Lance Brown
Sanctity of Life
This coming Sunday is Sanctity of Life Sunday. This week’s devotions are not about the politics of abortion, nor are they about the legality of abortion. We will look at, what does the bible say about “life?” Does the bible have anything to say about life in the womb? When does a person become a person?
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Community: The Stumbling Dance With the Lost
We’ve looked at how we’re included in the wondrous dance of the Trinity. It is the place where everything we long for most happens. We long to be loved, accepted, to know we matter, to be included, and a host of other deep longings. You will find these needs nowhere else for very long. Church…
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Community: The Stumbling Dance of the Church
God’s people are to related in three communities. 1. We enjoy the incredible love of the Holy Trinity and participate in it! 2. We build the Church Community, the body of Christ, as we serve and love. 3. We enter the Lost Community, to be God’s agents of redemption. Your purpose of life is found in…
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Community: The Dance of the Trinity
As Christians, we are to live IN three communities. The “community” of the Trinity–God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God includes us in the life of that community! We live in community together as God’s people. We live in the community of lost people. We are to be salt and light. …
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New Year’s Resolutions
Much has been said and written about New Year’s Resolutions. Some people laud them and suggest that if you don’t set any goals, you don’t have anything to shoot for in terms of personal growth. Others believe that we all set far too lofty a set of goals, and that we don’t even have a…
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Advent: 24
This coming Sunday the 26th we are going to be looking at a day in the life of Jesus as we dig into the last section of the book of Mark in a sermon called 24 (Cue Jack Bauer and the beeping countdown clock). But, leading up to a typical day for Jesus, was a…
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