Lance Brown

We usually attribute loneliness to the failures of someone else. However, before we ever draw that conclusion, there are two failures of our own that precipitate a greater loneliness than what anyone else’s failures can bring. God can use our damaged selves as of one of the routes to true joy!

All of us experience unmet longings. We then redouble our efforts to fill our emptiness and loneliness we sometimes feel. Our efforts and the results are very short-lived. Surprisingly, God does not seem to be cooperating to get the people in our lives to come through for us!  What is God doing? He’s re-routing us.…

Pursuing the world’s definition of joy is like riding on the interstate highway. We just naturally assume that’s the fastest and surest way to where we are going, that is, until we hit a sig alert or an ice storm that has caused the crashes of hundreds of cars. God defines “joy” differently than you and…

As we finish our study of King David, we will see the sin of the people and of David; we will see how Satan reacts, and how God deals with the whole mess, both in judgment and in mercy.

David’s life was hard. He faced challenge after challenge. Some of them were of his own making, and some of them were the results of human evil against him.  Yet God made Himself known to David in such a way that David not only found deliverance through every trial but also found the deepest joys…