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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Hidden Gems – Part 4
Let’s pick up one of our “Hidden Gems.” After 5 years and 250 posts, we have detected several that had a distinct influence on people but maybe didn’t get the attention or circulation warranted. So we are sharing those on occasion over the next few months. Here, John Shaw (General Secretary For Home Missions) had […]
Hidden Gems – Part 1
Outward OPC will soon be 5 years old and we have published almost 250 articles, videos, and podcasts. Because we have a committed audience, we are able to get a good idea of what posts hit a particular chord with people. We can see the analytics (reads, shares, social media posts, etc) but we also […]
Getting Down To Business (Evangelism Conf.): Chris Hartshorn – Part 3
Former OPC church planter and recently installed Regional Home Missionary for Southern CA, Chris Hartshorn leads a conference on evangelism for the churches of SoCal. If you don’t know Chris, please take our word that this will be worth your time. Watch on your own, as a family, or as a church. For each of […]
We Can & We Will (Evangelism Conf.): Chris Hartshorn – Part 2
Former OPC church planter and recently installed Regional Home Missionary for Southern CA, Chris Hartshorn leads a conference on evangelism for the churches of SoCal. If you don’t know Chris, please take our word that this will be worth your time. Watch on your own, or together as a family, or as a church. For […]
Evangelism Focus Month: Are You On Board?
“Brothers and sisters we need to win sinners into our churches, right off the street, right out of our communities. People who have never set foot in a church need to come directly into our churches. We’re going to have to reach people out there because they’re not coming in here. Have you come to […]
We Should, But We Don’t (Evangelism Conf.): Chris Hartshorn – Part 1
Former OPC church planter and recently installed Regional Home Missionary for Southern CA, Chris Hartshorn leads a conference on evangelism for the churches of SoCal. If you don’t know Chris, please take our word for it, that this will be worth your time. Watch on your own, or together as a family, or as a […]
Mother/Daughter Church Planting in Ohio
Here is a helpful video with RHM Mike Diercks interviewing Matthew Patton, one of the pastors at Covenant in Vandalia, OH. They are talking about church planting in general, but also the specifics of mother-daughter church plants that they have done in Ohio. Below the video, we have supplied a few questions for thought or […]
Open My Lips – The Final Word With Eric Hausler
Our final post in this series is a short bonus. In a Q&A, Eric was asked how to go from making all these connections with people (about everyday life) to getting to the gospel. Eric gave a thoughtful and helpful answer in just a couple minutes. Again, thanks to the Presbytery of Ohio for holding […]