Dream Church with Joshua Brown

In "I Pledge Allegiance To…," Pastor Joshua preaches from Matthew 5:1-12 and Matthew 7:24-29, presenting the Sermon on the Mount as the constitution of the kingdom of God, the preamble and the closing call to build on the rock by actually living Jesus' words. Allegiance, he argues, is single and total: we cannot mistake a political party, left or right, for the kingdom, because Jesus...

In "Calling Things Up From The Dead," Joshua preaches from 1 Samuel 28:3-25 and Psalm 130, recovering Halloween as All Hallows' ( meaning souls' ) Eve, the vigil before a three-day church festival to remember the saints. Saul, deaf to the Lord after a long pattern of grasping control, turns to the medium at Endor to call Samuel up from the grave, and the sermon asks where we do t...

In "Asleep in the Storm," Pastor Joshua preaches Luke 8:22-25 alongside the witness of Paul Schneider, the German pastor who preached this same text weeks before his arrest and martyrdom in a Nazi camp, to show that the church has always faced the question of what to do when the storm comes and Christ seems asleep. The sermon turns on the opening line, "He got into a boat with his d...

This week Pastor Joshua preaches "The Illogical Kingdom of God" from Luke 5:1-11. We tend to live by a logic built on fear, hoarding what little we have because we are convinced there will never be enough, but Jesus shatters that logic when he sends tired fishermen into the deep at the worst possible hour and fills their nets until they break. If you are afraid, tired, or running on empt...

Incarnational Gospel: the good news that God did not just visit humanity; he joined himself to it forever, so you are never alone in your struggle. In this sermon, Pastor Joshua Brown preaches from Ephesians 2 and Isaiah 49 that Jesus became human so that, joined to him, you share in his victory. If Christ is one with you, then your life is his life, and because Christ cannot fail, hope is undenia...

This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 48 and Acts 13 to show that the gospel is a proclamation that Christ has already won, and the only question left is whether you'll actually live like it.

What if your life isn't something you're building, but something you're discovering? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 45 to show that you are clay in the hands of a potter who already knows what you're becoming, and that the whole purpose of prayer isn't talking at God but learning to hear the story he's been writing in and through you all along. If your faith...

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you everything you've grown comfortable holding onto. This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Philippians 3 and Isaiah 44 to show that Christ's finished work invites a completely different way of living, and the only question left is what you'll do with what he's already done. If you've been sitting in Babylon because it's comfor...

What if the restlessness, anxiety, and emptiness you feel is a flame that's gone out? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks 1 Peter 2 to show that the Church is a holy priesthood called to tend the fire of God's presence together, and that the only cure for a life spent trying to ignite your own flame is returning to the warmth of the one that was never yours to produce in the first place...

What if the reason so many Christians feel lost, burned out, and without identity is not a personal problem but an ecclesiological one? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown makes a case for recovering a high view of the Church, showing that the gospel was always about US participating together in the expanding kingdom of God. If you've ever wondered whether church really matters, this message will c...

What if the home you've always longed for isn't a place at all? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 43 to show that when God promised to bring his exiled people home, he wasn't just talking about a land or a building; he was talking about the only place the soul ever truly rests, the kingdom of God.

What if the judgment of God was never the threat you were told it was? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 42 to show that God's judgment over his creation was declared in Genesis 1, and the verdict was "very good," which means his justice was never aimed at you; it was aimed at everything keeping you from that original design. If you've spent your life fearing a God wh...

What if the chaos, decline, and spiritual emptiness you see all around you in 2026 are not signs that God has forgotten us, but signs that he is about to do something new? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown opens a brand new series in Isaiah to show that God's people have always been called to read the signs of the times, and that the church's greatest witness is a community who can smell the...

What do you do when your theology stops working? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown opens the book of Job to show that suffering doesn't mean God has abandoned you or that you've done something wrong, it means you've been invited into a deeper, more honest encounter with a God who is far bigger than the comfortable clichés we've built around him. If you're in a season where the old...

It's July, but Pastor Joshua Brown is asking a question: are you still living Advent? This week at Dream Church, he unpacks what it means to be a people perpetually preparing for the coming of Christ, living like watchmen who can see the morning while it's still night, and why the answer to the anxiety, restlessness, and emptiness of our age isn't a better program or a more entertainin...

What do you do when God asks you to hand over the very thing he promised you? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Genesis 22 to show that the binding of Isaac was never really about sacrifice, it was about trust, and that the God who asks you to open your hands is the same God who already has a ram in the thicket. If you've been holding tightly to a promise while wondering if God can be tru...

Three men stood before a king, a furnace, and an impossible choice, and what they said next changed everything. This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Daniel 3 to show that the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was never really about the fire, it was about the kind of faith that says "even if" instead of "only if," and the God who shows up in the middle of the flames. If...

What if the story of Jonah was never really about the whale? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks one of the Bible's most beloved and misread stories to show that Jonah is not a tale about a fish, but about a God who refuses to let you drown in the chaos you ran into trying to escape his call. If you've ever felt like you've gone too far, waited too long, or disqualified yourself fro...

What if the conquest narratives in Joshua were never meant to be read as a divine mandate for violence, but as a call to the most countercultural thing a person can do today? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks one of the Bible's most difficult texts to show that the conquest was always pointing toward something deeper, the call to exclusive devotion, clearing out everything that competes w...

Most of us were taught the flood story was about God's anger and judgment, but what if we've been reading it backward? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown digs into Genesis 6-9 to show that the point was never the flood, it was the promise, and that the God revealed in this ancient story is not a God ready to destroy, but a God who grieves our brokenness and commits to his creation even knowing it will...

What if Genesis 1 was never meant to answer the questions we've been asking it? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown opens a brand new series by taking us back to the very beginning, showing that the creation story is not a science textbook but a worship text written for exiles, declaring that the world belongs to God, not to chaos. And the whole point of creation, it turns out, is not your productivity...

In a world pulling your attention in a thousand directions, what happens when Jesus stops feeling extraordinary and just becomes common? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks what it really means to behold Christ, showing that eternal life is not just about how long you live but the quality and depth of life you carry right now. If you've drifted from that place of steadfast hope, this messag...

Most of us were taught that following Jesus was the finish line, but what if it was only the starting line? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks sanctification, the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit that takes the reality of the gospel and works it into every corner of your everyday life, transforming you not into something foreign, but into the truest version of who you were always made to be. If...

What do you do when obedience leads you straight into an impossible situation? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Exodus 14 to show that prophecy isn't just foretelling the future, it's seeing as God sees, even when all you can see is the sea in front of you and the enemy behind you. If you've ever found yourself stuck between two impossible things, this message is your invitation...

Is healing just for people with enough faith, or did the church get something wrong along the way? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown takes us back to the earliest centuries of the church to recover a richer, more honest vision of healing, one rooted not in formulas or faith levels, but in the Incarnation itself and the Spirit as a foretaste of the new creation. Whether you've seen miracles or pra...