Lance Brown

Portraits of Jesus – The Bread of Life

02/07/2021

John 6 is a powerhouse chapter Jesus feeds the 5,000, walks on water, and teaches on being the ‘Bread of Life.’  The divinity of Christ is on display in His miracles, and His teaching about His identity and the “life” that He wants to give us paint such a powerful picture of his character and…

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Portraits of Jesus – The Life-Giving Physician

01/31/2021

Jesus has been called the “Great Physician.” We think of His miracles of healing. But those miracles of healing our physical bodies point to a far greater miracle–the healing of our heart and soul.  He doesn’t just mean physical life and death. He points to something greater–spiritual life and death, both in this world and the…

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Sufficiency of Christ

01/25/2021

The sufficiency of Christ is something that most Christians would say, “Yes!  I absolutely believe in the sufficiency of Christ.”  However, what that really means came to a very sharp point as we discussed it one week in our LifeGroup’s study in Colossians Chapter 1. Here Paul talks to the church about how excited he…

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Portraits of Jesus – Thirst, and Living Water

01/24/2021

We can spend a lifetime looking for that which will fill our souls. We can look far and wide, with people, with events, with experiences, with acquisitions, and with just about anything else you of which comes to mind.  But we will never touch the deepest parts of our soul until we find what Jesus…

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Portraits of Jesus – Divine Teacher

01/17/2021

In John 3, Jesus teaches Nicodemus, a committed leader of Judaism, about the necessity of being born again. John 3 also lays out God’s rescue mission of men and women who are lost, guilty, and without hope, in need of rescue! But most folks aren’t interested, not believing they need rescuing, and certainly not interested in…

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Portraits of Jesus – Son of Man

01/10/2021

This week we’ll study John 2.  As we read about Jesus turning water into wine at a wedding, and Jesus cleansing the temple, let’s make some observations about our human nature that often come back to bite us in the “you know what” in our personal life, relationships, and our relationship with God.

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