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Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth in Speech & Action

Communication Series: Discussion & Highlights – Part 3

March 23, 2021 By Home Missions

Our final round of highlights and short excerpts for discussion from our extended series, Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth In Speech & Action. If you’ve missed much of the series, these highlights may spark your curiosity. If you’ve been following the series, these may solidify some thoughts or provide for some discussion with a […]

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Truth & Love: Communicating About Gender, Women, & The Church

March 9, 2021 By Home Missions

John Shaw is back on the podcast. John started this series with a podcast about the importance of communication. Then two weeks ago, he discussed the issue of race and the church. This week he returns with another timely issue – gender, women, and the church. This is certainly a topic of conversation both outside […]

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Sunday Tour Guide Needed

March 2, 2021 By Home Missions

This week is a fairly lengthy post, but we wanted to give it to you as a whole because it has a flow to it and creates one big picture. We expect that as people read though it, some will be drawn to one section more than another. Not everybody will implement every idea. That’s […]

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Truth & Love: Communicating About Race & The Church

February 23, 2021 By Home Missions

John Shaw is back on the podcast. John started this series with a podcast about the importance of communication. Today he’s here to talk about a sometimes difficult or “hot button” topic about how communication relates to the issue of race and the church. It seems like a topic that everyone is talking about–in both […]

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On Being Normal (& Reformed)

February 16, 2021 By Home Missions

This week we asked OPC Pastor Paul Viggiano to discuss the idea of being both Reformed and normal. Perhaps that seems odd to you, or perhaps you know it’s a much needed topic for us especially in regard to communicating in love and truth to those we seek to reach. On the one hand, we […]

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Truth & Love: Communication That Connects

February 9, 2021 By Home Missions

If you missed earlier posts in this series, “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth In Speech & Action,” you can find them here: Truth & Love Series. Today’s post is from Jeremiah Montgomery, one of the pastors at Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Vandalia, OH. He is previously a foreign missionary in the OPC, and […]

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SoCal Pastors Part 3 – On Preaching

February 2, 2021 By Home Missions

Our first two episodes of this podcast were quite popular. We have one final installment with SoCal OPC Pastors Chris Hartshorn, Jesse Pirschel, and Jonathan Moersch. These 3 have a lot in common and all have backgrounds that are uncommon for OPC pastors that shed light on their approach to reaching the lost and unchurched. […]

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Communication Series: Discussion & Highlights – Part 2

January 26, 2021 By Home Missions

We are about two-thirds of the way through our series “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth in Speech & Action.” Aware there is too much great stuff to read in our world and too little time, we continue to jump into these longer series for some highlights and discussion. Several churches have told us that […]

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What I Learned From Big Evangelicalism About Reaching People

December 15, 2020 By Home Missions

Following up on the 2-part podcast we did with 3 OPC pastors, we asked Jesse Pirschel to write an article about what he learned during his time in Calvary Chapel that still influences his ministry, especially to the lost, even if he’s had to nuance and tweak those helpful things once he came to a […]

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SoCal Pastors Part 2 – Outward Focus

December 8, 2020 By Home Missions

Part 2 of our podcast with SoCal OPC Pastors Chris Hartshorn, Jesse Pirschel, and Jonathan Moersch. These 3 have a lot in common and all have backgrounds that are uncommon for OPC pastors that shed light on their approach to reaching the lost and unchurched. This is a continuation of a great conversation that started […]

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SoCal Pastors Part 1 – Evangelistic Culture

December 1, 2020 By Home Missions

We have an interesting podcast for you this week and next. We were able to talk to 3 OPC pastors who have a lot in common. The fact that they are OPC pastors in Southern California (SoCal) is only the start. You will find this podcast quite illuminating. We welcome Chris Hartshorn, Jesse Pirschel, and […]

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Communication Series: Loving Their Story Part 2

November 17, 2020 By Home Missions

This article is a continuation from last week. You are free to read this post as a stand alone, but it will make more sense in the context of last week’s part 1, which you can read here: Loving Their Story – Part 1 Part 1 also includes a preface from John Shaw that we […]

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Communication Series: Loving Their Story Part 1

November 10, 2020 By Home Missions

Preface To This Week’s Article By John Shaw: Every person is drawn to a good story. Does that statement sound too bold? Too certain? Absolute statements are often too simple, that we can all agree on. (See what I did there. Another absolute.) Yet I think, if we pay attention, we see that story telling […]

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Dig Deeper: Motivation & Imagery of Our Communication

October 13, 2020 By Home Missions

We opened this series on “Communication in Truth & Love” with a podcast with John Shaw. This week, we provide a short excerpt from that interview that wasn’t in the previous podcast episode. We had a follow up, or kind of dig deeper moment, where John talked about the biblical imagery that shapes our communication. […]

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The Only Christian In The Room

October 6, 2020 By Home Missions

If you missed earlier posts in this series, “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth In Speech & Action,” you can find them here: “Truth & Love Communication Series”. For today’s post we asked Brad Peppo to write on an intriguing topic: What do you do if you are the only Christian in the room? Brad […]

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Communication Series: Discussion & Highlights #1

September 29, 2020 By Home Missions

We are about 5 weeks into our series “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth in Speech & Action.” We know there is a lot of great stuff to read and not enough time. When we’ve done these longer series, we have found it helpful to jump in at various points and create a post that […]

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Truth & Love: Do You Want to Love Your Neighbor?

September 23, 2020 By Home Missions

If you have missed earlier posts in this series, “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth In Speech & Action,” you can find them here: (Series Posts). Today’s post is from Jeremiah Montgomery, one of the pastors at Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Vandalia, OH. He is previously a foreign missionary in the OPC and former […]

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Truth & Love: Practicing Hospitality As A Gospel Welcome (Al Tricarico)

September 15, 2020 By Home Missions

Last week Al Tricarico discussed the importance and call of hospitality as a display of God’s welcome to us (Link: Part 1). This week Al continues with some practical thoughts about how to build a pattern of hospitality….Here’s Al: Know your neighbors Love of neighbor needs to be qualified. At least that is what the […]

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Truth & Love: Hospitality Communicates Gospel Truth (Al Tricarico)

September 9, 2020 By Home Missions

This series, “Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth in Speech & Action,” began last week with a podcast with John Shaw (Find that here: “Podcast- Shaw”). This week, Al Tricarico digs into the call of hospitality as a gospel welcome. As many will know, Al is the Associate General Secretary for Home Missions and former […]

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Truth & Love: Communicating Gospel Truth in Speech & Action (John Shaw)

September 1, 2020 By Home Missions

Our first installment in this new series is a podcast with John Shaw. As many will know, John is the General Secretary of the Committee on Home Missions and Church Extension in the OPC. Note: If you already listen to podcasts, just search for “Outward OPC” in your podcast app for this and other episodes. […]

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