Episodes

  • Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "The Great Equalizer"

    Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "The Great Equalizer"
    Oct 14 2024

    October 13, 2024

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    Galatians 3:26-29

    We are a New Creation

    2 Corinthians 5:17-18

    Philemon 4-7

    Philemon 10-14

    We have a Alternative Way to Act

    Romans 8:28-29

    Matthew 5:13-15

    Philemon 20-25

    Philippians 2:5-8

    5 Ways to be Like Christ in this World

    Matthew 28:18-20

    (NASB 2020)
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    36 mins
  • Western Regional Gathering: Phillipine Global Update

    Western Regional Gathering: Phillipine Global Update
    Oct 7 2024

    October 6, 2024

    Scott Soden, Global Partners Coordinator, Brethren Church National Office Staff

    Pastor Gary Castro, Philippine Brethren Church
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    5 mins
  • Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "Give Thanks"

    Being the Church: The Book of Philemon: "Give Thanks"
    Sep 30 2024

    September 30, 2024

    Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant

    Associate Pastor Louise Waller

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    Philemon 1: 1-7

    (NKJV)
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    38 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Serving"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Serving"
    Sep 23 2024

    September 22, 2024

    Associate Pastor Eric Burch

    We serve Christ by Serving People

    Colossians 4:7-8

    Romans 1:1

    1 Timothy 1:1-2

    Colossians 4:9-13

    Serving Christ by Serving People Takes Many Forms

    1 Peter 3:15

    Colossians 4:14-15 (NET)

    Romans 12:9-13

    Colossians 4:16-18

    1 Peter 4:10-11

    (NASB)
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    33 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Prayer"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Prayer"
    Sep 16 2024

    September 15, 2024

    Associate Pastor Justin Brunenkant

    (There were intermittent audio issues with this recording. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

    Colossians 4:1-6

    Daniel 6:10

    Luke 18:1-8

    Matthew 7:11

    (NKJV)
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    43 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Healthy Relationships"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Healthy Relationships"
    Sep 9 2024

    September 8, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    “Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can't have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.” -Henry Cloud SUBMIT and LOVE Colossians 3:18-19 Colossians 2:14-15 "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline." -G.K. Chesterton “Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.” -Wm. Paul Young OBEY and RESPECT Colossians 3:20-21 "Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be." -David Blye "The soul is healed by being with children". -Fyodor Dostoevsky LISTEN and SERVE Colossians 3:22-25 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ReplyForward

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    44 mins
  • This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love"

    This is Church: "How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love"
    Sep 2 2024

    September 1, 2024

    Associate Pastor Louise Waller

    (Technical difficulties at the beginning caused low audio.)

    Colossians 3:12-17

    Unity and Love are REQUIRED

    No worship without loving community

    John 13:34-35

    (Song: They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love)

    No New Life in Christ without loving community

    ‘In the Name of Christ’

    Loving community is The Glory of God

    Psalm 133

    They are Worth it

    "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one of other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another; all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization itself – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses." C.S. Lewis

    (NIV)
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    32 mins
  • This Is Church: "How God Builds His Church: New Life"

    This Is Church: "How God Builds His Church: New Life"
    Aug 26 2024

    August 25, 2024

    Lead Pastor Dr. Dan Acker

    Colossians 2:14-15 “Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax — at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God’s wrath? Look at the cross.” -DA Carson “Learn to know Christ and Him crucified. Learn to sing to Him, and say, ‘Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am Your sin. You have taken upon Yourself what is mine and given me what is Yours. You have become what You were not so that I might become what I was not.’” -Martin Luther Galatians 6:14 1 Corinthians 1:18 "Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close." -Bill Hybells "The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it – to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible." -Chuck Colson KEEP LOOKING UP Colossians 3:1 "Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God." -Henri Nouwen "Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you." -Charles Spurgeon Psalm 71: 1-3 (The Message Paraphrase) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP Colossians 3:2-11 "If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week." -Timothy Keller Philippians 3:12-16 (NET) ReplyForward

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    32 mins