Oak Hill Baptist Church

This is why we should desire lifelong learning

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “This is why we should desire lifelong learning”

Before we delve into the mechanics of lifelong learning, it will be helpful to consider why we should want it to begin with and what it is leading us to. Although there are many good reasons to be a lifelong learner, including career enhancement, developing new skills, keeping your brain strong and healthy, and more, I believe there are two reasons that are more important than the others.

One of those reasons was expressed nicely and musically by Jimmy Buffet when he sang “I’d rather die while I’m living than live while I’m dead.” In other words, life is better when we live it fully. Too many people shuffle through life bored and without direction. It’s as if they’re just trudging along to the grave, one step after another – just enduring life and getting through it. But an attitude of lifelong learning helps to keep us interested in life, focused and fresh. On the day I die I want to still be living fully.

But for the Christian there’s a more important reason to be a lifelong learner and it is expressed for us by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 (above). There he describes what he called “the fruit of the Spirit.” These are attributes of Jesus that the Holy Spirit works to develop and bring out in us. The more we learn and grow in terms of knowledge and life experience (Biblical knowledge and godly living), the more we are transformed into the image of Jesus. In other words, those attributes of Jesus progressively come to be true of us. This is what lifelong learning and continuous growth results in for the Christian. You become more like Jesus. That’s the ultimate goal.

There are many good reasons to be a lifelong learner, and we will discuss some of them this month. But for the Christian the two most important are to become more like Jesus, and to be fully and enthusiastically engaged in life, living every day as the gift from God that it is. An attitude of lifelong learning will help to ensure that is true of you.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Let’s encourage and build each other up

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Let’s encourage and build each other up”

This morning I want to take us back to the first devotional in this series where I described my own journey to becoming a lifelong learner. I went from being a troubled child who struggled with learning to someone with college degrees, a career as a naval officer, and then another as a pastor.

But let me be clear, there’s no boasting in that story. Left to myself, I would have spent a lifetime struggling and believing myself to be dumb and inadequate. My life turned out differently entirely as a result of the influential people God kept putting in my path. The Lord was guiding me and directing me even when I didn’t know it and even when I wasn’t honoring Him with my life. He kept bringing people into my life who cared about me, encouraged me, and inspired me. They were people who believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself.

Whether we’re talking about the division officer on my first ship who encouraged me to earn my high school diploma, or my wife who talked me into taking my first college courses, or the professor who counseled me not to quit just because the courses were hard, or those who led me to Christ, or my mentors in ministry, or the co-worker who encouraged me to write my first book, or a dozen other key influential people along the way, any success I’ve had can be attributed to them and their positive influences. I thank God for the influential people He has blessed me with all throughout my life. Without them, my life would have turned out very differently.

In 1 Thessalonians 5:1 Paul tells us to be intentional about encouraging one another and to build each other up. He writes that because this is something we all need. All of us need to be encouraged and built up by others. We need people in our lives who believe in us and who will spur us on to bigger and better things. I encourage you to ask God to bring such people into your life.

No matter who you are or what stage of life you are in, we all need people to encourage us, build us up, and to help us to keep moving forward. Do you have such people in your life? And, are you such a person in someone else’s life? Let’s encourage and build each other up.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Life is a grand adventure

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “He awakens me each morning; he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.” Isaiah 50:4b (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Life is a grand adventure”

I know a man who is a morning person on steroids. He admits that as he wakes up his eyes open, he says “Good Morning” to the Lord, and then he pops out of bed like a piece of toast popping out of a toaster – eager to embrace the new day and to get going.

He immediately goes to his time with the Lord in prayer, Bible reading, and devotionals as he listens to what the Lord has to say to him as he begins his day. Then, he prayerfully writes out his schedule or “to-do list” for the day, asking the Holy Spirit to establish his priorities for him.

My friend is one of those people who approaches life with a sense of curiosity and wonder. To him the world is fascinating and people are interesting. He loves to explore, discuss, read, and learn. With that mindset, each day becomes a new adventure with untold possibilities, and that helps us to understand why he pops out of bed like a piece of toast. He’s eager to get at it and see what the Lord has waiting for him today.

Now, you may not be a morning person. And if you live with someone like my friend, you might sometimes think it’s grounds for justifiable homicide. Maybe you need a little more time to get your motor warmed up and running but still, there’s much to be admired about my friend’s approach to life. Each new day is an opportunity to explore new things, meet new people, and learn things you didn’t know the day before. The Christian life truly is an adventure and there is much about the world, about life, and about other people that God wants to show you.

Popping out of bed like a piece of toast might not be your thing, but approaching life with a sense of curiosity, wonder, and awe should be – along with a strong desire to learn and to grow. And if that is not the way you approach life, I encourage you to make it a matter of prayer and ask God to help you see life as the grand adventure it is. Each new day is a gift of life. I encourage you to embrace it, enjoy it, and get the most out of it.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Never stop learning

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Lifelong learning”

Our Bible verse for today: “I pursue the way of your commands, for you broaden my understanding.” Psalm 119:32 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Never stop learning”

As a child I was a terrible student in school and from an early age I came to believe I was stupid. Second grade was the hardest two years of my life. That’s right, “two” years. I failed the first time and had to repeat second grade. That meant that for the rest of my years in grade-school I was always a year older than the other kids and everyone always knew why. Worse still, from second-grade on, my brother (who was a year younger than me), was always in the same grade as I was and he was a good student while I continued to struggle.

Finally, I gave up. I quit high school partway through the 10^th grade and joined the Navy. Then, when I got to bootcamp around all those other guys from all those other places, I discovered that virtually everyone else was smarter than me – and I hated that. Fortunately, early in my time in the Navy, I had a division officer who took an interest in me and he encouraged me to enroll in the G.E.D. high school diploma classes that were being held onboard our ship. I did that and much to my surprise, I discovered that maybe I wasn’t as dumb as I had always believed. Maybe I could learn after all.

Long story short, I earned my high school diploma and once I discovered that I could learn, I developed a love for learning that has lasted the rest of my life. I went on to earn four college degrees, became an officer in the U.S. Navy, and then a Pastor. Lifelong learning has become a passion for me and it has become the central focus of my life as a preacher and teacher of the Word of God – because to be a teacher, you must first be a learner.

Looking back, I’m grateful that God used those painful early years in my life and brought something good out of it (Romans 8:28). My passion for learning in general became a passion for learning God’s Word and God’s ways in-particular and that ended up determining the path for the rest of my life.

God may not be preparing you for a life as a preacher, teacher, or writer, but He does want us all to be lifelong learners. Not necessarily in terms of earning college degrees, but lifelong learners when it comes to the Bible, and to the ways of God, and to life lessons that can be shared with others. Many passages in the Bible urge us to learn, and to never stop learning. No matter who we are and no matter how much we know, we should never stop learning.

All this month we will explore the many ways in which we can be lifelong learners. I look forward to learning along with you.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Free-range Christians

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Free-range Christians”

Are you familiar with the concept of “free-range chickens”? Free-range chickens are chickens that are not raised in a cage. Instead, they are allowed to roam free. The idea is that it is inhumane to keep a chicken in a cage its entire life and in fact, a free chicken is a better and tastier chicken.

How about “free-range kids,” have you heard about them? The actual name of this concept is “free-range parenting” and it results in “free-range kids.” The idea is essentially the same as with chickens, but with a little less freedom and a lot more care. In this case, the parents avoid the syndrome that is so common in our day of being a helicopter parent. Helicopter parents are constantly hovering over their children watching, guiding, directing, and intervening. Free-range parents encourage their kids to explore and to try new things – and while there are boundaries and safety precautions, for the most part the free-range parent just lets the free-range kid be a kid, without a lot of interference.

That is essentially what Proverbs 3:5-6 teaches. God is a free-range parent and He is raising us to be free-range Christians. He has given us boundaries to stay within, and although He does pay attention and He does intervene as needed, for the most part He just lets us be kids. He encourages us to explore, to try new things, and to not be afraid of failure.

Now, as we go through our days there will be plenty of times when we need to check-in with Him and consult Him. There are times in life when we do need guidance and we do need to hear from God. For those situations He has given us the five basic ways in which He communicates with us (the Bible, prayer, circumstances, counsel, and the church.) But most of life consists of regular old humdrum life-stuff. It is just choosing between the sandbox or the swing set (see yesterday’s devotional). So, most of the time we just need to know the rules, stay within the boundaries, and enjoy life as you trust God to guide you just enough to keep you in His will.

I don’t know about you, but I love being a free-range Christian. It’s so much better and so much more fun than marching in formation to the barked-out cadence of a God who is a lot like a Marine Corps drill sergeant.

As we conclude this month of devotionals about hearing from God, I urge you to remember that God wants to be heard and He wants to be understood by His children. Therefore, He does speak to us as necessary and we are able to hear Him – it just takes practice and you will get better at it over time. Learning to hear God is a learned skill and it is a lifelong learning process – and that is where we will pick this up tomorrow. Our theme for the new month with be “Lifelong Learning.”

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Just live your life

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Just live your life.”

This morning, I want us to continue our thinking from yesterday regarding the fact that we do not need God to be constantly directing us. I also want us to revisit the important truth contained in Proverbs 3:5-6, because it is such a rich passage and it is so important.

When it comes to God providing sufficient guidance so we know what we can and cannot do in any given situation, I’m going to use an illustration I’ve used many times before but which I keep referring to because it is so helpful to our understanding of how God directs and guides us. It comes from Dallas Willard in his important book “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God.”

Dallas tells the story of how, when his children were young, he would often send them to play in the backyard. The yard was fenced and the children had many options to choose from in terms of play and recreation. They could play in the sandbox, swing on the swing set, sit in the shade and read, kick a ball, play with the dog, or a wide variety of other options. As their father, all Dallas required was that they stay within the boundaries of that fenced-in backyard and that they didn’t misbehave. Beyond that, they were free to choose for themselves what activities they wanted to engage in. Dallas felt no need to direct them to any one activity in-particular. He wanted them to choose for themselves, but according to the rules and within the boundaries he had established for them.

God works in a similar fashion with us. In the Bible, He has given us the boundaries within which we are to live life. The boundaries are broad and there is a lot of freedom of choice available to us within those boundaries. As long as we remain within the Biblical boundaries and we don’t misbehave (sin), then we are free to choose for ourselves among the many choices God has made available to us.

Is it safe to live like that? Well, yes, it is if you know the Bible and if your heart is right. You have already been living like that for most of your Christian life whether you realized it or not and God hasn’t let you walk off the edge of a cliff yet. Proverbs 3:5-6 is true. Know the rules; live by them; and trust God to give you just enough guidance to keep you in the center of His will.

God doesn’t want to be a Marine Corps drill sergeant in your life. He doesn’t want to have to direct your every step. Instead, He wants you to be a mature Christian with good judgment who makes smart choices. We don’t necessarily need to be hearing from God all the time. He has already provided us with all the guidance we need in order to live according to His standards and within the appropriate boundaries. So, stay within those boundaries and then just go live your life.

But now you may be wondering how this squares with what we’ve been thinking about all month regarding the five ways God typically speaks to us (Bible, prayer, circumstances, council, and the church.) Do we need God to speak to us or not? We will think about that tomorrow in the final devotional in this series.

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)

God is not a helicopter parent

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “God is not a helicopter parent”

So far this month I have been drawing heavily on Henry Blackaby’s classic work, “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God.” But there’s another important study that’s also very helpful in learning to hear God speaking, and it is “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God” by Dallas Willard.

In that book Dallas taught a lesson about hearing from God that profoundly impacted my own understanding about this, and which led me to adopt Proverbs 3:5-6 (above) as one of my personal life verses. The lesson is that many times, perhaps most of the time, we don’t need to hear from God.

Does that surprise you? Sometimes we think we need to be hearing from God all the time; that we need step-by-step instructions, 24/7. In that case God would be like a Marine Corps drill sergeant barking out cadence for us to march to, “Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right” one step after another, marching along in perfect lock-step to His commands. But is that want God wants for us, His children? Wouldn’t that essentially turn us into a bunch of robotic automatons with our every thought, word, and deed dictated for us?

Instead, God created us with an intellect that enables us to think things through, and to use our judgment, and to make good choices. Our ability to do that is an essential part of our growth. But if He were to dictate it all for us, how would we ever grow? Think about this in terms of the relationship between a human parent and a child. Don’t we train our children to think for themselves? Don’t we want them to have good judgment and to make good choices on their own? As they grow older don’t we give them more and more freedom and encourage them to use their intellect?

Have you ever seen a helicopter parent who treats their 15-year-old as if he or she is still 5? The parent is always hovering in the shadows watching and waiting and then suddenly (frequently) they swoop in to intervene, or give instructions, or even to do the thing for the child. Such a child will be stunted in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth.

Well, God is not a helicopter parent. And He doesn’t want us to be stunted in our spiritual growth because He constantly intervenes in our decision-making process. Instead, we must learn to live our lives in the will of God, without Him calling cadence or providing a constant stream of instructions. The truth is that we don’t need God to dictate our every thought, word, and deed in order for us to live well and to please Him. This is important, so we will continue thinking about it 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)

A sign of confirmation

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “So the Lord Jesus, after speaking to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word by the accompanying signs.” Mark 16:19-20 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “A sign of confirmation”

So, here’s the end of the story about how we arrived at a group consensus on an important issue while avoiding the dynamic of groupthink. We went with the digital sign. After three-and-one-half years of seeking the Lord, praying, discussing, researching, praying some more, researching more, waiting on the Lord, and finally coming to a strong group consensus, we spent the money and purchased a digital sign.

And how did that work out for us? Well, trumpets sounded, angels rejoiced, there was a party in heaven, and the world beat a path to Oak Hill Baptist Church in Crossville, Tennessee.

Or not.

Actually, initially, nothing happened. Oh, most of us were happy with our new sign. It looks very nice. Our Youth Pastor, Josh, is having a lot of fun programing it and being creative with the graphics and images. The messages and pictures are colorful and eye-catching, and numerous people have mentioned it. But beyond that? Well … something interesting did happen.

Like most churches, during the pandemic our attendance dropped way off and we struggled just to hold our ground. Then (again like most churches), in the post-pandemic period we struggled to regain what we had lost. For more than a year we tried everything we could think of to recover, but for the most part, we were stuck in the mud – we just couldn’t seem to move forward and after more than a year of trying, we were still stuck at about 70% of our pre-pandemic attendance.

Oh, and our sign was falling down.

But then we purchased the new digital sign and … we started to grow – and we haven’t stopped yet. Today our average Sunday attendance is better than even before the pandemic.

Now let me be very clear, I am not saying the new digital sign is the reason for our growth. I don’t know of anyone who decided to join our church because they think we have a cool sign. I can show no direct cause-and-effect between the sign and the growth. All I can do is report the chronological chain of events that occurred at our church. Before we got the new sign, we were stuck in the mud and couldn’t seem to grow no matter what we did. Shortly after we got the new sign we started growing and we haven’t stopped yet.

Those are just the facts, ma’am.

Coincidence? Perhaps. But over almost thirty years in church leadership I’ve noticed a trend that when God’s people diligently seek His guidance about important issues, a lot of coincidences seem to happen. Assign to that any meaning you like, but as for me and my family, we will praise the Lord!

By the way, did I mention that we have a really cool digital sign? You should drive by and see it. Maybe on a Sunday morning, say around 10:00. And while you’re here, why not stay for the service?

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)

Laying the foundation for the church of tomorrow

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some. Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may share in the blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Laying the foundation for the church of tomorrow”

Let’s return now to our discussion from yesterday regarding how our congregation arrived at a difficult group consensus about an important issue without allowing the dynamic of groupthink to drive the outcome. As I noted yesterday, it took us three-and-one-half years to decide the issue of what kind of new sign we should purchase for the church. During that time God spoke to us about it in numerous ways.

First, the circumstances pertaining to the situation changed over time. The old sign continued to deteriorate to the point that we could no longer delay replacing it. Something had to be done. Second, during that time the financial position of the church improved significantly. It had always been strong (we weren’t in debt and we did have reserves), but it had improved to the point where we could easily write a check for the most expensive option (the digital sign) without it having a significant negative impact on our savings.

The third thing that happened is that in one of our meetings about the sign, we considered the importance of the lesson the Apostle Paul taught in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. In that passage Paul explained how he constantly adjusted his methods of ministry in order to be most effective with whatever group he was attempting to reach. Whether it was Jew or Gentile, old or young, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Paul adjusted his methods accordingly. The message never changed, but the methods of communicating that message had to change in order to effectively communicate with different groups of people.

That example in the Bible was God speaking to us about our sign. We needed to consider generational and cultural issues. The fact is that we live in a digital age now. Technology is a big deal and it is an effective means of communicating with young adults, teenagers, and children. Even if a digital sign doesn’t seem important to the older generation, it does matter to the younger ones, and one of the most important jobs of the older generation in any church is to help lay the foundation for the church of tomorrow. As decisions are made in a church, they have to be made with an eye towards the future. The entire two-thousand-year history of the Christian church is a textbook example of that. The Holy Spirit overcomes generational, cultural, language, and geographic boundaries as the message continues to spread. The message has never changed, but the methods of communicating it have continuously changed.

As we did our research and sought counsel on the issue, we discovered that multiple studies confirm the effectiveness of digital signs in communicating with the younger generations – which is why so many businesses, organizations, schools, and churches, have moved to digital signs.

All of that helped us to hear from God on the issue and to arrive at a group consensus based upon what we were hearing from Him. And how did that work out for us? I’ll have some final thoughts to share with you about that tomorrow. For now, as your group seeks to hear from God on an issue, I encourage you to take your time and do your homework,

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)

The Holy Spirit will unite us

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Hearing from God”

Our Bible verse for today: “Teach me your way, Lord, and I will live by your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.” Psalm 86:11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “The Holy Spirit will unify us”

At Oak Hill Baptist Church we needed a new church sign out by the road in front of the church. The old one had been there for decades. It was discolored, parts of it were broken, the lights only worked intermittently, and the brick frame was crumbling. We had tried several times to clean it up and repair it but it was too far gone. It had to be replaced.

We appointed a committee to do some research and they came up with several proposals. We could replace the existing sign with a simple static wooden sign. Or, we could get a new version of the existing sign that lights up and allows us to display a static message that could be manually changed. Or, if we were willing to spend the money, we could purchase a modern digital sign.

When the results were presented to the church in a business meeting, I was surprised at how little consensus there was. There were groups in support of each of the three options and some people had strong feelings about it. This was unusual in our church life. Usually, we quickly arrive at a consensus and seldom do people get firmly dug in regarding one option or another on any issue.

So, we agreed we would not move forward on the project until there was a strong majority consensus on one of the options. We also agreed that we would not attempt to pressure each other to change our minds (we wanted to avoid the groupthink dynamic). Instead, we would table the issue for a while, giving the Holy Spirit time to quietly work among us.

It ended up taking three and one-half years to resolve the issue. During that period, we discussed it three additional times but always in a spirit of peace and love, and each time, in an effort to avoid dissension, we chose to table the issue. We also did not want to go forward with an option that might achieve a majority but which still was opposed by a large segment of the congregation.

How we eventually arrived at a group consensus without allowing the dynamic of groupthink to drive the outcome is a story that will have to be completed tomorrow – there’s too much to tell in a single devotional message. But the point to note so far is that we didn’t rush it. We were patient and we were determined to do it right. It needed to be the Holy Spirit who unified our thoughts and brought us to consensus on the issue.

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)