Lost & Found Fellowship

Lost & Found Fellowship Please join us Sunday mornings at 10:30 am located at 215 S.

Illinois Ave, Oak Ridge TN 37830 (inside the Hampton Inn Conference room)

We are excited to have you all with us and look forward to meeting you all. Lost & Found Fellowship is a small group of Bible believing and teaching believers who seek to reach the lost and hurting within our community with the love and saving power of God in Jesus Christ. We endeavor to fulfill this mission through in-pers

on services as well as online via our established social media platforms. Our Mission:

Representing God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

“In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” -Luke 15:10 (NIV)

Our Vision:

A place where the lost become found and made new in Christ

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” -2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

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09/08/2026

You may not like this one but read to the end!

Devotional - One Unforgivable Sin (And It Isn't the One You're Afraid Of)

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven." Matthew 12:31 (ESV)

I've seen the posts. And underneath all of them is a question people are too scared to ask their pastor:

If a man has a wrong thought, a flash of lust, a burst of rage, a lie he hasn't confessed yet, walks out to his truck, and a wreck takes him instantly, is he in hell? He never had time to repent.

Be honest about what that question assumes. It assumes salvation is a running tally, and whether you make it depends on whether the accident came before or after your prayer. It assumes you are held by your own timing. That's not the gospel. That's roulette.

What actually holds you "I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will sn**ch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to sn**ch them out of the Father's hand." John 10:28–29 (ESV)

No one. Not an enemy. Not a bad week. Not a bad final hour. And notice, the grip is not yours. It's His. If your salvation depended on how tightly you were holding on, every one of us would have let go by now.

And Jesus is the one who tells us where the line is. One sin is named unforgivable, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the settled, final rejection of the Spirit's testimony about Christ. Every other kind of sin, every kind, falls under the blood. If Scripture names one, we do not get to quietly add a second one of our own choosing.

Which brings us to the hard one

So how would Su***de be unforgivable? It isn't on the list. And I've saw too many families who were handed a second grief on top of the first by someone who put it there.

A person can love the Lord, serve Him, praise Him, be the strongest Christian anyone can see on the outside, and be drowning on the inside. Depression. Anxiety. Mental illness. God does not stop loving His child the moment their flesh gives out. Your standing rests on your relationship with the Father, not on your best day or your worst one.

Hear both halves of that. It doesn't mean no sin occurred. And it doesn't mean God can't heal, He can, completely, and often He does it through a doctor, a counselor, and a church that refuses to look away. Grace covers you; it also comes to get you. If you are in that dark place, tell somebody today. Not because God is done with you, because He isn't.

Nobody is exempt. Claim you don't sin and you've crowned yourself the second perfect man to walk this earth, and there's only ever been one, and His name is Jesus Christ.

"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23 (ESV)
Daily. Not once, at an altar, in 2009. Die to yourself daily. Repent daily. Not to re-earn a seat you already have, to walk close to the One who gave it to you.

Repentance isn't the price of the Father's grip. It's how you live inside it.

So the question was never what was the last thing they did? The real question is: did they surrender their life to Christ and trust that His death paid for all of it, past, present, and the sin they never got to name? Were they pointing people toward God?

If the answer is yes, then Scripture is clear. There is one unforgivable sin, and it isn't the one you're afraid of. And no one, no one, can sn**ch them out of His hand.

Father, thank You that I am held by Your hand and not by mine. Search my heart today and cleanse what I find there. For everyone reading this who is tired of pretending they're fine, give them the courage to say it out loud, and put someone in the room who will stay. And for every family carrying a loss the world has been cruel about, give them peace, and give them Your word instead of ours. In Jesus' name, amen.

If you're struggling, please reach out, call or text 988 (Su***de & Crisis Lifeline). You are not a burden and you are not too far gone.

09/08/2026

Scripture of the Day

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)

Devotional — The New Has Come

It's Monday, a fresh page in the week, and Paul hands us a fresh reminder: if you belong to Christ, you are not a patched-up version of your old self. You are a new creation. Not improved. Not renovated. New. The old has passed away, and it isn't coming back to define you.This is easy to say and hard to believe on a Monday morning, when the same old habits, worries, and regrets often greet us before we've even had coffee. But Paul isn't describing a feeling we're supposed to work up, he's describing a fact already accomplished in Christ. The newness doesn't wait until we feel different; it's already true the moment we're in Him.Notice, too, that this newness isn't private or passive. Just a verse later, Paul says God has given us the ministry of reconciliation, this new life is meant to overflow into how we treat others, how we forgive, how we make peace. Being made new isn't just about shedding old guilt; it's about stepping into a new way of relating to the people around us this week.So as you start this week, you don't have to drag Sunday's failures, or last month's, or last year's, into today. The old has passed away. Whatever felt stale, stuck, or ashamed can be left at the cross, and you can walk into today as who you actually are in Christ: new.

Lord, thank You that my identity doesn't rest on my past mistakes but on Your finished work in Christ. Where I've been carrying old guilt or old patterns into this new week, remind me: I am a new creation. Help me live like it, and help me extend that same grace to others today. Amen.

09/04/2026

Scripture of the Day

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love."
1 John 4:18 (ESV)

Devotional — Perfected in Love

It’s Friday, and if this week has left you carrying a low hum of anxiety, about a relationship, a decision, or even where you stand with God, John has good news for you before the weekend begins. He doesn't say fear is a moral failure to be ashamed of. He says fear and love are, in a real sense, opposites: where perfect love is fully at work, fear has no room left to stand.Notice what kind of fear John has in mind. He ties it to punishment, the anxious dread of a guilty defendant expecting judgment. That's not the posture God wants us to have toward Him. A few verses earlier, John reminds us that we love because he first loved us (v. 19). Love isn't something we generate to earn safety with God; it's something we receive from Him first, and that received love is what slowly drives out the fear of judgment.This doesn't mean healthy fear vanishes entirely, reverence, conscience, and caution still have their place. But the fear John is talking about is the kind that keeps us guessing at our standing with God, bracing for rejection instead of resting in adoption. The more we grasp how secure we are in Christ, the less power that dread has over us. So as you close out this week, ask yourself honestly: is there a fear you're carrying that really belongs to an old, punishment-shaped picture of God? Bring it to Him plainly. Let His settled, perfect love, not your performance, be what quiets it.

Lord, thank You that You loved us first, before we had anything to offer You. Where I've been bracing for punishment instead of resting in Your love, perfect that love in me. Cast out my fear, and replace it with the confidence of a child, not the dread of a defendant. Amen.

09/03/2026

Three Mentors and One Mirror

Jeremiah 17:5–8 (ESV)“Thus says the LORD: ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD… Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream.’”

Let's be honest: people you looked up to let you down. Not strangers, mentors. People whose voice you carried into rooms they'd never walk into. People whose approval you were still chasing long after you stopped needing it. And when they failed, something in you cracked wider than it should have.

Here's the hard part. The size of the crack told you something. You don't collapse over a man unless you were standing on one.

God wasn't punishing you with those letdowns. He was showing you a mirror. Because somewhere along the way, the pattern changed, the crisis hit, and you picked up the phone before you got on your knees. You wanted counsel before you wanted the Counselor. You asked what they thought before you asked what He said. And every one of those calls felt like wisdom. It just wasn't worship.

Men make fine advisors and terrible foundations. Jeremiah says the man who leans on flesh becomes “like a shrub in the desert”, dependent on someone else's rain. But the one who trusts the LORD sends roots to the stream. Same drought. Different root system.

God didn't take those mentors away from you. He took you off of them.
Paul had to say it to a church that was picking sides between its favorite leaders: “What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed… So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth” (1 Cor. 3:5–7). Servants. Not saviors. They were never supposed to hold the weight you handed them, and honestly, they never asked to.

So forgive them. All three. They were flesh doing what flesh does, and one day somebody will need to forgive you for the same. But don't stop at forgiveness, repent of the part that was yours. Not the trust. The order.

“It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man” (Ps. 118:8).

Lord, I'm sorry for going to men first. Thank You for letting them fail me, because I would never have let go on my own. Be my first call, my first counsel, my first refuge. Send my roots to the stream. Amen.

And then, the next time it hits, before you text anybody, say it out loud: God, what do You say?

09/02/2026

Devotional - I Don't Own the Church:
John 10:14–16; 1 Corinthians 3:5–7 (ESV)

Let me say something out loud that pastors don't always like to admit: I don't own the church. God does. And I don't own the people. God does.

It's an easy thing to forget. You pour years into a place. You sit up with people at midnight. You bury their mother, dedicate their baby, walk them through the divorce nobody else knew about. And somewhere in all that love, the heart quietly slips from shepherd to owner. Then one Sunday a seat is empty, and it doesn't feel like a transfer, it feels like a theft.

But Jesus said it plainly:

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me... And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also." John 10:14–16

My own. Not mine. His. Every single one of them was His before they ever walked through our doors, and they will be His long after.

Paul had to learn the same lesson in a church that was busy picking sides:

"What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed... I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth."
1 Corinthians 3:5–6

Servants. That's the job title. Not owner. Not proprietor. A servant doesn't get to decide where the Master sends the household.

So hear this, and let it set you free: if God leads somebody somewhere that isn't you, that's God. That's not rejection. That's not betrayal. That's not a verdict on your ministry. Some people God sends to you for a season, and some He sends through you toward a work you'll never see. Barnabas and Paul parted ways, and God got two mission teams out of it (Acts 15:39–40). Not every ending is a failure. Some endings are assignments.

And while we're being honest, we all make mistakes. Including me. I've preached sermons I'd preach differently now. I've said things I wish I could pull back out of the air. I've been short when I should have been slow, and silent when I should have spoken. I'm not the finished article; I'm a man in progress leading people in progress.

The church doesn't need a perfect pastor. It has a perfect Shepherd. It just needs an honest one.
"But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." 2 Corinthians 4:7
The cracks in the jar aren't the scandal. They're the point. That's how the light gets out.

So today: open your hands. Bless who's leaving. Love who's staying. Forgive the pastor, forgive the member, forgive yourself. And let the One who bought the church with His own blood (Acts 20:28) carry the weight of owning it, because He never asked you to.

Lord, this is Your church, not mine. These are Your people, not mine. Where You lead them, let me bless them and let go. Where I've failed, forgive me and grow me. Keep me a servant, and keep You the Shepherd. In Jesus' name, amen.

09/02/2026

Scripture of the Day

"May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 15:5-6 (ESV)🙏

Devotional

It’s Tuesday, the middle of the week can feel like the grind, the day when patience with one another wears thinnest. Paul, writing to a divided church in Rome, doesn't ask them to simply tolerate each other. He prays for something deeper: that God himself, described here as 'the God of endurance and encouragement', would grant them harmony, a shared mind rooted 'in accord with Christ Jesus.'

Notice the order: endurance comes before encouragement, and both come from God, not from our own effort to just get along. Harmony among believers isn't a personality trick or a truce we negotiate, it's a gift we receive from the same God who patiently endured for our sake. When we're tempted to write someone off this week, we can ask the God of endurance to give us His patience, not our own limited supply of it.

And the goal of that harmony isn't merely peace and quiet, it's worship. Paul says unity exists 'that together you may with one voice glorify God.' Our fellowship isn't at its best when everyone simply agrees; it's at its best when our differences dissolve into a single voice lifted in praise. A small church like ours, where everyone knows everyone, has every opportunity to live this out, and every opportunity to fall short of it too.

So today, consider one relationship that needs a little more of God's endurance and encouragement. Ask Him for it specifically. Harmony with one another is not the absence of friction, it's the presence of Christ shaping how we handle the friction.

Lord, You are the God of endurance and encouragement. Grant us a heart to live in harmony with one another, not by our own strength, but by Your Spirit, so that together, with one voice, we might glorify You. Amen.

08/31/2026

Scripture of the Day

“Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."
Isaiah 43:19 (ESV)

Devotional — A New Thing

God speaks these words to a weary, exiled people who could only see wilderness ahead, dry ground, no clear path, nothing but the memory of better days behind them. Before He even describes the new thing, He asks a simple, piercing question: do you not perceive it? God's work often begins quietly, springing up before we've fully noticed it, easy to miss if we're only looking backward.

Monday mornings can feel a lot like standing at the edge of a wilderness. A new week stretches out ahead with its unknowns, deadlines, appointments, conversations we're dreading, or just the plain grind of ordinary tasks. It's tempting to walk into it bracing for dryness, expecting more of the same. But God's promise here isn't vague optimism; it's specific and active: I will make a way... rivers in the desert. He doesn't just tolerate wilderness seasons, He works within them, making provision where we assumed there was none.

Notice that God doesn't ask His people to manufacture the new thing themselves. He says I am doing it. Our part is simply to perceive it, to stay alert, expectant, willing to notice grace and provision even in unlikely places this week. Sometimes the new thing is obvious: an answered prayer, an open door. Other times it's subtle: unexpected patience in a hard conversation, a moment of peace you didn't manufacture, a small kindness that lands right when you needed it.

As you step into this week, resist the urge to assume it will look just like the last one. God is not limited by our routines or our low expectations. Ask Him this morning to open your eyes to what He's already springing forth around you, and then walk into your week watching for it.

Lord, You are the God who makes a way where we see none. As we begin this new week, open our eyes to perceive what You are doing, even in the dry and uncertain places. Make a way for us, and help us to trust You with what's ahead. Amen.

08/30/2026

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