Our God does not want His children to be timid and fearful of Him. This message will explain how God loves His children and how you can experience a fear free life.

To experience faith in God one must experience God. What is that encounter like? Also, there are times when faith cannot know but must believe.

The love of God is manifested to us in several ways. In this text His love is manifested in two gifts He has given.

Can you be concerned about something and not be guilty of unbiblical worry? Can you exercise faith while at the same time be greatly concerned about something? This message shows the relationship between faith and worry and how you can be greatly troubled and your faith not waver.

God is the source of love, and since God has loved us, then all Christian should love one another. This is the thrust is of this text. Listen and so exult in the love of God.

Although Christianity has a subjective quality it must bow to the subjective. Every spirit must be tested otherwise you become prey to deception. Truth must rule and it must be definitional.

In an impromptu message to Oak Grove Baptist Church, Pastor Michael Durham responds to the testimony on the beauty of suffering. There's nothing beautiful about suffering until the gospel enters the equation.

The Apostle John takes the ultimate test of assurance out of the realm of the subjective and places it where it belongs—in the objective. Assurance is based upon the work of God in the life of the believer.

Your prayer life is either helped or hindered by how much you love Christian brother and sisters. In this message Michael Durham shows the relationship between love, Christian assurance, and prayer.

Several years ago the deacon ministry at Oak Grove Baptist Church was suspended because it was not based upon biblical mandates. This message reestablishes the Bible's definition and description of a true deacon ministry. It is a ministry of mercy.