Bodies Fit For A Heavenly Home (Philippians 3:20-21)
The single truth that will most effectively fix your heart, mind, and affections upon Heaven, our eternal home and reward, is the truth of our future bodily resurrection. Reminding us that our citizenship is in Heaven, Paul describes our eventual transformation at the...
The Purpose of God’s Perfect Discipline, Part 2 (Hebrews 12:9-10)
The author contrasts the imperfection of the discipline of earthly fathers with the perfection of the discipline of our Heavenly Father. God's discipline is aimed at producing holiness in our lives allowing us to share in His holiness. An exposition of Hebrews...
The Purpose of God’s Perfect Discipline, Part 1 (Hebrews 12:9-10)
The author contrasts the imperfection of the discipline of earthly fathers with the perfection of the discipline of our Heavenly Father. God's discipline is aimed at producing holiness in our lives allowing us to share in His holiness. An exposition of Hebrews...
Discipline: The Certificate of Adoption, Part 2 (Hebrews 12:6-8)
We are commanded to endure affliction as the discipline that comes from a loving Heavenly Father Who intends only our best and highest joy. Discipline is inseparable from our status as sons. It is not only essential that children be trained, sometimes painfully if...
Discipline: The Certificate of Adoption, Part 1 (Hebrews 12:6-8)
We are commanded to endure affliction as the discipline that comes from a loving Heavenly Father Who intends only our best and highest joy. Discipline is inseparable from our status as sons. It is not only essential that children be trained, sometimes painfully if...
Do Not Despair Under Discipline (Hebrews 12:5)
We are commanded to not despise God's discipline and to not despair under God's discipline. These are two extremes we should avoid in our responses to God's loving discipline. We look at four ways that believers despair under discipline. An exposition of Hebrews 12:5....
Don’t Despise Discipline (Hebrews 12:5)
Believers are warned against two opposite errors we may commit when facing God's discipline: despising it and despairing under it. In this passage we look at some ways we show a light regard for God's discipline in our lives. An exposition of Hebrews 12:5. Sermon...
Embracing God’s Discipline, Part 3 (Hebrews 12:4-5)
Discipline is essential for the child of God. Running our race requires us to embrace God's discipline knowing that He disciplines us out of love and intends our good through it. An exposition of Hebrews 12:4-5. Sermon Transcript Download PDF If you are joining us...
Embracing God’s Discipline, Part 2 (Hebrews 12:4-5)
Discipline is essential for the child of God. Running our race requires us to embrace God's discipline knowing that He disciplines us out of love and intends our good through it. An exposition of Hebrews 12:4-5. Sermon Transcript Download PDF Hebrews chapter 12,...
Embracing God’s Discipline, Part 1 (Hebrews 12:4-5)
Discipline is essential for the child of God. Running our race requires us to embrace God's discipline knowing that He disciplines us out of love and intends our good through it. An exposition of Hebrews 12:4-5. Sermon Transcript Download PDF Well, discipline—that is...

Jim Osman
Pastor-Teacher
Jim Osman was born in May of 1972 and has lived in Sandpoint since he was three. He achieved his life’s ambition by graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1990. Jim came to know Christ through the ministry of Cocolalla Lake Bible Camp. Kootenai Community Church has always been his home church, attending Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and Youth Group.
After graduating from High School, he attended Millar College of the Bible in Pambrun, Saskatchewan. It was at Bible College that Jim met his wife-to-be, Diedre, who was also enrolled as a student. Jim graduated with a three-year diploma in April 1993 and married Diedre in August of that same year. He returned to Millar to further his education in September 1994 and graduated from the Fourth Year Internship Program with a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Ministries in April 1995.
Jim and Diedre returned to Sandpoint, where Jim began working in construction and as a Roofing Materials Application Specialist (roofer) until he was asked to take over as the Preaching Elder of Kootenai Community Church in December 1996. Now, he counts it as his greatest privilege to be involved in ministering in the Church that has ministered to him for so many years. It has been a great adventure!
Jim is the author of Truth or Territory: A Biblical Approach to Spiritual Warfare, Selling the Stairway to Heaven, The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Study of Psalm 73, God Doesn’t Whisper, and his latest book, God Doesn’t Try, which he co-wrote with co-elder Dave Rich. Jim and Diedre have four children: Taryn, Shepley, Ayden, and Liam.