NW OKC LifeGroups and Missions News

Toxic – Week 1

Pastor Craig starts a brand new sermon series this weekend entitled Toxic. In this series, we are going to examine things in our life that can be toxic to our relationship with Christ. In fact, the word toxic can be defined as “anything containing poisonous material capable of causing sickness or even death.” For week one of Toxic, Pastor Craig is going to look at “Toxic Thoughts”. All of us have dealt with toxic thoughts in our lives. Toxic thoughts can be negative, fearful, thoughts of discontentment or critical. While toxic thoughts can negatively impact our lives, Pastor Craig is going to ...

The Importance of Virtues

The Forgotten Virtues message series that Pastor Craig recently concluded was one of the best series of the year thus far. I think we were all greatly impacted in learning about the importance of why the virtues of honor, purity, loyalty, integrity and gratitude should be an integral part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, these virtues seem to be less evident in today’s world and it is important that we as a church stand together and bring these Biblical virtues back to the forefront of society. As LifeGroup leaders, it is even more important that strive to ensure that we exhibiting ...

The Christian Atheist Discussion Guide

So many of you have commented about how much you are currently enjoying Pastor Craig’s new book entitled The Christian Atheist and have expressed a desire to study this book with your LifeGroup. Our friends at the Oklahoma City campus have written a wonderful small group discussion guide for The Christian Atheist that you can use to lead your LifeGroup through the book. This discussion guide contains lessons for each of the book’s 12 chapters with scriptures and questions. If you are interested in using this discussion guide, simply click here to download the PDF document. Even though the book is ...

Sharefest 2010 Photos

Last Saturday the Northwest campus truly became the hands and feet of Christ as we partnered with Cherokee Baptist Church for the Tulakes/Lyrewood Sharefest in serving the Lyrewood apartment communities. God was truly at work as our MicroMission teams brought joy into the lives of many who were in need. I want to share with you some photos from Sharefest that were kindly provided by Cheryl Singleton and Sunny Hanna. I have posted a few of the photos below. You can view all of the photos in the photo gallery that is located on the front page of this blog at ...