This week’s Outward Preaching clip gives a memorable, vivid picture of untying Jesus sandals. When you watch, imagine how well unbelievers and unchurched would get the point. It’s video #15, here: Outward Preaching
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Outward Preaching (Video #14) – The Temple & Outsiders
This week’s Outward OPC clip opens up God’s heart for outsiders in a text that is often difficult to understand–certainly for outsiders. How can Jesus get so angry???? It’s video #14, here: “Outward Preaching”
A Gospel Intentional Summer: Workshop – Part 4: Gospel Beauty & Fluency
Here is our last video clip from Jeremiah. As we close our series Jeremiah helps us to show the beauty of the gospel and how to communicate the ongoing work of God in our testimony. (Note: There are a few glitches where the video freezes for a second and the audio continues. That is in […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer: Workshop – Part 3: Accessible Communication
We continue our workshop of encouragement and direction in being more intentional in our connections, relationships, and evangelism. Here Jeremiah digs into how to avoid insider language without losing the richness of meaning–how to communicate the glory of the gospel in a way outsiders can relate. (Note: There are a few glitches in the video […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer: Workshop – Part 2: Conversations
Here is our next clip from Jeremiah Montgomery’s conference in VA Beach at Reformation OPC. This is about starting conversations, connecting to people, and moving conversations toward gospel topics….and being thoughtful and normal while doing it. (Note: There are a few glitches in the video where the video freezes for a second and the audio […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer: Workshop – Part 1: Evangelism Is A Way Of Life
Recently Jeremiah Montgomery, General Secretary of Home Missions, taught at a conference on evangelism in VA Beach at Reformation OPC. They recorded the conference and kindly allowed us to create some clips. Jeremiah hit several notes that complement this Gospel Intentional Summer series and give some good instruction. Today, we share the first of a […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer: A Realistic Example
As we return to our ‘Gospel Intentional Summer’ we have several short videos to encourage, inspire, and direct you in becoming better at these things. The first 3 posts in this series (posted in June) encapsulate the straightforward plan. These next few posts are like returning to the safe confines and getting more training and […]
Two Decades of OPC Church Planting in the Southeast – More With Lacy
This is part 2 of our interview with Lacy Andrews, Regional Home Missionary for the Presbytery of the Southeast for the last two decades. In this episode, we talk about the gifts & graces needed in a church planter and the importance of preaching in a church plant. We also talk with Lacy about his […]
Stories From The Field: Proclaiming Christ on Campus
Proclaiming Christ on Campus by Carl Miller, pastor of Heritage Presbyterian Church in New Braunfels, TX. On January 23, 2024, men from all over the OPC converged in Gainesville, Florida for the in-person intensive portion of the Winter Session of the OPC Ministerial Training Institute. Of the several courses offered, I was privileged to take […]
Tell Us About Your Gospel Intentional Summer
We’d love to hear from you. Have you been encouraged to try anything this summer to be more intentional with your neighbors or friends? It doesn’t have to be anything big. It doesn’t have to be a success. It doesn’t even have to have happened yet. Have you prayed differently? Have you talked to some […]
20+ Years As A RHM Seeing God Build The Church
Our next podcast is with Lacy Andrews, Regional Home Missionary for the Presbytery of the Southeast for the last two decades. That’s a long time to be in one place overseeing church planting and it provides a long window into what God is doing in the OPC there. In this first episode, Lacy shares remarkable […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer – Do It Together
“The evangelism that the church is to practice should resemble the way Polynesians catch fish. We must do it together, and we do it by inviting our nonbelieving friends to the party. We let the grace that we have been lavishing on one another spill out onto the nonbelievers among us. There is nothing wrong […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer – Act
“Our post-Christian neighbors need to hear and see and taste and feel authentic Christianity, hospitality spreading from every Christian home that includes neighbors in prayer, food, friendship, childcare, dog walking, and all the daily matters upon which friendships are built.” “My prayer is that this book will help you let God use your home, apartment, […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer – Pray
“…I pray about lost dogs…” Rosaria Butterfield (context: involvement in her neighborhood) Last week, we talked about THINKING more intentionally about how summer provides opportunities to build relationships with your neighbors. This week, let’s build on that. Intentional Item #2: Pray Intentionally About The Summer & Gospel Opportunities Recall all of those natural activities […]
A Gospel Intentional Summer – Think
“Invest in your neighbors for the long haul, the hundreds of conversations that make up a neighborhood, and stop thinking of conversations with neighbors as sneaky evangelistic raids into their sinful lives.” ~Rosaria Butterfield Summer is a time when we inherently recognize a shift in daily life: The days are longer and people are […]
Outward Curriculum Added Resources: How To Welcome People & Gospel Videos
This week, we’ve added 2 more resources to the Outward Curriculum page. One is a pair of written posts that help people think through being welcoming in a way that resonates with the outsider. The other is a series of videos about the gospel and presenting it to people. Check out these new resources (scroll […]
Outward Curriculum Added Resource: Evangelism Conference by OPC RHM
This week we’ve added a new resource to the Outward Curriculum page. Chris Hartshorn did a well-received Evangelism Conference for the Presbytery of Southern California which we shared previously. These 3, 45-minute videos serve well as a resource that could be used in a group setting for a church or Bible Study. Check out this […]
Outward Preaching (Video #13) – ‘The Modern Catechism’
This week’s Outward Preaching clip lays out the modern catechism of identity, belonging, and believing that outsiders would immediately “get.” Then it sets out the relief of the gospel. It’s video #13, here: Outward Preaching
Reaching Outsiders in Dayton – Tyler Detrick Part 2
Here’s part 2 with Tyler Detrick in Dayton, Ohio–Pastor of Light of the Nations OPC church. We talk about how ministering to outsiders teaches us to be better communicators of gospel truth and be more welcoming to those entering the world of the church for the first time. We also talk about ministry in an […]
Stories From The Field: Doorstep Visits With Mark Sumpter
We recently received a brief update from Mark Sumpter about one of his “doorstep outreach” efforts in Wichita Falls, TX where there is a young church plant. Mark has routinely included this kind of outreach effort in his ministry and now as RHM in the Southwest, he employs it in multiple locations to help the […]


















