Best Protestant Church Oakland Near Me

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Resurrection Oakland is a new church in Oakland seeking to love God, love one another, and love our city. We don’t have all the answers. Nor do we have it all together. Rather, we are broken, messy people who are learning the way of Jesus and how to live for a story bigger than ourselves.

We gather on Sundays at 10 am at 1701 Franklin St in Downtown Oakland.

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Our congregation, a merger between Our Saviour and First Lutheran Church of Oakland, evolves each day. As a member church of the Sierra Pacific Synod of California of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America, our United’s history extends more than 125 years in the Bay Area.

At United, you will not only find a welcoming and active church home and community of friends, you will also find competent and compassionate high quality early childhood development education and serving children age 2 to 6 years. Throughout our history we have always offered high quality preschool education and that tradition continues through our partnership with Kids Konnect. To learn more, please visit Kids Konnect www.kidskonnect.com

As an active member of the East Bay Lutheran Parishes Ministry, which is a collective of five Evangelical Lutheran Churches serving the Oakland - Alameda communities, we are more than the sum of our parts.

Together, United, Trinity Oakland, Resurrection, Trinity Alameda, and St. Paul sponsor a Champlain ministry at Bay Area Healthcare Center, Fruitvale Healthcare Center, and Windsor Willow Tree Nursing Center in Oakland and Crown Bay Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Alameda. We also sponsor the East Bay Lutheran Youth Program which provides leadership development opportunities and Christian education to our elementary through high school age members. To learn more about the parish, please visit eastbaylutheranparish.org

We believe that Giving Is Receiving and we stand among giants of good will and courage.

Thanks to the forward thinking of so many former and active members, we support numerous social justice causes.

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We are so delighted that you have joined us today!. My hope is that you find our website informative, our worship services uplifting & meaningful and the people warm and engaging.

Allen Temple has over 40 active wholistic ministries committed to serving the least, the lost and the left out. In addition, we believe we are called to fulfill the mission given to us in Matthew 28:18-20.


If you are looking for a place to call home, to grow spiritually and connect with others, It would be our pleasure to be your church family and have you join us in service to God and God's people.


For more information about who we are, please take the time to peruse the sections of this website.


Well, here we are. In the middle of Holy Week, just days away from Resurrection Sunday! It has certainly been a journey from Ash Wednesday to what religious history refers to as "Spy Wednesday". Yes, you read it right. The reference is based on Luke 22:3-6. Some scholars believe that today, over 1900 years ago:


Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve; he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them. They were greatly pleased and agreed to give him money. So he consented and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them when no crowd was present. Luke 22:3-6 NRSV. Judas spent this week looking for a good time to turn Jesus in.


I must admit, I am always struck by the beginning of verse 3, then Satan entered into Judas. What? How is that even possible? Judas was personally selected by Jesus to follow him. Judas walked with Jesus and witnessed the many miracles he performed first hand. When Jesus sent the Disciples out and equipped them with the power to heal and cast out demons, Judas received his portion. Judas heard the teachings on the hillside and in the synagogue. He was present for the most private moments and was even entrusted as the designated financial officer of the ministry. What do you mean Satan entered Judas? How did Judas end up here? Time and space will not allow me to explore the many theories that have been postulated throughout history. But please allow me to offer one possibility.


Our time together these past few weeks have been about a process of intentionally pausing to "hear Christ" in hopes of being more like Christ in our daily lives: Centering Down. Moreover, we highlighted the obstacles that can hinder this process and the disciplines designed to help fuel it. There is one more that we must consider. This one helps me make sense of Judas in Jesus' day and the Judas that lives in each of us. SURRENDER, the act of giving to the influence or authority of another. Surrender is the most difficult and perhaps the most important of the disciplines. Mainly, because it requires a crucifixion of our own. Our will, our expectations, our desired outcomes, our reasoning and so many other things must remain malleable on this journey.


I can imagine Judas must have been supremely disappointed and probably disillusioned by the idea that his notion of kingdom and freedom would not be realized. I am sure he must have been even a bit angry that the revolution he hoped for would not be televised. But rather than engaging in his own Garden of Gethsemane experience and reaching a place of surrender, he was driven to see his vision come to pass by any means necessary. And whenever we decide our will, plan, perspective, or understanding is greater than God's, whenever we refuse to give in to the influence and authority of God - Satan can and will enter in.


I read a headline a few days ago that I never thought I would see. Did you see it? It said, "Trump surrenders to face historic charges...He will turn himself in if indicted". It's Holy Week and you've still got time. Turn Yourself In...Surrender Voluntarily!

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Join us for worship led by our pastor, Todd Benson at 11AM every Sunday at 959 12th Street in Oakland.

*Join us every Sunday for church service led by our pastor Todd Benson! You can also join our Sunday service via zoom! For more information call us at 510-452-2245.

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We worship to thank and praise God as we experience God’s grace.