Lance Brown
Fall Festival – TONIGHT!!
Starting at 5:30pm, going until 8:00pm. Fun for the whole family! For the kids: – Bounce house, carnival games, trunk-r-treating, and a costume contest!! For the adults there is also: – Chili Cook-off, coffee shop music, burgers & bratworsts
Read MoreFinding Joy in Discouraging Times
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…
Read MoreFinding Joy in Empty Times
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.”
Read MoreFinding Joy In Suffering
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…
Read MoreFinding Purpose in Hard Times
Finding joy in difficult situations: that is the message of Philippians. This week we’ll see how Paul’s perspective, purpose, and priorities, along with God’s power and his desire to please God brought joy to Paul in spite of prison and difficult circumstances with some who claimed to be Christians.
Read MoreI Am Who You Say I Am
If you haven’t heard it, it’s a pretty popular new song by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan. Often, we love to sing songs in church that have a catchy hook, and a great melodic build. The power and pulse of the music lifts us up in a way that is difficult to explain, and we…
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