The OOC

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 6:1-18)

(AUDIO NOTE: The quality of this recording is very poor. It is all my fault; I had the internal mic on the computer turned on instead of the input jack. I apologize for the inconvenience. –Nate)

Pastor Mark Tucker speaks on how we should deal with the instruction Jesus gives to only use our Christian disciplines in private — do we have to choose between being hermits or hypocrites?

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:43-48)

In the ongoing sermon Series on Matthew, Stephen Leung urges us to go “deeper and wider” love for those who would oppose us.

Sunday sermon: John 17:20-26

Guest preacher Solomon Kendagor, Director of the St. Louis division of International Students, Inc., preaches on how to reach others through love, using the example of Christ’s prayer for all believers.

On Old Orchard Church’s 25th anniversary service, Ron Lutjens preaches on how “getting the green light” is not necessarily the way God wants our lives to go, and how a beautiful newly renovated church building like our own can quickly become ugly when what goes on inside it is not dedicated to our Lord.

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:38-42)

Sermon Series on Matthew
Ron Lutjens, senior pastor, preaching.

When Jesus told us to “turn the other cheek” was he wanting to encourage milquetoast Chritianity, in which we just get walked over all the time? No, he was promoting a  plan of counter attack that met evil with good, and in so doing made evil cave in on itself.

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:33-37)

We live in a society that counts on the power of the oath to hold us to our word. Who hasn’t made a promise, “cross my heart and hope to die?” In the sermon series on the Gospel According to Matthew, Ron Lutjens explores Jesus’ injunction against taking up meaningless oaths. He shows us that instead of needing to be held to what we say we are going to do by the formality of an oath, kingdom Christians should be of the character to keep their word, for God’s sake.

Ron Lutjens gets up close and personal with the youth of Old Orchard as he presents his annual “back to school” sermon. This year, he challenges the students to consider what their teachers really want to accomplish, what value there is in learning, and whether they are there simply to take notes or to evaluate and internalize what is being taught.

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:31-32; 19:1-12)

Ron Lutjens continues his look at Jesus teaching on marriage, divorce, and remarriage from the Sermon on the Mount.

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:27-30)

If it is true that Christians are those who desire Jesus, then any time we desire anything over him, we are sinning. Mark Tucker expounds Jesus’ teaching against adultery in the continuing series on the Sermon on the Mount.

Sunday Sermon (Matthew 5:31-2; 19:1-12)

Pastor Ron Lutjens, Senior Pastor, Old Orchard Church

What are kingdom Christians to make of Jesus hard teaching on divorce, especially given the ease with which marriages are tossed aside in our culture? Pastor Ron encourages viewing marriage from the perspective of eternity and the perfection that awaits us. This perspective helps us to endure the inevitable pain that comes in devoting oneself to another in the here and now.