Dream Church with Joshua Brown

In Romans 8, Paul teaches us that hope is not seen. Yet we were saved "in hope," which means we were saved into anticipation for what we do not see. How can we, as people of God, live with patient endurance for what we do not see clearly (yet)? Find out in this week's message from Joshua Brown.

What does it mean that John's gospel calls Jesus the Logos (Word)? If Jesus is God's divine reasoning—the why behind all of creation—then the Incarnation means a lot more than we've ever imagined.

Wisdom is the framework for Scripture. According to John's gospel, scripture is filled with wise truth, which is Christ himself. Therefore, to receive wisdom is to accept the very person of Christ. Our culture has devalued instruction and wisdom, but we are being called to take it up again as essential.

Letting go is challenging but beautiful. It makes room for what we can become.

How can God be all-powerful and ultimately understand everything we feel and walk through? In other words, how can God weep with us over a loss when he has the power to prevent the loss from happening in the first place? In this message, Joshua Brown breaks down how both characteristics are true of God and how we must submit our view of time to a revelation of God's timelessness.

We live in the dichotomy of free grace and a call to lay down everything and follow Jesus. What does this mean, and how do we effectively live in the space in between? Find out in this week's message.

Your ability to persevere is connected to your belief in who you are to Him. When deeply rooted in the truth of who you are and who He is, you can thrive through the "night."

The final chapter of Isaiah begins with a question: What house are you building the Lord, and what is his resting place? In this message, Joshua Brown asks us this question and frames it within the vision of Proverbs 31:10-31.

We've heard our entire lives that we need to follow Jesus. We didn't understand that Jesus was leading us somewhere that is so counter to where we "think" he's leading us that it requires reformation on the level of thinking (or seeing) to follow him somewhere we didn't have the theology to go. The Jesus Way involves a yoke of teaching that is easy and light. This message explores where Jesus calls us and how we follow him there.

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 contingent on his faithfulness.

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 revelation to mature IN us, or if we are so stuck on what is comfortable that it will break us and waste the wine. Stretching is a blessing.

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 identity, we'll effortlessly see "Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven." We are a kingdom work before we ever do a kingdom work.

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.