Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “What the world needs now”   Our Bible verse for today: “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke 6:35-36 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “Loving on purpose”   I once read a story about a woman who was kidnapped and brutally raped. Ultimately the man who did it was arrested, convicted, and sent to prison. But the memory of that event haunted the woman. She was emotionally scarred and had a deep hatred for the man who did that to her.   Through the struggle of trying to deal with the pain, she came to the point of placing her faith in Christ and soon discovered she was able to forgive the man who did that to her. There even came a day when she visited the rapist in prison. She sat across the glass window from him, looked into his eyes and said, “I forgive you for what you did to me. What you did was wrong, and I’m glad you are being punished for it, but in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you.”   Later she said, “It was the last thing in the world that I wanted to do. I was physically sick at the thought of seeing him again. On an emotional level, I was afraid of him; I was repulsed by him; and – I have to be honest – I hated him. But with my husband’s support and with the prayers of many Christian friends, I was able to go to the prison and face him and say what I had to say. My feelings were not the issue. I knew that what God wanted was my obedience. He wanted me to love that man with my will and with my words, even though in my emotions I couldn’t stand the sight of him.”   “He wanted me to love that man with my will and with my words, even though in my emotions I couldn’t stand the sight of him.” What a powerful and important truth! The fact is that oftentimes love is a decision to act rather than an emotion we feel. Sometimes we have to act in love towards people – on purpose, whether we feel love for them or not. It has often been said that “Love is a verb. It is an action word.” That statement is very true and it is what Jesus calls for from His followers.   Over the next several days I will share with you some of the points from that sermon / teaching session I delivered all those years ago to that group of Gypsy Christians I told you about in the previous two devotionals. The title of the sermon was “Loving on Purpose” and it was all about God’s love being dispensed through intentional acts of ministry by the followers of Jesus.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “What the world needs now”   Our Bible verse for today: “And there will be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26 (KJV)   Our thought for today: “Cover them with God’s love”   When the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel used the phrase “there shall be showers of blessing” in Ezekiel 34:26, he was referring specifically to how God would bless His people once they repented and returned to Him. That was the specific context but I love the imagery of God’s blessings falling down upon people like a fresh spring rain, and it fits well with the story I want to share with you this morning.   In yesterday’s devotional I told you about the time I was in a small Gypsy farming village sharing a message of encouragement with a group of Gypsy Christians who were trying to reach their village for Jesus. My subject was about how to impact people with the love of Jesus. I noted that the strategy Jesus teaches is for His followers to engage in small acts of kindness and compassion and that cumulatively, as those acts are carried out by dozens, hundreds, and thousands of His followers, the little acts altogether combine to have a big impact. To illustrate that point I told them this story about a snowmaking machine in the mountains of Southern California.   In those years I was living in Southern California and I enjoyed snow skiing. There are mountains just outside of Los Angeles that are over 8000 feet high. They do get snow and there are ski resorts there. But often they don’t get enough natural snow and therefore, they have machines that make snow. The machine has a long barrel protruding from it with hundreds of small pinprick holes in it. Then large volumes of high-pressure water are forced through it, producing a fine mist of atomized water. The machine is mounted on a swivel so it can rotate from side-to-side, and the barrel also rotates up and down. Therefore, as the machine rotates side-to-side, up-and-down, shooting its fine mist of water up into the cold night air, the mist of water freezes and falls back to the ground as snow.   Because the machine rotates as it does, it produces a blanket of snow on the ground. But if the machine malfunctions or if isn’t properly aligned, there will be a bare spot on the ground that should have been covered by snow.   Now understand, in the remote regions of the Carpathian Mountains in those little Gypsy villages snow is not a fun thing to be played with. Instead, it is a major problem that traps them in their remote villages and in their homes, and it pretty much shuts down life. When I told them that story they had looks of amazement on their faces. One older gentleman stood up and in wonder asked, “In America you actually “make” snow? On purpose??” Then he smiled, shook his head, and said, “You crazy Americans!”   The point of the illustration is that Christians should be like that snowmaking machine. But instead of making snow we should be dispensers of God’s love, covering the earth with His love. However, if one of us is not properly doing our job to blanket the earth with God’s love, there will be bare spots that should have been covered in His love. My challenge to them and to us is this: “Who should be covered in God’s love because they were around you?”   I encourage you to do your part today to cover your little part of the world with God’s love.   God bless, Pastor Jim    (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “What the world needs now”   Our Bible verse for today: “And the King will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:40 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Small acts of great love”   One time, when I was on a mission trip in the Carpathian Mountains of the Transylvania region of central Romania, I spent a Sunday in a small gypsy farming village. There was a little Baptist church in the village with a small congregation of faithful believers. The pastor had invited me to preach an evangelistic sermon on Sunday morning, since many unbelievers would be coming to see the preacher from the USA. Then I spent the afternoon visiting in the homes of some of the church members. Then my assignment on Sunday evening was to preach/teach a message of encouragement to the small group of believers who were attempting to reach their village for Jesus.   The gypsies are a difficult culture to penetrate with the gospel. They are a despised minority in Eastern Europe and they are treated very badly by ethnic Romanians and by the Romanian government. That has caused deep-rooted resentment in the gypsy community and their hearts are often hard and cold. But Romanian Christians work hard to share Jesus with them. They serve the gypsies in the name of Jesus by showing them the love of Jesus.   That evening, I preached a sermon and led a discussion about sharing the love of Jesus in word and deed (I will share elements of that sermon with you in the days to come). One of the passages I referred to in that teaching session was Matthew 25:31-40 where Jesus instructed us to love the world on His behalf and to do so by means of small acts of love and kindness. In that passage He used as His examples giving food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, housing for the homeless, and clothing for the naked. He referred to visiting the sick and those in prison and He said that those small acts of love and kindness are so important to Him that when we do them, He receives them as if we had done them for Him personally.   That’s how important and effective small acts of love and kindness are in our efforts to introduce people to Jesus. In yesterday’s devotional I referred to the song “What the world needs now is love sweet love …” That really is true and what Jesus was teaching in this passage was that the love of Jesus, expressed by the followers of Jesus, in thousands of small ways every day, is one of the most effective methods of reaching someone for Christ. Mother Teresa of Calcutta instructed her students to remember, “There are no great acts of love, only small acts done in great ways.”   To illustrate that point for my audience of gypsies that evening, I told them a story about a snowmaking machine in the mountains of Southern California. I’ll tell you that story tomorrow.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “What the world needs now”   Our Bible verse for today: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)   Our thought for today: “This is what the world needs”   Okay, sing it with me, “What the world needs now is love sweet love, that’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love sweet love. No, not for some, but for everyone …”   Some of you are old enough to recognize that hit song from 1965. It was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, and sung by Jackie DeShannon. Granted, it’s a bit shmaltzy (excessively sentimental) – maybe even cheesy, but it is sweet and it does communicate a great truth. This world needs a whole lot more loving than it is currently getting. We live in a loud, angry, violent world that seems to be getting louder, angrier, and more violent by the day.   So, what’s a Christian to do? How do we live as effective and authentic disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ when the world is in chaos around us and we are engulfed in it? The Bible teaches that we are to be “in” the world but not “of” the world (John 17:16). But how does that work? How can we be surrounded by and participating in the chaotic world around us without being overwhelmed by it and perhaps even being drawn into the ugliness? How do we make a meaningful difference for Christ, being part of the solution rather than part of the problem?   John 3:16 is without question the most important verse in the New Testament and it communicates the greatest truth known to mankind. God gave the world Jesus, and then He gave the world the followers of Jesus to carry on what Jesus started. If Jesus is an expression of God’s love for the world, then by extension so are we the disciples of Jesus.   All this month we will explore the wonder of God’s love for mankind and the impact God’s love can and should be having on this hurting and bleeding world of ours. We will pay particular attention to the role each of us are to be playing in spreading that love.   What the world needs now is love sweet love – the sweet love of Jesus – and it’s up to you and me to make sure that need is met.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.” Hebrews 6:19 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Jesus is the anchor of your soul”   I’m an old sailor. A retired Naval Officer. Most of my career in the Navy was spent on aircraft carriers. An aircraft carrier is huge – a floating city. Fully manned it has a crew of over 5000 sailors. It has sleeping quarters, multiple kitchens and eating areas, a laundry, stores, gymnasiums, even a multi-channel television station! And so much more. The average modern aircraft carrier weighs more than 100,000 tons.   One of the things that always amazed me was how a ship that size could be firmly held in place by an anchor. Now, the anchors on an aircraft carrier are huge by themselves, but compared to the overall size of that ship, they are miniscule. Yet, somehow that tiny (by comparison) anchor, once it is firmly embedded in the sea bottom, holds that huge ship in place. That’s the power of a firm anchor.   In a spiritual sense Jesus is our firm anchor. That’s what Hebrews 6:19 teaches. The hope the verse refers to is the promise of God that we have salvation through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. That truth then becomes the anchor that holds us firm in the storms we face in life, but it also holds us firm in the bosom of God for all eternity. Jesus is our firm anchor. He holds us fast, secure, and stable.   But it is possible for a ship to break free from its anchor and to then be set adrift. Likewise, it is possible for the Christian to break free from Jesus. I’m not talking about losing your salvation, but becoming untethered from Him and no longer being held securely in the truth of sound doctrine and good practice. When that happens, the Christian is no longer secure and will instead be adrift on the sea of life, being carried along by the cultural tides. That person is going to get tossed and battered by the storms of life and perhaps even end up shipwrecked on the rocks.     As we conclude this series about salvation past, present, and future, and as we continue our journey through this world living in the reality of salvation present, it’s essential for us to stay firmly tethered to Jesus. He is the anchor of your soul.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “The purpose of the journey”   As a Christian your life is a journey through this world towards your real home in heaven. But as we have learned, it’s during this life that you are to grow in Christlikeness and in spiritual maturity. And that growth process will have a direct bearing on what eternity will be like for you. The purpose of your journey through this life is to prepare yourself so you can experience for all eternity all the fullness of God that Paul wrote about.   However, life can be hard and the journey often takes us through deep and dark valleys. Those are troubling times that bring with them pain and heartache. We all wish we didn’t have to face situations like that but that’s just life and we do have to deal with it. However, God walks with us through those times in the valleys. He also strengthens us for the struggle and helps us to deal with the trials. And if we draw close to Him and rely on Him, then those times become some of the most formative spiritual moments in this long journey.   Author John Eldredge once wrote a great devotional book to help us through times like that. The title is “Restoration Year.” It consists of 365 daily devotionals and it is designed to assist a Christian in picking up the pieces and moving forward in life after a life-altering event. Here’s a piece from one of those daily devotionals that I found particularly helpful. Maybe you will too:   “We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of our existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus … The purpose of your being here on this planet, at this moment in time, comes down to three things: (1) Love Jesus with all that is within you. (2) To share your daily life with Him. (3) To allow his life to fill yours.” And I would add a fourth to that list – we are to spend our time on earth serving others in His name.   That’s the purpose of the journey and it’s the reason God still has you on this planet living this life – it’s so you can get to know Jesus better, grow spiritually, become more like Him, and continue to serve others on His behalf until He is ready for you to come to heaven. Doing that helps you to grow spiritually and it prepares you for the reward of your salvation – eternity in heaven.     You have been saved, you are saved, you will continue to be saved, and one day your eternity in paradise is going to be glorious. You will then experience all the fullness of God. But until then – live. Just live fully every day and make the most of the journey.     God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “He answered, ‘Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Feed your soul”   Yesterday we ended with the thought that we need to live like we’re headed for heaven. That’s true. Now that we are nearing the end of our study of salvation past, present, and future, I want to shift our attention back to the topic of salvation present and how we are to live while we’re moving through this life towards the consummation of our salvation in eternity. As we have learned, how well you prepare yourself now will determine what eternity will be like for you later.   In Matthew 4:4 Jesus referred to a great truth about living the Christian life. There, as He was responding to the temptations posed by Satan while He was in the wilderness, Jesus said that even more than He needed physical food to sustain His body He needed spiritual nourishment for His soul. He made a similar statement in John 4:32;34 when he told them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about … My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.”   This reminded me of a great insight shared by the famous Christian philosopher Dallas Willard. Dallas was one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the last generation. Much of his ministry was focused on helping Christians develop a deeper practice of the Christian faith and to thereby grow much deeper in spiritual maturity. He spent his entire life preparing himself for the eternity in heaven that he is now enjoying, and he helped others to prepare themselves as well. Here’s what he had to share about caring for your soul and growing spiritually:   “What’s running your life at any given moment is not your external circumstances, not your thoughts, not your intentions, not even your feelings, it’s your soul. The soul is that aspect of your whole being that correlates, integrates, and enlivens anything going on in the various dimensions of the self. You don’t direct your soul you feed it, then the soul directs you.”   “You don’t direct your soul you feed it, then your soul directs you.” What a critical understanding that is! The most important thing you can do to live well now, grow spiritually, and to prepare yourself for eternity is to feed your soul every day. Feed it well. Feed it on the Word of God, on worship, on acts of service, and on fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ.    I encourage you to feed your soul and to feed it well, today and every day.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Live like you are headed to heaven”   In the end, salvation is about spending eternity with God. The three phases of the salvation process accomplished that for us. If you have already placed your faith in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, then phase one is a done deal for you and your salvation is secure. You are now in the second phase of being sanctified as God prepares you for eternity, and you are headed towards the third and final stage – the consummation of your salvation. But as long as you are on this earth, you are somewhere in that second phase.   So, what impact should your new and fuller understanding of the entire doctrine of salvation have on how you live now? That’s what Paul was writing about in Philippians 3:13-14. The Apostle Peter wrote about it also in 1 Peter 2:9-12:   “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of the darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourself honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.” Also, in 2 Peter 3:11-14, “… it is clear what kind of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness as you wait for the day of God and hasten its coming.”   We are the people of God, saved by grace through faith in Jesus, called to be a holy people who bring honor to our heavenly Father. We are to be people who live with the knowledge and understanding that we are just passing through this world on a journey towards our real home in heaven.   I encourage you to live each day with the certain knowledge that you are a child of God, headed for a glorious eternity in a perfect paradise prepared for you by Jesus Himself. Let your thoughts, words, and deeds be governed by that great truth. Be joyful, kind, and merciful, and share with others the good news that they too can have salvation through faith in our Lord Jesus. That’s the impact our understanding of salvation should have on how we live now.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future” Our Bible verse for today: “God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you. I thirst for you; my body faints for you in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.”  Psalm 63:1 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Your longing for God will be fulfilled” Psalm 63:1 is one of my favorite expressions about longing for and seeking after God. Psalm 42:1-2 is another, “As the deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God. I thirst for God, for the living God. When can I come and appear before God?” Two other expressions about longing for God that I have always appreciated come from the minds of two great Christian thinkers. The first is from Saint Augustine writing sometime around 400 A.D.: “You have made us for Yourself, Oh God, and our heart is restless, searching, until we find our rest in you.” The other comes from the French philosopher Blaise Pascal writing around 1650, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of man that can only be filled by God.” All four of those expressions are consistent with what Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that “God has placed eternity in the heart of man.” God created human beings with an innate understanding that He does exist. We also have a deep longing to know and experience Him. That’s why every culture that has ever existed in the history of the human race has always had religious beliefs. All cultures have had a belief that there is a spiritual world, there is a God (or gods), and there is more than just this life. That’s simply how God has designed us – with an inner desire to know and experience Him.  Today we can know and experience Him by means of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and with the Holy Spirit living in our heart. That relationship goes a long way towards filling the God-shaped vacuum in our hearts and satisfying our innate longing for God. It goes a long way – but it still falls short. There is still that longing; there continues to be a sense that there’s much more about God that I don’t know or understand. The longing is still there.  However, in heaven the limits and restrictions between God and His people will be removed. Then we will see Him as He is, and being in His presence will be our primary joy. It won’t be our only joy – as we have learned in this series, we will spend eternity exploring and enjoying a spectacular perfected creation. But being in the presence of God and seeing Him as He really is will be the best thing about eternity. In that day, there will never be a time when you are not aware of His presence, and the longing for Him which you have always had will be fully filled.  You will see God and know Him as He really is.  God bless, Pastor Jim  (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at http://www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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Good morning everyone,   Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”   Our Bible verse for today: “… the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.” Romans 8:21-22 (CSB)   Our thought for today: “Eternity will not be boring”   No, eternity will certainly not be boring. We will have lots of interesting and wonderful things to do – and the new earth will feature prominently in our activities. As Romans 8:21-22 reminds us, the old earth and all creation has been marred by sin and is therefore spoiled in many ways. But the new creation will be perfect and we will spend all eternity enjoying it. In his book “Heaven” author Randy Alcorn made an important observation about God’s creation. He wrote, “… by finding happiness in God’s creation we will find happiness in him.”   This is an important and helpful observation. It tells us something about eternity. But it also provides insight that is helpful to us now as we enjoy life on the current earth. Perhaps you have heard it said that we will spend eternity worshiping and praising God. That’s a true statement, but a big part of that worshiping and praising will consist of simply enjoying and appreciating what He has created.   God’s creation is His beautiful and wonderful handiwork. His creation is a source of joy and pleasure for Him. When we His people enjoy and appreciate what He has created, that is a form of worshiping and praising Him. That’s true now in this lifetime (even in our fallen and broken world), but it will be even truer in eternity as we enjoy and appreciate a redeemed and perfected creation forever.   Also, when the current creation passes away it’s not that God is going to replace it with things that are entirely different, but rather that God will make all things new. He will take what exists and improve it to the point of perfection. The current creation is a reflection of the creation to come. It will be similar but perfect. Think for a moment about how much you enjoy God’s current creation. When you appreciate and enjoy what He has created, that is an act of worship and praise. That will be true in eternity too but to a much greater extent.   In eternity you will be with friends and loved ones enjoying the perfect existence you have always longed for. You will laugh and sing; you will eat and drink; you will rejoice and enjoy endless pleasures; you will marvel at all the good and perfect things our wonderful God has created. If you are enjoying God’s creation now, you will really enjoy it then!   Next, we will think about what our relationship with God will be like in that day and then we will end our series with some thoughts about what impact all of this should have on how we live now.   God bless, Pastor Jim   (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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