Oak Hill Baptist Church

Let your light shine

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “In him was life, and that life was the light of men. That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.” John 1:4-5 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Let your light shine”

This morning we will continue our thinking about how it is that a commitment to lifelong learning brings out the best in us as we age. Learning about God and His ways is the most important aspect of lifelong learning, but the concept of lifelong learning extends to all of life. We should be curious, inquisitive, interested, and adventurous regarding all of life. What an amazing creation our Lord has given us to experience and enjoy!

Last week I was at a meeting of local pastors and a pastor friend of mine and I were talking about a mutual friend who is ninety-three. He got remarried just a few years ago and last year he and his new bride took a trip to Hawaii and went parasailing. Yes, you read that right, parasailing in Hawaii at ninety-three. Our friend is spry, full of life, and milking every moment of life for all it is worth. He is also a lifelong learner who has been fully engaged in his church his entire life, and he has always been committed to learning and growing – even still at ninety-three.

I have another friend who is in his sixties and who has already lived a full and adventurous life. But he too is a lifelong learner who remains inquisitive, interested, adventurous, and active. So much so that his love of life is infectious and his face literally radiates with enthusiasm and joy.

John 1:4-5 is about Jesus. He is life and light. But by extension the verse is also about us as Christians. If Jesus is life and light, and if His Spirit lives in us, then we should radiate with His life and light. It should show forth in our lives. So that then begs the question, “What was Jesus like?” and “In what ways did His life and light shine forth in the world?” Was Jesus reserved and withdrawn? Was he a couch-potato hibernating in His house binge-watching Netflix? Did He retire from His profession and from the practice of His faith and from life in general, and fritter away His days sleeping late, puttering in the garden, and playing golf?

No. Jesus was on-mission in the world, fully alive, fully engaged, embracing life, and enjoying it. And that’s how we should be too. The life and light of Jesus are alive and well in each of us. But does it show? Are we living like it? Are people inspired and encouraged by how you live your life?

I encourage all of us to let our lights shine. Explore, investigate, experience, learn, serve. If the life and light of Jesus is alive and well in us then let’s live like it.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Show some respect and learn

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?” Job 12:12 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Show some respect and learn”

Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God.” So said Moses in Leviticus 19:32. It is also what Job meant in Job 12:12 and it is advice we would all do well to heed today. If a Christian has been a lifelong learner, and if he or she has therefore aged well, that person is wise in the ways of God and we should listen to them. They will be like that sweet eighty-eight-year-old sister mentioned in yesterday’s devotional who at the age of eighty-eight published a book for children about becoming lifelong learners. She herself, even at an advanced age, was still active, curious, inquisitive, and learning. We can and should learn from people like her.

Increasingly in our day the wisdom of the aged is not respected. That’s especially true among younger people who are way too sure of themselves – to the point of being dogmatic and rigid. I remember the time when I had recently retired from the Navy and was learning how to be a pastor. I was serving as the associate pastor at our church and I was very much still the hard-charging Naval Officer turned minister who was going to change the world for Jesus. I was so sure of myself and so strong in my opinions! However, my Pastor, Oren Teel, was more than twenty years older than me, much wiser, and much more relaxed about things.

I can’t count the number of times I was in his office trying to help him see why the color of the new carpet needed to be green instead of brown, or why we needed to sing more praise songs and fewer hymns, or any number of other important issues that he just didn’t seem to be getting. He would just smile and urge me not to make such a big deal out of things that didn’t really matter very much. (Oren was rock-solid in his doctrine but much more relaxed about secondary issues.) It was so frustrating to me!

Little did I realize that I was arguing with a future version of myself and that as he was then, I was one day going to be. The lesson Oren was modeling for me and teaching me was that we should always, at all stages of life, be a little less dogmatic about secondary issues, less insistent about things that are more a matter of opinion and preference rather than a matter of faith, and realize that over time our perspective on such things may very well change as we continue to learn and grow. Therefore, we need to treat each other with grace and humility as we make this journey through life together, being less insistent about having things our own way and being much more gracious with each other.

That was an important life lesson that I needed to learn, and I learned it from a wiser older man who was a lifelong learner and who had aged well. I think I’m a better man today for being more like he was then instead of how I was then.

In our Bible passages today Moses and Job were both essentially saying, “Show some respect and learn.”

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Lifelong learning makes us strong

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “The person who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is in the Lord, is blessed. He will be like a tree planted by water. It sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Lifelong learning makes us strong”

I recently read a story about a wonderful Christian lady who at the age of eighty-eight published a book for Children. The book was about her own lifelong quest for learning and it encouraged the children to always be curious and inquisitive and to never stop learning. She even told them that at eighty-eight she was still learning every day.

In Jeremiah 17:7-8 (above) the prophet paints a picture of a man or woman of God who is faithful to practice the basic disciplines of the faith, day-in and day-out, and who therefore is like that tree planted by a river. It is a mighty tree with roots that run deep and spread out far, making the tree strong, sturdy, and durable. Then, when the wind blows and the storms rage, the tree stands strong. When a drought comes and there is no refreshment or nourishment on the surface, the deep roots draw on deep sources of water and therefore the tree remains green and healthy when everything else on the surface is wilting, turning brown, and dying.

That kind of deep spiritual growth does not happen quickly. Those deep roots, that kind of spiritual depth, develops slowly over years, and it happens as the man or woman of God quietly and faithfully applies him or herself to the practice of the faith day-in and day-out. This is what author Eugene Peterson once referred to as “a long obedience in the same direction.” Every day you pray, read your Bible, listen to Christian music, read Christian books, and associate with other Christians – and your roots grow a little deeper. When the church family meets for worship, study, prayer, fellowship, or acts of service, you are there, participating – and your roots grow deeper. Lifelong learning facilitates lifelong growing – and your roots grow deeper.

How do we get and stay spiritually strong? With a commitment to lifelong learning. That dear lady was eighty-eight and still enthusiastic, still curious, still inquisitive and learning – and also still teaching others. I don’t know about you, but I’m inspired. I would like to know her, and I would like to be like her. How about you?

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

We need strong men in tough times

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the Lord. But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship – the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living? As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord.” Joshua 24:14-15 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “We need strong men in tough times”

Happy Father’s Day! This is a shout-out to all my brothers who are out there being strong and courageous men of God in a culture that is resistant and even hostile to Biblical values. I am writing to those who are fathers, yes, but this is also to those who serve as father-figures and to those who are simply doing the hard work to boldly take a stand for righteousness in the middle of crazy a culture that is spinning out of control. These are tough times and we need strong men of God who will stand their ground without compromise (see yesterday’s devotional.)

Joshua was one of those strong, courageous, and bold men of God in his own day. He is a picture of Biblical manhood and he serves as a model for all men of God down through the ages. Joshua was the proverbial “Man of steel and velvet” described so well by author Audrey Andelin in his classic book about Biblical manhood by that same title. Such a man has a core of steel – it is a core formed by Biblical ethics. It is made of honesty, integrity, courage, and uncompromising virtue, and from which he will not deviate. But that core of steel is wrapped in an outer covering of velvet. He is kind, compassionate, merciful, generous, and friendly. He is a man who easily shows love and who is unashamed to speak of his faith, practice his faith, and live his faith, even when doing so is not easy and might even be opposed by the culture.

Joshua is a model of Biblical manhood and that being the case, he will be our example this Father’s Day at Oak Hill Baptist Church. I will be preaching from Joshua 24:14-15 and we will use that passage to help us explore the characteristics of Biblical manhood and the impact such a man can have in our homes, in our churches, and in our society. I invite you to join us, in-person if you can, or online otherwise.

These are tough times and we need strong men of God to stand for Biblical truth. A commitment to lifelong learning and to developing and maintaining a solid Biblical worldview are the keys to being a strong man in tough times.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Are you strong enough to stand your ground?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Are you strong enough to stand your ground?”

Are you strong enough to stand your ground? Don’t be too quick to answer that. Standing your ground in the face of intense pressure from the culture is not an easy thing to do. Sometimes it’s even costly. You might be “cancelled;” might be ridiculed; you might be ostracized; you might be trolled, shouted down, beat up, fired, or maybe even arrested. So, are you strong enough to stand your ground when it comes to maintaining and advocating for a Biblical worldview when the culture all around us is becoming increasingly antibiblical. Not just unbiblical, but antibiblical.

Sexual ethics is the most obvious case-in-point. God’s model of human sexuality and His standards for acceptable sexual conduct are clearly articulated in the Bible. Those standards have been understood, accepted, and practiced by cultures around the world for thousands of years. The meaning of those standards, as written in the original Biblical languages, have been agreed upon by the best Hebrew and Greek scholars across cultures and generations for thousands of years.

But despite that, not only has the non-Christian culture become increasingly antibiblical in terms of sexual ethics and practices, but many Christians have as well. There are many Christians today who, despite what the Bible clearly teaches on this subject, have become sadly progressive in their views on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, gender fluidity, gay clergy, and more. How can that be? How can those Christians read what God clearly has to say on the issue of sexuality and still somehow justify their unbiblical positions? The answer is that they are giving in to the cultural pressure. They are not standing their ground Biblically and so they simply go along in order to get along.

A few years ago, I wrote and published a book on this subject. The title is “Getting Along without Going Along: Biblical Sexual Ethics in An Age of Controversy and Conflict.” The object was to equip Christians to live effectively in our very confused, mixed-up, and hostile culture while standing our ground regarding Biblical sexual ethics. It is my contribution to the lifelong learning process that helps to enable Christians to be strong and to take a Biblical stand on the issue of sexual ethics. If you don’t have a copy of that book but would like one, let me know and I will be happy to send you one.

Are you strong enough to stand your ground? Often it isn’t easy to do so, but lifelong learning of Biblical truth helps to make us strong.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

Develop and maintain a Biblical worldview

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Develop and maintain a Biblical worldview”

This morning we will continue thinking about our subject from yesterday about being lifelong learners by being diligent students of the Bible. As was noted in yesterday’s devotional, the truths in the Bible are timeless and they apply to all people, in all places, at all times. The Bible is the eternal, timeless, Word of God and it doesn’t change according to the whims of the culture. The Bible provides us with God’s standards, and they are the standards by which everything else is compared, and by which every competing truth claim is evaluated.

A “worldview” is the sum total of our attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and values. It determines how we see, understand, and evaluate the world around us. It is then expressed in terms of ethics, politics, religion, and personal decision-making. When you encounter a situation and conclude “That is just wrong” it is your worldview that led you to that conclusion. Worldviews are commonly based upon religious beliefs, cultural norms, or a combination of both.

As Christians our worldview should be based on the Bible. Everything we see and hear in the world around us should be compared to, evaluated, and understood based upon how it compares to God’s standards as expressed in the Bible. Every truth claim the culture promotes should be laid alongside the Bible and then agreed with or opposed by us based upon whether or not it conforms to the standard of truth given to us by God.

I think you can see the problem for us. The culture is out of synch with the Bible – dramatically so. And so, the question for us is whether we will take our stand on the eternal truths of God’s Word, or if we will give in to the cultural pressures and just go along so we can get along. The Apostle Paul gives us the answer to that dilemma in Romans 12:2: Do not conform. Do not go along. Look to the Bible, discern God’s will, and stand for the truth. It is the lifelong learning acquired as diligent students of the Bible that helps us to develop and maintain that Biblical worldview.

I don’t mean to suggest that just because a Biblical worldview is right that it is also easy. It’s not easy. You know that. It has never been easy. In the 2000 years of Christian history the people of God have always found themselves out of synch with the worldview of the cultures around them.

Tomorrow we will continue this discussion by applying the Biblical worldview to some of the most contentious hot-button issues of our day. We will see how a commitment to lifelong learning of Biblical truths provides us with the courage and boldness we need to take our stand in the face of intense cultural pressures.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

Is the Bible your business too?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edge sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “The Bible is my business”

I once heard an old preacher say, “The Bible is my business.” What he meant was that since preaching and teaching the Word of God was his profession, everything he said and did, everything he preached and taught, had to be based in and grow out of the Bible. That being the case, he had to know the Bible extremely well and he never stopped studying it. The Bible was his business.

That should be true for all of us. The Bible should be our business. You don’t have to be a professional minister to be a lifelong student of the Word of God. And the amazing thing about the Bible is that none of us will ever learn all it has to teach us. No matter how much you have learned, there is always something more, something new waiting to be discovered.

This is why we must be lifelong learners. We will never know it all. God always has more for us. As Hebrews 4:12 says, the word of God is alive and active. Every time we read it the Holy Spirit brings the word alive in new and fresh ways – it speaks to us in personal ways, penetrating to the soul. This is what author Jim Peterson meant when he wrote, “One of the greatest gifts God has given us is the infinite opportunity for spiritual growth. But however much we have matured, there is always more beyond. It is in this that we find the adventure in living. There will always be new, unexplored dimensions of His person beckoning to us. The possibilities go off the chart.”

You may not be in professional ministry; you may not have the privilege of spending entire days exploring the Bible, writing about it, teaching it, and preaching it; but that doesn’t matter. The Bible should be your business too. It is the primary way in which God speaks to us and therefore we should all have the habit of exploring its depths every day. God will always have something new to show you, something more to say to you.

Also, because the word of God is alive, and because it applies to all people, in all places, at all times, that means the Bible has something to say about the issues of the day (regardless of the age of history you live in). The Bible is our guide for living; therefore, we need to be looking to the Bible for contemporary guidance every day. This is what it means to have a Biblical worldview and we will think more about that tomorrow.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

We have to come to our senses

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!’ I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.” Luke 15:17-18 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “We have to come to our senses”

Yesterday we thought about how it is that experience is such a great teacher. We also learned that sometimes learning hurts and our education comes in painful doses. I don’t want to be too quick to leave this subject because the fact is that we learn more from our difficult experiences in life than in almost any other way.

On Sunday nights at Oak Hill Baptist Church, we are conducting and in-depth study of the parable of the Prodigal Son, which is found in chapter fifteen of the Gospel of Luke. If you aren’t familiar with the parable, it’s the story of a young man who was raised in a wealthy family by a good and kind father. But as a rebellious teenager he demanded his share of the family inheritance from his father, and then he went off to a foreign land and wasted his wealth on wine, women, and song. Soon, his money was gone and he found himself living in great poverty – in a pigsty, starving and longing to eat even the fodder the pigs were feeding on.

Long story short, the boy had hit rock bottom. And it was then that he came to his senses. He realized what a fool he had been and that he had brought all his suffering on himself through a series of phenomenally bad choices. He also realized that the only thing that made any sense at this point was to return home and to beg his father’s forgiveness. He did, and … well, it’s a happy ending. You can read the entire story in Luke 15:11-32.

But why? Why did it turn into a happy ending for the prodigal? It was because he finally came to his senses. He acknowledged what a fool he had been, he repented, he asked forgiveness, he found forgiveness, and the rest, as they say, is history. The implication in Jesus’ story is that this was a major turning point in the young man’s life, and his time in the pigpen was one of the most profound and helpful lessons of his life.

Hitting rock bottom can be like that. Sometimes the best and most transformational life lessons come after spending some time in the pigpens of life (or, in some correspondingly bad set of circumstances.) But the key to getting out of the pigpen and to being restored is coming to our senses. We have to admit that God’s ways are right, our ways are wrong, and we then make the needed course correction in life.

Why does it sometimes take us so long to come to our senses? Probably because we are stubborn, thickheaded, and rebellious. But when we finally smarten-up and come to our senses, we often find that those prodigal son type experiences can end up being some of the most helpful and transformational moments in our lives. Why wait and longer? Forgiveness and restoration are available. You simply have to come to your senses.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

Sometimes learning hurts

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Then Job replied to the Lord: I know that you can do anything and no plan of yours can be thwarted.” Job 42:1-2 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Sometimes learning hurts”

I’ve heard it said that “Sometimes stupid hurts,” and I’m sure that is true. It means that when we do stupid things, we experience unpleasant results. I remember also once being told that sometimes learning hurts, and education often comes through pain.

That was said to me by a college professor at the University of Kansas. I was taking a class in debate and was required to participate in a debate tournament. I hate debating. I always have. I don’t like to argue – not even for fun and certainly not for a grade. But for this class I was required to participate in a debate tournament against debating teams from other universities. It was torture for me and it showed. Thus, as he was chuckling at my discomfort, the professor said, “Sometimes learning hurts, and education often comes through pain.”

That statement is true and it is the lesson Job learned through his long period of suffering recorded for us in the book of Job. Job suffered a lot, but he also learned a lot and he came out of it a better and stronger man. (I suppose I also came out of my debating experience a bit better and smarter as well, but I still didn’t like it.)

There are many ways we engage in lifelong learning, but experience is certainly one of the most important. Sometimes we just have to experience things (sometimes painful things), in order to learn the lessons God wants us to learn. It’s usually not fun or pleasant, but it is important. Experience is an excellent teacher.

The question for us is if we will learn from our experiences, and if we will use those experiences to become better. Job did. He was a better man on the other side of those struggles. I suppose I was too. Through my unpleasant debate experience I learned a lesson about the value of good preparation, and about how to cross verbal swords with other people to make a point, and about sticking with something and seeing it through even if I’m not liking it.

Learning sometimes does hurt, and education does sometimes come through pain. But experience is a good teacher and the smart person will learn from his or her experiences.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)

Will you worship Him in the middle of it all?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “He said to mankind, “The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom. And to turn from evil is understanding.” Job 28:28 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Will you worship Him in the middle of it all?”

The other morning, in my personal Bible study time, as I was reading through the book of Job, I came across something interesting that I hadn’t noticed before in all the other times I have read this story. The book of Job is forty-two chapters that record an extended period of terrible suffering for the man Job – all with little understanding on Job’s part regarding why these bad things were happening to him.

But in the middle of that mess, in chapter twenty-eight, Job pauses to recite what has come to be known by Bible scholars as “Job’s hymn to wisdom.” It’s a hymn (presumably sung), about Biblical wisdom. Most of the lines in it declare that only God is all-wise and that God’s wisdom is perfect.

A hymn. About the perfect wisdom of God. Sung in the middle of suffering.

A hymn is a form of worship and so that means that in the middle of all his suffering, Job pauses to worship God and to sing about the wonder and the rightness of God and His ways. Could you do that? Could I? In Job chapter one, as his story begins, we discover that Job was a man of complete integrity who feared God and who turned away from evil. In verse 8 of that chapter God Himself bragged about Job’s faith and integrity to Satan. We’re reading evidence of this now in chapter twenty-eight.

Job had spent a lifetime learning about God and coming to truly know Him. Therefore, he had strong faith in place to carry him through the worst of times imaginable. So much so, that in the middle of his great suffering he was still able to pause and sing a hymn declaring God to be all-wise and His ways to be right.

Today is Saturday. Tomorrow is Sunday when the people of God will gather for worship. All of us will bring with us things going on in our lives that we wish were not there. We will all be struggling in some way – some of us in major ways. Do you know God well enough to sing praises to Him in the middle of your struggles? Can you still declare that He is all-wise and that His ways are right and perfect? Have you learned from past experiences that God is good and His ways are right even if your current circumstances are hard and you’re confused about what’s happening and why?

Do you know Him well enough to worship Him in the middle of it all?

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you’re 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)