These days, it is more convenient to pull up your favorite Bible app on your phone than to carry a physical one to church. After all, in...

I can see the grass airstrip coming into view just beyond the trees. Having just returned from taking supplies to several missionary...

Unlike many understandings of the church, Baptists view each local congregation as autonomous, meaning that they are not under the...

From time to time, I will post on social media that “Sunday morning worship is a Saturday night decision.” This little sentence of...

The most significant pair of events in world history are the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. No set of occurrences have had more...

Every year around the time of Easter, I try to make a point of listening to Handel’s Messiah in its entirety. It is over two hours of...

In the past few months, several truths have struck me with both heavy conviction and gospel-centered hope. The first came from a podcast,...

Does the church really need preaching? In a world with ever-shrinking attention spans, on-demand media consumption, and the impending...

God has ordained two offices in the local church: elders and deacons. At Oak Park, we understand and are comfortable discussing what elders...