Dream Church with Joshua Brown

If we believe we are loved and liked by the Father, we must live in the faithfulness of his care. We miss out on the life we were designed for when we live believing he might let us down. The world is longing for a people who love with the measure they believe they've been loved.

A stained glass work of art comprises many broken pieces of glass. But, when put in the hands of master artists, these broken pieces are exactly what are needed for a beautiful work of art. What if you can't mess up the call of God for you? What if even your stumbling is being used for a beautiful picture of his faithfulness? Your purpose isn't contingent on you; your purpose is solely con...

A "new" wineskin can receive fresh wine and stretch and mature with it. An "old" wineskin will break when new wine is poured into it and starts stretching and maturing. Why? Because it lacks the trust that believes the stretching is for its good. When the Lord starts to give a fresh revelation of who he is, and who we are, it will reveal if we carry the trust to allow that reve...

Being chosen often comes with the assumption of a rejection of others. However, the way God chooses speaks to his intentionality. You were specifically chosen to become the fullness of God's image within your unique person. If we struggle to understand this and the full acceptance of the Father, we will not be able to allow our inner kingdom to be built into what the King desires it to become.

The kingdom of God doesn't start in a ministry setting or in the world around us; the kingdom of God starts within us. Within us is a vast kingdom that God, the king, longs to transform into the full image of his goodness. The problem is, to do so, he must first face—with us—the dark alleyways that we've avoided for a long time. We are the beloved of the Father. If we can grasp our beloved...

Revival is a choice. We are called to choose what we know to be true before we feel it or experience it. If you wait for momentum or mass adoption, you'll never encounter the fullness of what you can access. The first step into any experience with God is a choice.

Once we establish that we are what Christ has made us and that our futures are what he has made them, we can walk with confidence that all things are, in fact, possible for us.

Luke opens his gospel with his purpose and then his reasoning. In summary, Luke is writing to convince us of what we have heard (the Gospel), and he begins his convincing argument by introducing us to the idea that nothing is impossible for God. What does it look like for us, as people of God, to move from a life of fear-induced impossibility to faith-induced possibility?

Jeremiah was called to prophesy to a people who had lost their way. His message was one of returning to their first love. You can be doing all the right things, but if you aren't becoming the image you were born from/for, you'll never truly be fulfilled. Our culture is crying out for a true expression of God's goodness.

If you don’t know why you are living your life, you’ll never fully experience what your life was intended to produce.

Sheep are herd animals. They are natural followers. They will only follow a familiar voice (shepherd). Jesus uses this common understanding to teach the religious leaders about God's prophetic fulfillment in the Son. We must decide what voice is familiar and what is that of a stranger.

You'll only see Jesus clearly when you become blind to what kept you from seeing Jesus before. In John 9, a man born blind is healed, and his sight is restored by Jesus. The religious leaders are furious because Jesus does this on the Sabbath. Religion will always be offended by those who have been given sight to see things for what they really are, but once you leave that system of karma, an...

The book of Job is not blunt history, but it does communicate a historical truth. What is this truth and why does it matter to us, today?

What did Christ accomplish for us and how do we move forward into resurrection life? Find out in this Easter message from Joshua Brown.

It isn't enough to ask the Lord to move where we are; for the Lord to move as he desires, we must leave what enslaved us behind and venture to a place where we can rest. Where we are going is a land cultivated by the Lord himself, not our best effort.

If rest and vision go hand in hand, how do you get to proper rest and vision when you aren't there yet? Perseverance. Perseverance is continuing in what you know to be right even though you don't see the expected results. Perseverance is the trust that you will see what the Lord spoke to you as long as you remain rooted in faith.

In Genesis 26, Isaac faces famine with his family. The Lord specifically tells him not to go to Egypt and settle in a place the Lord will show him. Why? And what is this saying to us, today?

In John 2, we see the story of Jesus turning the water for purification into wine and cleansing the temple (which the other gospel accounts put at the end of Jesus' ministry). Why does the author place these together, and what is this saying to us today? Find out in this message.

In Numbers 21, we see the people grow impatient with God and, as a result, are bitten by fiery, poisonous snakes that kill them. However, the Lord offers salvation from their own destruction: taking the very thing that was killing them and lifting it up among the people so that as they see it, they are saved. Likewise, Christ becomes the son of humans so that as he is lifted up, we are set free fr...

Matthew Brown goes deep into Genesis 1.

Jesus, in John 1, tells Nathanael that he has become the place where movement between earth and heaven (God's space) occurs. The Incarnation isn't just a revelation of who we are but a revelation of the Creation redeemed with us.

When we go through disappointment, it creates a way of seeing the world. When that happens, we miss the beauty around us because of the brokenness within us. Jesus calls us to give him the broken pieces and allow him to bring a healing that restores our sight.

Is everything falling apart or being reborn? Perspective on what lies ahead will determine how you live your life with God.

When we see ourselves as servants, we live to do what we are told to get spiritually "paid" when we're done. When we see ourselves as friends, we live for union. Jesus calls us now friends and has disclosed all things to us.