Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. - Psalm 107:1. The first thing I want to say in this article is I am very thankful. First of all I am very thankful to our Lord Jesus Christ for allowing me the privilege and honor to serve him and his church as a pastor and staff member at Omaha Bible Church for the past 16 years and 9 mon...

The OBC Elders met at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 and the meeting was opened by Vice-Chairman Todd Swift in prayer for the ministry of our church and people in need both physicallyand spiritually. Elder Dallas Focht led us in a reading and discussion of Article 3 of the London Baptist Confession of 1689 on the topic "Of God's Eternal Decree." Treasurer Dave Guthri...

I recently went to lunch with a young man who asked me, "How do I live the Christian life?"That is a great question. It's a question I've been spending a lot of time on recently as I just finished teaching a class on that very topic. The topic of the class was sanctification. Sanctification is a theological word for the time in a believer's life between coming to faith in...

As people living in this world created by God we are called to believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and we are also called to obey the law of God, that is to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself.(Mark 12:30-31) Both the law and the gospel are good, yet the key to understanding how we grow in Christ is to see the law and the gospel in proper relationship to one ...

The elders met on the morning of Wednesday, November 13 at Omaha Bible Church. Our time was opened with prayer by Senior Pastor Pat Abendroth who asked for God's wisdom in caring for and loving the people of our church; particularly for those who are suffering. We spent a considerable amount of time discussing pastoral care issues to begin our meeting and then moved on to ...

The elders met on the morning of Wednesday, March 20 at Omaha Bible Church and Senior Pastor Pat Abendroth opened the meeting with prayer for thoughtful wisdom for us as we seek to provide godly leadership to our local church. Dan Perina led us through the considerationof chapter 21 of the London Baptist Confession of 1689 on the subject of Christian Liberty and Liberty o...

This is a really good little book that I come back to over and over again to turn my heart to the Lord when anxiety, worry, and fear creep into my thinking and emotions. It is a small book - it will almost fit in your hand, but inside you will find 50 daily devotions that use Scripture and wisdom to not only give you the do's and don'ts of the biblical passages on worry, b...

"Do not be anxious" sounds like a pretty bold and demanding statement doesn't it? It sounds like perhaps it was uttered by someone who doesn't really understand the difficulties of the life we lead in this broken world. Seems like a simple answer to the problems of the complex human heart. Maybe these words were spoken by someone who just doesn't understand the culture we ...

Feeling stressed these days? Being the modern biblically-informed people that we are, we sometimes substitute the word stress for biblical words, such as fear and worry. But if we are honest, fear and worry, and yes, anxiety, impacts all of us sooner or later and to one degree or another, because there is good reason to worry in this broken world where sin invades the p...

Israel's King David knew good times and bad. David really knew what it was like to live as royalty in the palace enjoying all the trapping of wealth and riches and the temptations that go along with it. In fact, as the Scripture records, he succumbed to some of those temptations. David also knew what it is like to be running for his life, hiding in caves, living with hung...