The Branch Church

This July, we’ll be hearing from some of our staff ministers at The Branch. Hunter Wheatcraft brings us a message on what the Lord has been stirring in his heart: “He has called me friend.”

This weekend, we wrap up our journey through the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:13-27. Jesus paints four pictures to say the same thing. What is it?

“Judge not lest you be judged....” It’s ironic that of all the things Jesus said which we make a judgment too quickly about when it comes to what it means – are His words about judging. This weekend, we take a look at this often quoted (but often taken out of context) phrase Jesus used.

This weekend, Josh Brake guides us through Matthew 6:25-34 and Jesus’s reflections on worry. What we worry about can be revealing. Jesus knew the leverage worry can have on our quality of life and our capacity to live effectively as His disciples.

This weekend, Hunter Wheatcraft guides us through Matthew 6:25-34 and Jesus’s reflections on worry. What we worry about can be revealing. Jesus knew the leverage worry can have on our quality of life and our capacity to live effectively as His disciples.

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” This weekend we’ll take a look at Jesus’ challenging call for us to trust in God as Father and prioritization of His kingdom over our “thingdoms.” While money and material possessions can be excellent servants to the purposes of God, all too often they can wind up becoming terrible masters of our lives.

We have no record of Jesus teaching His disciples how to preach. We do have a record of Jesus teaching them (and us) how to pray. This weekend, in our series on the Sermon on the Mount, we’re walking through what’s known as “The Lord’s Prayer.” It’s something to be prayed and lived.

It’s Graduate Sunday at The Branch, and we’re starting our service by honoring our Graduating Class of 2022. This weekend in Matthew 6:1-18 this coming weekend. We’ll be talking about a desire some of us struggle with more than others – the desire to impress and be seen. It can get us into all sorts of trouble, as well as interfere with making a real difference in the things that matter.

“Turn the other cheek. Go the second mile. No one can serve two masters. Do to others what you would have them do to you.” These are sayings that float around American culture today. Not many people realize they are all from the Sermon on the Mount. This weekend we’ll see what may be the most challenging teaching Jesus did in the Sermon on the Mount. There may be no brighter light emanating from o...

What would it be like to see your heart in a jar? People who’ve had heart transplants have. This weekend we hear a story about that and what it has to do with the next part of our journey through the Sermon on the Mount.

“Blessed” is the first word in the Sermon on the Mount. This says so much about the heart of Jesus. We’re beginning our series in the SOTM this weekend with Matthew 5:1-16. Did you know it’s possible for pilots, particularly fighter pilots, to be flying upside down and not know it? We do it in life, too. Some of Jesus’s teachings seems upside down to us, and yet we might be the ones flying upside...

How in the world do you follow Easter? Jesus answered that. This weekend we read the end of the Gospel of Matthew. Before we back up and dive into the Sermon on the Mount next weekend, we’re first going to another mount found in Matthew 28:18-20.

Jesus was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead. The seal that was placed over the tomb was broken on that day. What does His resurrection mean for us today?

You can look at cost in terms of how expensive something is or how precious something is. This weekend we’ll be in what is likely the hardest part of the story of Jesus. The story of the cross. It’s expensive. And yet, it also tells you how precious you are to Jesus.

Can you think of being interrupted by something or someone that you didn’t see coming, yet you wound up incredibly blessed? Or challenged? Or both? This weekend, we’ll look at three very different people whose lives were interrupted by Jesus on the way to the cross in Matthew 27. Some interruptions can be life-changing.

So much of Jesus’ ministry was around a table in the context of a meal. This weekend we’ll be in Matthew 26, and His last meal with His disciples in the midst of the most difficult week of His life. It’s at this table that Jesus, Himself, interprets what His death on the cross will mean for everyone.

It’s rare to see the Lord “fighting mad.” But it’s just as important to understand what He’s fighting for. There are moments in our lives when the Lord “disturbs the peace” in order to make it possible for us or others to experience true, substantial peace. This weekend, in Matthew 21:1-17, we’ll look at a story that exemplifies this. There are layers to this story and multiple points of intersect...

Have you ever had that awkward silence with someone you love after an intense disagreement? Didn’t know how to move forward? That could be what happened with Jesus and His disciples in Matthew 17 along with two of the strangest stories in all the gospels.

This weekend in Matthew, we see Jesus set the foundation for His church. Josh Brake brings us the word from Matthew 16:13-28.

One of Chris’s favorite stories in all of Matthew is finally here! It’s the story of Jesus walking on water — and Peter, for that matter. There are layers to this story as we learn what it means to look FOR Jesus in rough water and high winds. Then to look TO Him.

This weekend, in Matthew Chapter 12, we see Jesus saying over and over again that, “something greater is here….” Chris also talks about the one “unforgivable” sin and the question a lot of folks ask, “Have I already done it?”

It’s possible to give someone a gift that they find offensive. Jesus is the greatest gift of all – and sometimes the gift can be offensive to us. Why does that matter? What does it have to do with following Jesus?

This weekend, Chris is back to bring us a word out of Matthew 9:35-10:39 with Jesus teaching his disciples about authority, risk, discomfort, and sacrifice.

This weekend we come to the calling of Matthew, the titular author himself. Josh Brake is bringing this message to the Vista Ridge campus this weekend.

This weekend we come to the calling of Matthew, the titular author himself. Hunter Wheatcraft brings the word from Matthew 9:9-13 to the Farmers Branch campus.