Lance Brown
Christmas Show: “That’s the Good News!”
Through our Christmas Show this year, we think about loss, and living in a fallen world at Christmas time, when our hearts long for the abundant life and “Peace on Earth.” It is only when we are finding that life in our relationship with God AND then giving it away to someone else in conversations…
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: The Upside-Down Peace
We assume peace comes from everything going “smoothly,” or when we get our way. We may experience a few moments of peace, but life continues to throw challenges at us. In the upside-down kingdom, God uses all of those “opportunities” to slowly train us how to be at peace regardless of our situations, no matter…
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: The Shepherds and their Faith
We live in the age of “mega influencers” and “micro-influencers.” (Yes, I had to look up what those terms meant). It was not to the “connected,” to those “trending,” to “the beautiful people,” or “celebrities” that the most important message was told. It was to what we often hear–to the “lowly” shepherds. Why? Why would God choose shepherds…
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Good News!
This Christmas Season, Pacific Church is going to be putting together a musical show called “That’s the Good News!” The show talks a lot about the struggles of an older gentleman who hosts a news radio show by the name “That’s the Good News!” However, the host is going through a huge emotional struggle as…
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CHRISTMAS SHOW – “That’s the Good News!”
That’s the Good News! Tells the story of Will, a radio news announcer in the small town of Pinckney, Nebraska. Will is facing his first Christmas without his wife of forty years. Through a series of events and interactions with his studio engineer Tucker, daughter Lynn, son-in-law Aaron and granddaughter Annie, he finds his way…
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: The Upside-Down King
It’s very easy to think of Christmas as a cute baby, born in a manger, wrapped in cloths, with the shepherds, and later the kings bearing their three gifts. The import of the scene is easily lost. The Christmas story is God’s rescue mission, where Jesus Christ, God’s Son, takes on human flesh and becomes one of…
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