“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” — Matthew 5:4

What does Jesus mean? How can mourning possibly be blessed?

In this Oak Hill College Chapel message, Vaughan Roberts opens the second Beatitude and explores what it truly means to grieve over sin — our own, the church’s, and the world’s — and how that mourning leads to the deep comfort of the gospel.

This is a searching message about repentance, shame, confession, and the astonishing comfort found in Christ.

📖 Passage: Matthew 5:4 📍 Oak Hill College Chapel 🎙 Speaker: Vaughan Roberts

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What does a healthy church look like?

In this Oak Hill College Chapel message, we explore the “spiritual DNA” of the church at Antioch in Acts of the Apostles 11–13. Antioch was a diverse, strategic, international church — and a model of gospel health.

From this passage we see that:

Jesus plants his church

Jesus grows his church

Jesus uses his church

Through ordinary believers, encouragement, faithful teaching, generous giving, and strategic sending, God builds and advances his kingdom.

What would it look like for that same DNA to be visible in our churches today?

📖 Passage: Acts 11:19–26; 13:1–3

📍 Oak Hill College Chapel

🎙 Speaker: John Percival

John Percival is Senior Pastor of Eden Baptist Church. He previously served in pastoral ministry in London and Hong Kong, and has a longstanding commitment to expository preaching, church health, and training leaders for gospel ministry. In this message, John speaks at Oak Hill College Chapel, opening up Acts 11–13 and reflecting on the spiritual DNA of a healthy church.

00:00 – Introduction: Spiritual DNA

01:20 – Jesus Plants His Church (Acts 11:19–21)

03:45 – Antioch: A Strategic City

06:45 – Jesus Grows His Church

07:20 – Barnabas: The Ministry of Encouragement

09:45 – Teaching and Identity: “Called Christians”

12:00 – The Power of Encouragement

15:10 – Generous Giving Across Cultures

17:10 – Sending the Best: Acts 13

19:30 – The Grace Behind It All

21:30 – Prayer

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What if pride is the hidden root beneath so many of our struggles?

In this Oak Hill College Chapel talk, we explore Daniel 5 and the fall of Belshazzar — a king whose pride looked obvious and foolish. But pride isn’t always loud or boastful. More often, it hides behind perfectionism, prayerlessness, anxiety, carelessness, even ministry.

Daniel 5 shines a light on the foolishness of pride. But it doesn’t just tell us to “try harder” or “be more humble.” Instead, it points us to the Most High God — and ultimately to King Jesus, who uses all his power in a posture of humility for a purpose of love.

The gospel doesn’t just expose pride. It frees us from it.

“Turn from foolish pride by trusting the humble King.”

📖 Passage: Daniel 5

📍 Oak Hill College Chapel

🎙 Speaker: Rob Hudson

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