Deerbrook Covenant

This week is a special celebration of our congregation. We have the carpet removed from our Worship Center and we have exposed the thousands of names of people who have been prayed for from 20 years ago. We will welcome old friends, greet new ones, and tell stories of the faithfulness of God. In addition, we will discuss our message about Jesus. We will study the testimony of John, the son of Zebe...

We are excited for many things as a congregation. We are excited for people, new faces and longtime friends to share life with. We are excited for the promises of God, the promise of being at peace with God.  At Deerbrook, we have a history of faithful people who went before us and passed down a prayerful legacy. They gifted us our wonderful facility and left behind 20 years of coffee stains....

The church must preach two things [1] to bring unbelievers to faith and [2] to bring believers closer to Jesus. However, if unbelievers are unlikely to set foot into a Sunday church service, it must rely on us to take this 'hope in Jesus' out into our communities. This Sunday we are going to discuss questions about hope.  Our friends need to hear about faith, love and hope in Jesus. Our frien...

People wish to be known, want to be heard, and desire to be loved. People on social media are crying out with their joy and pain. We ought to pay attention. Please join us Sunday as we discuss one of the most helpful resources from our denomination. The BLESS journal will help us identify friends to pray for, ways to listen well and teach how to develop deeper relationship; all in a very natural s...

We strive to love Jesus better and bring joy to one another. This week, we continue our discussion on the Spiritual Practice: Leading Others to Jesus.  In a world of bad news, one would think people sharing good news would be highly sought after. Well, we really do have good news to share. Our sins are forgiven! Christ leads us to the Father. Sharing the gospel starts with prayer. Prayer for...

Please join us this Sunday morning for worship, teaching & connection. We are proud of our community that is focused on loving Jesus and loving one another. This week we introduce our next Spiritual Practice: Leading Others to Jesus.  From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible teaches that our sins separate us from the Lord. In the world, we spend our fortunes to entertain ourselves, medicate...

Regarding all the things we worry about day-to-day, Jesus remarks to the crowds, “Seek first his kingdom & his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Jesus’ teaching challenges us to change our priorities. To put God first. To live for his values and pursue his purpose & plans.  God’s purpose is exposed through his righteousness. The concept of his righteou...

This month we are looking at what it means to seek God. If, indeed, there is a Creator God in whose image we are made, would we not want to seek out a relationship with God and come to know God intimately? Would it not be wise to make that relationship the centerpiece of our lives and to pursue God with our entire being—heart, mind, soul, & strength? Last week, we looked at seeking God in comm...

This July, we are discussing what it means ‘to seek the Lord’ based on Jesus’ command to ‘seek first his kingdom and his righteousness’. This means that as individuals, we are encouraged to slow down and take time, lots of time, to pursue Jesus, listen to the Spirit and seek the goodness of the Father. This week we ask, what does it look like to ‘seek the Lord’ together? Surely the Scriptures are...

We invite you to join us to worship our Lord Jesus Christ this Sunday as we continue to seek God’s presence and comfort. We are aiming at authentic community, inspired worship, and the Word of God to form and transform our lives. Last week, we discussed the broken ‘spirit of community’ in America. We landed on Matthew 6:33 ‘But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.' So this Sunday, we will...

On this holiday weekend, we invite you to join us to worship our Lord Jesus Christ. We celebrate our independence from the King of Britain on this weekend, but on any Sunday, we most importantly recognize our allegiance to the King of Heaven. We are citizens of Heaven, and that shapes us. Our Lord Jesus came from Heaven. He taught and brought the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth, and that shapes us. He...

This week we are concluding our series on Developing a Heart of Compassion Mercy & Justice. We will be examining the concepts in the book When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor ... and Yourself by Steve Corbet & Brian Fikkert which is one of the books listed on our Spiritual Practices worksheet. (Book Introduction) Poverty is much more than simply a lack of m...

On this Father’s Day Sunday we will study Psalm 127 and discover what it says about leading our homes and how to put it into practice.  Psalm 127:1-5 "Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain. In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food— yes, he gives sleep to the o...

As we have already seen, developing a heart of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice is to develop a heart that is like God’s heart, for this is how God approaches humanity. In the opening chapter of Jesus’ public ministry, he makes very clear that his mission is to be one of Compassion, Mercy and Justice—good news to the poor, freedom to the prisoners, sight to the blind, and release of the oppressed. A...

Our World is broken, fragmented and simply unjust. But what does the Kingdom of Heaven look like? A place of healing, provision and praise. And who is represented? Scripture clearly says over and over, all nations will praise the LORD. We pray: "Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." Our overwhelming tendency is to protect ourselves and gather with those who ‘look like us’; just keep livi...

God’s call is for us to develop a heart of compassion (sharing the pain), mercy (sharing God’s love), and justice (sharing the role of fixing what is wrong with the world). “To love God & love others.” These are the two greatest commandments, and they demonstrate God’s heart for people. God consistently reveals his will by sending prophets to Kings and his Son to the Earth. This Memorial Day S...

God is constantly redeeming, renewing and rebuilding society and the lives of families. We will be exploring God’s heart for the poor & oppressed, and we hope to offer resources, experiences & practices to build upon his call for us to follow his heart. There is so much wrong with our world it is sometimes overwhelming. But we will look for inspiration in the work of Jesus, the stories of...

In recent weeks, we have laid out the groundwork of applying the Scriptures to our lives & relationships. This week will we take a deeper look into the Scripture and spirit of Deerbrook’s Relational Covenant. It describes how we will behave & live together. Our denomination was founded on the appeal of pietism, a Christian faith that deeply effects our hearts and actions. Psalm 119:63 is o...

In recent weeks, we have laid out the ground work of applying the  Scriptures to our lives & relationships. We discussed Paul’s appeal  to Timothy, and last week traced author’s Greg Gilbert’s presentation of  why we can trust the Bible. So, we trust in the Scripture, and we lean  on God's guidance in our most difficult tasks.   This week on Mother’s day we will speak...

Last week, we examined Paul’s words of encouragement for the young leader Timothy to apply Scripture to his life. Paul asserted that “All Scripture is God-breathed and useful...to equip us for every good work.” 2 Tim. 3:16-17. So this week will ask the question is the Bible trustworthy (particularly the gospels)? The Bible is unique among ancient documents with tens of thousands of sources and fra...

When Paul heard from Jesus while traveling on a dusty road, it forever  changed Paul’s life. The apostle Paul now centered his walk on Christ’s  teaching, allowed the Word to form his character as he began to speak  with others about faith. Then, Paul wrote a good number of letters to  real people about real events in history with advice on how to apply  Scripture to life...

This Sunday, we celebrate Easter morning! The faithful women who have been following Jesus from the beginning of his ministry have now also witnessed his death & burial. They had purchased spices to anoint his body as one last act of devotion. And in their minds, as they traveled to the tomb, they had one troubling question, ‘Who will roll away the stone?’ Little did they know that God had gon...

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This Sunday we will explore Jesus’ prophetic words in Mark Chapter 13 that he shares with a small group of disciples seeking to know when God’s plans will occur. Through Jesus’ words we will uncover the encouragement and hope that He offers us in a scary, uncertain world. Jesus has come, is coming and will come to rescue us from the wars, famines, and earthquakes in our lives. Please consider read...

In Mark chapter 10, Jesus meets a wide range of 1st century Jewish  individuals. He is challenged by the Pharisees about the Law, he blesses  little children, he converses with a rich man and his disciples and  heals a blind man. All in a good day’s work.    What is compelling is Jesus’ consistent call to follow him. For much of  life, we ask the question ‘What is in...