Lance Brown
Sermon: Asking the Wrong Questions
How does that scripture counter the “enemy thought” (lie) that sharing our faith is terrifying? Overall, the problem with most of these kinds of questions is very simple. They are all about us. Our comfort, our desire for status or power, our pain, our dissatisfaction, or even our desire to do what we want.
Sermon: Sowing Seeds, Growing Gardens; Joy
This is our last week in looking at how to get started in sharing your faith, sowing seeds into people’s lives that may someday bear fruit of Christ-likeness. From seeds to gardens! Remember Jesus sharing truth with the woman at the well in John 4. At the end of their conversation she “got it,” she…
Sermon: Sewing Seeds, Growing Gardens; Serving
We are to be engaged with lost people, seeking to lead them to the Lord for salvation. Caring for others, building relationships, acting with kindness, and making and keeping friends. Serving God and serving people begins with a right attitude about serving. All too often serving becomes about us.
Damaged
I was boating over the summer with some friends up at Lake Powell. The second or third day we were there, I hit a submerged rock at about 30 miles per hour. It bent the propeller severely, and the drive shaft a little bit as well. When we got back and I took the boat…
Sermon: Sowing Seeds, Growing Gardens; Friends
Jesus gave what we call the Great Commission to the all the disciples, collectively. Certainly, each of us bears responsibility to reach lost people and help them grow as disciples. In our western culture, I wonder how often we immediately think of reaching out to our friends as a solely individual endeavor.