First OPC Lectures

First OPC Lectures episodes

October 26 The Theme Is Practical Godliness
Not trials, works, or the rich and the poor: the architecture of James, and why the early church was slow to accept it.
1 hr
October 26 Reading James in 3-D
Why holiness is the crowning piece of God's saving activity, and why the critical approach can only ever read James in one dimension.
1 hr 20 min
September 06 Developing Ministry (1985-1997)
How one California congregation kept its buildings, called its pastors, and weathered a resignation between 1985 and 1997.
41 min
August 23 Transition and Crisis (1967-1975)
A new pastor sets a California church alight, then two resignations leave it facing crisis.
40 min
August 16 The Founding Era (1955-1973)
Where First OPC Sunnyvale got its name, and the men who started it in the 1950s.
42 min
August 09 The Early Life and Ministry of Henry Coray
From a Pennsylvania boyhood to missionary work in China, the making of the man who founded this church.
35 min
July 26 Did the First Amendment Secularize America?
48 min
July 19 Is This American? The Presbyterian Roots of the Revolution
41 min
May 31 The American Revision to the Westminster Confession
What American Presbyterians deleted from their confession about the state punishing false religion.
32 min
May 10 The Westminster Confession on the Civil Magistrate
What a confession written in the 1640s says government is for, and whether a Christian should hold office.
42 min

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Lectures from the Adult Sunday School Class at First OPC Sunnyvale, covering topics in the Bible, theology, Church history, and the Christian life.