatever areas of culture to which God has allowed us to be a part.
Are you experiencing election anxiety? Take a deep breath . . . several if you need to. Remember who you are and to whom you belong in Christ.
As Kingdom Voters facing an election in a time when even Christians cannot agree, we must remember who is Lord.
