Earlier this summer, we interviewed John Shaw when it became official that he was ending his time as General Secretary of Home Missions. We took some time to look back at 10 years of what God has done through Home Missions. In this first installment, we discuss two points of emphasis that John brought to […]
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A “Get Real” Thought: Raise Curiosity. Get Outside the Box
With Labor Day over and the school year starting, the new rhythms of the year begin again. Outward has a couple of things on the schedule for you this fall. We have a new series turning lessons from a good book on evangelism into shorter, digestible reads. Starting next week we have an interesting podcast […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Conclusion & Encouragement
In our first post of this series, we asked you to take a few moments to answer one question: What is the Gospel? Did you do it? We are closing the series by asking you to answer one question: What is the Gospel? Write it down–1 paragraph or 1 minute to answer the question. What […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 9 – Christianity Explored
As we wind down this summer series, we share 2 short videos from “Christianity Explored” a popular series created by Reformed folks in England. Several OPC churches have used Christianity Explored as a means of group outreach by the church. We want to give you a taste of the materials. If you are interested in […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 8 – Two Ways To Live
We have a few installments left in our “Gospel Saturated Summer” series. This week is a video of the popular, reformed gospel presentation called “Two Ways To Live.” Many reformed pastors and a number of OPC pastors like and recommend this presentation tool. One thing that stands out is the biblical theology of taking the […]
More On Evangelistic Life in the Mid-Atlantic With Charles Biggs
Part 2 of our interview with Charles Biggs, RHM of the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic. We talk about being evangelistic when you’re not a natural, cultivating groups and a mindset for church planting, and we hear about the several church plants in the Mid-Atlantic and their evangelistic efforts. You can listen to the podcast here, […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 7 – Your Testimony & The Gospel (Sproul)
Continuing our summer series sharing a variety of videos all focused on the gospel. Take note from week to week of what is similar in the videos and what is different. Think about how to incorporate the best of what you hear into your own heart and mind. As always, we share these videos as […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 6 – Horton
Here’s our next post in “Gospel Saturated Summer.” Take note from week to week of what is similar in the videos and what is different. Think about how to incorporate the best of what you hear into your own heart and mind. As always, we share these videos as tools to help us, but we […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 5 – From The Pulpit (Baucham)
Continuing our summer series sharing a variety of videos all focused on the gospel. Take note from week to week of what is similar in the videos and what is different. Think about how to incorporate the best of what you hear into your own heart and mind. As always, we share these videos as […]
Evangelistic Life in the Mid-Atlantic With Charles Biggs
We interviewed Charles Biggs, RHM of the Presbytery of the Mid-Atlantic. In this first part, we discuss creating an intentional habit of evangelism and the spiritual dynamic of being an RHM. Also, Charles shares the story of “Team Biggs RHM” and how his whole family shares in his ministry. You can listen to the podcast […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 4 -Personal Approach (Begg)
Continuing our summer series sharing a variety of videos all focused on the gospel. Take note from week to week of what is similar in the videos and what is different. Think about how to incorporate the best of what you hear into your own heart and mind. As always, we share these videos as […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 3 – Spoken Word
Continuing our summer series sharing a variety of videos all focused on the gospel. You may be tempted to watch one or two and say, “yeah, that was great, got it.” Resist that temptation. Take note from week to week of what is similar in the videos and what is different. Think about how to […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 2: Deep Theology – Tipton
Our summer series is a shift in format to short videos which are focused on helping us be “gospel-saturated” people. We want you to be immersed in the actual gospel as an encouragement to your desire and efforts to evangelize. There will be variety in the videos, but they will all be focused on the […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Part 1 – Sproul & Ferguson
As we head into summer, we want to change things up a little bit. Traveling, vacations, and time outside late in the evening don’t lend to longer Outward posts to read. So, we are going to be sharing some short videos over the summer that are gospel-saturated. In fact, let’s just call it the “Gospel […]
Gospel Saturated Summer: Introduction
We are going to start a new series called “Gospel Saturated Summer” which we will explain in the next post of the series. But for today we have one straight-forward question for you to answer: What is the Gospel? If you had one paragraph or one minute what would your answer be? Not a rough […]
Hidden Gems – Part 8
Here is our next “hidden gem.” One of earliest posts and starting our “Stories From the Field” category was from Sterling, VA and Pastor Phil Proctor. The simplicity and authenticity that comes through on this post got some peoples’ attention, but maybe not enough people, so here it is in the hidden gems redo. Stories […]
More From DC Metro Mother-Daughter Church Planting
This is part 2 with Pastors Phil Proctor and John Paul Holloway who lead mother-daughter church plants in the DC Metro area. Phil in Sterling, VA and John Paul in Manassas. This episode digs into some interesting dynamics of mother-daughter church planting–the blessings and challenges to both. How does the mother church ‘re-energize’ itself after […]
Hidden Gems – Part 7
Here is our next “Hidden Gem”–our series highlighting interesting posts over the last 5 years that maybe didn’t get the attention they deserved. In early 2020, we talked with Brad Peppo an OPC church planter in Dayton, OH. Among the many topics was this one about how to open doors for discussion with people, how to […]
Hidden Gems – Part 6
Here is another “Hidden Gem” — our series highlighting interesting posts over the last 5 years that maybe didn’t get the views deserved. About 4 years ago, we stumbled across this video on Facebook from Paul Viggiano (Branch of Hope, Torrance, CA). It’s not even 3 minutes long but it says a lot…a lot about […]
Intentional Church Planting in The DC Metro Area
We interviewed Pastors Phil Proctor of Sterling Presbyterian Church (OPC) & John Paul Holloway of Acacia Reformed Church (OPC) in Manassas, VA. This is a recent mother-daughter OPC church plant. From day 1, Sterling OPC wanted to be a church-planting church. They were intentional about that mission and about creating an environment for a church […]