Browns Bridge Church

If we re-center our faith around the arrival of a King rather than a ticket to heaven, we will discover why his arrival and his kingdom is good news for all people.

Just as the apostle Paul wrote to the Jesus followers in Ephesus, you were made for something more than yourself. You are God’s workmanship, and you’ve got something to offer God’s Kingdom.

As we wrap up this year, we wanted to revisit a message from a few months ago that is important to the life of Browns Bridge. It’s amazing what a simple invitation can do. It can lead to extraordinary things. This week we’ll look at an invitation that changed someone’s life in the first century and has the power to change someone’s life today as well.

The lineage of Jesus is full of people with stories that would make anyone blush, including the likes of King David and Lot’s daughters. But in spite of jaw-dropping choices people made, God’s purposes marched forward.

Rahab is one of a few people in the lineage of Jesus that wasn’t Jewish — she was a Canaanite. Not to mention, she was a prostitute. But neither of those things kept her from being used by God in an incredible way.

The story of Judah and Tamar is probably not one we would have mentioned if we were the ones telling the back story of Jesus’s ancestors. However, many times God’s story highlights the unlikely and the undeserving.

We naturally talk to people about things we enjoy, making invitations easy. But when faith feels like a struggle, we’re less likely to invite others into it. So how do we keep the joy in faith so that we extend invitations to those who need them?

The invitation to follow Jesus ultimately leads to inviting others to follow him as well. But how do we make a good invitation? What makes an invitation good? This message looks at one thing that should precede our invitations to others.

It’s amazing what a simple invitation can do. It can lead to extraordinary things. This week we’ll look at an invitation that changed someone’s life in the first century and has the power to change someone’s life today as well.

While we can't predict when miracles happen, there is a posture we can take that increases the chances of God doing a supernatural work within us.

Our circumstances don’t define how God feels about us. So how do we navigate those circumstances when we don’t get the miracle?

Miracles are at God’s discretion to further God’s purposes.

The miracle of the universe is the foundation of our faith in God, but a different miracle is the foundation of our faith in Jesus.

Serving people with different lived experiences is one of the primary things God uses to fine-tune our worldview.

We live in a world where we believe we can handle anything—until we can’t. And it’s often in those moments we begin to wonder: "Who can I truly depend on? Who will walk with me through life? Am I alone?" The answers to those questions are the reason we believe Jesus is worth following.

Life is filled with unexpected moments that surprise us, evoke fear, and lead us to wonder, Is God worth following?

Have you ever heard someone say, “Follow Jesus and everything will be great.” It sounds good, but it’s not exactly true. This week we’ll look at how God leads us to what we need, even though it may not look like it to begin with.

Since 2007, our Be Rich campaign has been making the world an even better place. After all, devotion to God is best demonstrated and authenticated through love for others.

We must take responsibility for the me nobody can see.

Our choices today will leave our loved ones with one of two things in the future: a burden or a blessing.

Sometimes we have to go back to move forward.

Your irresponsibility will eventually become somebody else's responsibility.

We are far more likely to develop meaningful faith when people of faith surround us.

Have you seen anyone lately who seems to have it better than you? A better job, car, or life? It can be easy to size up our lives by what we see in somebody else’s, but it’s a lose/lose game every time. In this message, we look at the remedy for the comparison game.