Sunday School for the Second Quarter This Spring we will be offering two adult Sunday school classes that touch on core theological topics. Our philosophy of Adult Ed at River Oaks is to provide a balanced “diet” of classes that cover Bible, theology, and contemporary issues (like our recent class Read more…
Sunday School for the First Quarter To begin the new year, we will be offering two adult Sunday school classes that touch on topics of interest in the Christian life. Our philosophy of Adult Ed at River Oaks is to provide a balanced “diet” of classes that cover Bible (like Read more…
Parenting Toddlers & the Gospel of Luke! For October and November, we are offering two adult Sunday school classes. Both will take place during the Sunday school time (10:15-10:45am), so you can take your pick. Find out the details below! Toddler Talks with Dr. Kim Bougoulias Dr. Kim Bougoulias has Read more…
Two classes to choose from! For August and September, we are offering two adult Sunday school classes. Both will take place during the Sunday school time (10:15-10:45am), so you can take your pick. Find out the details below! Foundations of the Faith: Apostles’ Creed At ROC we recite the Apostles’ Read more…
Two classes to choose from! For June, July, and August, we are excited to offer (for the first time using our new building space) two adult Sunday school classes! Both will take place during the Sunday school time (10:15-10:45am), so you can take your pick. Find out the details below! Read more…
GPT, deepfakes, and more… Books and movies have long hypothesized about dystopian future scenarios where robots take over. But only in recent months has Artificial Intelligence actually become a real thing that is all around us, seemingly overnight. From ChatGPT to Dall-E to deepfakes … and from Microsoft to OpenAI Read more…
How well do you know the life of Jesus? While many Christians within the Reformed/Protestant world know a lot about the writings of Paul (like Romans), surprisingly the Gospels are often somewhat unfamiliar other than, say, popular parables or the Sermon on the Mount. But the Gospels are essential to Read more…
How Christmas Fulfills Ancient Hopes The hope for a deliverer begins way back in the history of ancient Israel and continued for centuries until the great moment when Jesus arrived. Sometimes we think that first-century Jews all had the same “job description” for a Messiah-figure, but that’s not really the Read more…
A different take on church history Every Christian matters to God, but he has also used specific men and women in particularly important ways to advance his church from the very beginning. We rightly look up to and learn from this great cloud of witnesses. But no mere human is Read more…
A Study of Gentle & Lowly Coming out of the Advent/Christmas season, our hearts are freshly aware of the humanity of Jesus: God enfleshed in a baby born in Bethlehem. But even then, so often it is easy to see Jesus Christ as distant from us. Does he really love Read more…
We are Family! With the rise of vaccinations, the lightening of mask mandates throughout the country, and the general sense that things are trending towards “normal” around here–it feels more and more like we’re getting the church family back together again. It feels like a family reunion. So let’s do Read more…
Being the Adults in the Room It goes without saying, perhaps, that 2020 and the start of 2021 have left many of us disoriented and discouraged, for a host of reasons. A big one that touches every area of life is the sharpening division in not only the culture but Read more…
New Sunday School Series Paul writes, “Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction” (Rom 15:4). Contrary to some modern efforts to unhitch the church from the Old Testament, Paul says quite the opposite: the OT was for us. It’s hard to make it very far in Read more…
The Doctrine of Salvation Join our Pastoral Intern, Zach McIntosh, for a 8-part online study of the Ordo Salutis. Wait…what does that fancy term mean? It’s simply the Latin for “order of salvation,” and it captures how Scripture teaches the components of personal salvation. It runs from God’s sovereign election Read more…
Reading the Minor Prophets Afresh Micah is not a book of the Bible that many people spend a lot of time reading. In fact…you may be wondering, “Is that even in the Bible?” It is sandwiched between Jonah (which most everyone knows something about) and Nahum (even less famous than Read more…
Winter Sunday School Series “I want to talk about Jesus with my non-Christian coworker, but I don’t feel like I know the answers to all their questions.” Many of us have expressed a sentiment like this. Life is complicated. Ideas, philosophies, religions, arguments, counterarguments, hot-takes, and viral memes that go Read more…
Fall Sunday School Series We were created for fellowship with the living God. The Bible teaches that we have confidence to enter into the presence of God through Christ (2 Cor 3:4). We are called to meditate on his word (Psalm 119). To pray to the Father by the Spirit Read more…
Summer Sunday School Series “The frozen chosen.” That’s about all many people think about Presbyterians, if they know anything about them at all. Maybe that’s what you believed once, too! River Oaks is part of the Presbyterian tradition within the global church. But what does that really mean? While we Read more…