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Ozark Christian College
Joplin, Missouri 64801
417-624-2518 x. 2505

About Dru
  • Education: BBL - Ozark Christian College MA - Cincinnati Bible Seminary Courses completed @ Oklahoma Christian University of Sciences & Arts (Edmond, OK), Lincoln Christian Seminary
  • Experience: Ministry Internships @ FCC, Owasso, OK; FCC, Napa, CA; Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, KY; Planted new church in Corydon, IN 1990 - 1996 OCC - 1996 -present
  • Family: Wife: LeAnn Daughters: Jessica, Annie, & Molly Beth
  • Best advice given to me about preaching: If you don’t strike oil in twenty minutes, stop boring.
  • Books that have had an impact: Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren When God Builds a Church by Bob Russell Seven Habits of Effective People & First Things First- S. Covey The Jesus I Never Knew & What’s So Amazing About Grace-P. Yancey Eugene Peterson’s The Message A Hunger for God by John Piper Anything by Max Lucado & John Maxwell
  • Hobbies: Reading, writing, editing, running, cycling, watching sports, spending time with my girls!
  • If I could Preach one more time, I would say...: Trust Jesus -- don’t make it the last thing you do!
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  • Comfort Zone Or End Zone?

    Contributed on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 104 ratings
     | 31,307 views

    Motivational chapel message to inspire the student body, faculty, and staff @ Ozark Christian College to spiritually stretch themselves for Christ’s glory.

    Comfort Zone or End Zone ? Selected Scriptures * The Visual Bible: Matthew (8:1-4; 26:36-56) I love these scenes! The first one, from the first four verses of Matt. 8, reveals the utter self less ness of Jesus – when everyone else steered clear of this poor man with leprosy, our ...read more

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  • Voice Mail

    Contributed on Dec 20, 2001
    based on 34 ratings
     | 3,850 views

    VOICE MAIL While we have a direct access to our Heavenly Father, imagine if He had one of those computer-answering devices. It might be something like this: As we begin to pray we hear... Thank you for calling your Heavenly Father’s house. Your call may be monitored for quality ...read more

  • Someone Has To Grow Up

    Contributed on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,264 views

    SOMEONE HAS TO GROW UP “We’re all selfish. Selfish to the core. God sometimes chooses to deal with our selfishness by giving us someone to care for who is infinitely more selfish than you. Babies are not only the cutest creatures on the face of the earth, they are by far the most selfish. ...read more

  • Bill Hybels Puts It This Way: "I Would Never ...

    Contributed on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,086 views

    Bill Hybels puts it this way: “I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand – a hand never dirtied by serving ...read more

  • Don't Quit

    Contributed on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,539 views

    DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low, and the debts are high, and you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is ...read more

  • Perseverance

    Contributed on Dec 19, 2001
    based on 10 ratings
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    Perseverance When all the world is looming dark And things seem not so clear, When shadows seem to hover ’round Lord, may I persevere. When it seems everything’s been tried And there’s no way to go, Just let me keep remembering Sometimes the journey’s slow. I may just need to stop ...read more