Lance Brown

Timothy and Epaphroditus, two outstanding men who portrayed, at the highest level, what it means to be a mature Christian. May their ideals and their example inspire us to become all we can be in Christ.

What does growing as a Christian look like?  It can be discouraging to feel like everything we pour into ourselves to try to find satisfaction just seems to leak right own.  Is it possible that God’s work in us causes us to find fulfillment and joy in a very different way that the things of…

If there’s anything we hate, it’s emptiness. We so long to be fulfilled, to be satisfied. In Philippians 2, Paul tells us Jesus “emptied Himself!” As He walked through the door of emptying Himself, He walked the real and true road to what He called “life, indeed,” or “the abundant life.”

It is said that God never wastes our pain.  I believe this is true.  However, that is not a promise of pain-free living.  Paul understood that God’s eternal purposes were more important that his temporary pain.  Christ endured unimaginable pain for us.  Our goal, then, should be to walk in a manner worthy of the…