Lance Brown

Everyone hates to face their sin. We bend over backward to live in denial, pretense, and with a willful blindness to our own heart. The more we face the reality of the sin nature that lies within us, the greater the wonder grace will become to us. But we must receive God’s grace into ourselves. …

The most amazing aspect of the Christian life is grace!  Grace radically affects how I think about myself, how I live, and my identity, just to name a few.  Today Pastor Mark walks us through Ephesians Chapter 2 and how much we need God as he talks about sinfulness of sin, the magnificence of mercy,…

In Daniel Chapter 6, we see the influence Daniel has built over a life time. His excellence, character and faithfulness led him to be an incredible witness of Yahweh, but even late in his life, he went through incredible and unexpected hardship. Today we consider how the challenges he experienced applies to our lives today.

Our last “Re-routing” toward eternal joy is failure. Though failure has an awful sting to it, it is most painfully true for men, as Genesis 3 tells us. Frustration, futility, and failure are meant to drive men to God, not just in a generic way, but specifically, to discover a joy they would never experience apart from…

Re-routing to joy path #8 is through suffering. It strikes every one of us, somehow, some way. Yet, our redemptive God uses even the very worst that happens to us to bring us, eventually, to a kind of joy that nothing else will produce! Though it is painful, it brings us back to God in a…

Trials are something we don’t really look forward to, but they come into everyone’s life, shaping and testing us.  For some, trials shape us toward resentment, bitterness, and cynicism, but God makes the audacious claim that when trials come, they provide a reason for joy!  This week we’ll discover why and how that happens.