Hello! Welcome to Open Circle, a podcast created to enrich your walk with Christ. Produced from Circle Church of Christ in Corvallis,
Oregon, this podcast is a mix of our weekly sermons as well as other topics, interviews, studies, and Biblical topics for Christians to come closer to God.
Jesus is born, and this text shows the reactions of three different people – Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, Herod, and earthly king, and the wise men, who come to worship Jesus. How did their expectations affect how they saw and understood Jesus’ birth? How do ours affect when and how we see King Jesus today?
As we kick off our year-long look at Matthew, we begin with the genealogy. While many people today find these sections of Scripture boring and meaningless to us, even just the genealogy tell us much about Jesus, including answering the question already that Matthew will spend his entire book answering – what kind of king
As we close out 2020, we take a unique look at the year from Psalm 1 which also contains a challenge for us moving forward. Hope, peace, and joy sound good, but what happens with those things come in conflict with what happens in ‘real’ life? How can we really attain those things in our
Today, with Christmas being a few days away, we come from hope and peace to joy: what is it, how to attain it, and why it matters, as well as particularly how it’s fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Continuing our short series on the themes of Advent, today we look at peace. Our expectations help define what peace we’re looking for and what that peace is. Paul in Philippians 4 tells us the nature of peace, the disciplines of peace, and the secret of peace, and why all of these are integral in
