Pastors

There are nearly 1,800 churches in our Oklahoma Baptist family, and our churches have been given pastors to feed, to protect and to lead.

Priority of Preaching Conference

Join us on February 3, 2025 from 10am to 5pm at OKC, Quail Springs for the annual Priority of Preaching Conference.

 

Speakers

Tony Merida & Scott Pace

Cost: $40.00

 

Upcoming Events

Moving Forward Interim Training

Date: January 13, 2025
Location: Shawnee, Immanuel
Address: 1451 E 45th St, Shawnee, OK 74804

2022 Pastor’s Conference

Relations

Ever Borunda

Ever Borunda

Emerson Falls

Emerson Falls

Griff Henderson

Griff Henderson

Buddy Hunt

Buddy Hunt

Philip Jones

Philip Jones

Amy Petersen

Amy Petersen

Brett Selby

Brett Selby

Walter Wilson

Walter Wilson

Andy Taylor

Andy Taylor

Pastor Resources

Multivocational Pastors & Small Attendance Churches

Our mission is to strengthen multi-vocational pastors and the churches they lead.

Native American Relations

Our Native American Ministries focus on developing indigenous leadership, creating contagious communities of faith, and affecting revitalization in plateaued and declining churches.

Hispanic Relations

Oklahoma Baptists Hispanic Ministries exists to support the local church in fulfilling the Great Commission. Our goal is to serve as a means of cooperation between the churches of Oklahoma, the nation, and the world.

Preaching: God’s Time & My Time

What is more precious than gold but cannot be bought, earned, or saved? Of course, the answer is time. With each passing day over the duration of our lives, it becomes more valuable to us. The old expression "time is money" is not completely accurate. Time is actually...

Learning to Preach – Putting the Pieces Together – CONTEXT part 2

One of the most crucial ways in which we acknowledge the importance of CONTEXT in exposition is by dealing with the biblical storyline. Specifically, when dealing with any New Testament text, we simply must consider how the writer is utilizing the Old Testament....

Learning to Preach: Putting the Pieces Together – CONTEXT

Preaching is letting texts talk, according to an expositional luminary such as J.I. Packer. Of course, he's spot on: if the preacher is talking rather than the text, that's not biblical preaching. However, every text has a context. Without it, goes the old saying, all...

Learning to Preach — Putting the Pieces Together — PRESUPPOSITIONS

If we lived in a perfect world, and each reader of the Bible were perfect, then without any real impediment we could read the Scripture, understand it perfectly, and teach it to others. If only. In a perfect world, there would be no need for exposition, because every...

Learning to Preach: Putting the Pieces Together – POSTURE

The principles of expositional preaching are like building blocks. We might think of them as shaped differently and made of different substances. This, of course, means that we use them differently and at different times in the process. We might want to think of this...