Jacob wanted the blessing of his father, Isaac. He wanted it so bad that he deceived his father to gain the blessing. He pretended to be someone he wasn’t. In this message, Michael Durham shows how we often think that we have to be someone else to get God’s blessings.

The believer in Jesus is to live life in the overflow of God’s love. This is the resource for the Christian life. In this sermon, Michael Durham explains how to live in the overflow.

Covetousness is a serious sin that we don’t like talking about, but it’s something that must be discussed. In this message, Michael Durham explains what covetousness is and how you can discern it in your own heart. He finishes by demonstrating the antidote to the spirit of covetousness.

God truly loves sinful men and desires them to be saved. Those who do not believe upon and in the Gift of God, Jesus Christ, they condemn themselves. But God’s love still remains for them even though His wrath abides on them. The theological greats of history have marveled at this unique ability of God to love and yet remain just to His creation.

Evangelism is as simple as obeying the Great Commandment. In this last message of the series we learn who are neighbor is how to love them as we are on mission for Jesus.

Evangelism has become too programmed and less organic. It also has been misconstrued as an individual rather than a community project. In this message, Real Truth Matter’s Director and Oak Grove Baptist Church’s senior pastor, Michael Durham explains that each member of the church is gifted to do outreach and how being on mission is the natural result of who we are and our spiritual gifts.

Most churches have been traditionally non-missional in thinking and approach. This message outlines the way back to the a New Testament missional mind-set.

A wrong mindset concerning the church has replaced the life of the church with programs and systems. If the church is going to be on mission, fulfilling God’s design, a new psychology must be adopted. We must develop a missional mind.

The church is a community of believers on mission, the mission of Jesus Christ. But does this mission truly permeate our thinking and our doing. Listen as Michael Durham explains what is the mission of Christ and what it has to do with us.

Small groups are not the answer but small groups can serve the purpose of the local church. Listen and discover what the purpose of the church is and how we must adopt something more than a “worship service” mentality.