Transitions

Change is an inevitable part of life and in most circumstances it is good. This is true for us spiritually as individuals. The Holy Spirit is about taking us from where we are to developing our hearts and growing us more in the image of Christ. This is also true of churches. As a church with Christ as the Head, we must be willing to adjust in order to follow God by faith wherever He leads us.

We’ve all noticed that God is bringing more people to The Brook. While we don’t know how long the significant increases will continue to occur (that’s entirely up to the Lord), it is important for us to be willing to adjust and to cooperate with God in this development. This is what faith means for us right now.

Well Done!

The dictionary defines a steward as “a person charged with the responsibility of managing another person’s assets that have been entrusted to his or her care."

Two weeks ago we set a new attendance high at The Brook for a non-Easter Sunday. We had 467 total in attendance that day… and with 32 cars parked in non-parking spaces (outside the parking lot), we had only 5 spaces available in the 2nd worship hour.

A Journey to Wholeness: Reflections for the New Year

The beginning of the year is always a great time to look personally at the journey that we've walked and the places we’ve come from. It’s a time to understand again how good God is to us, and how even the difficult times were used by Him. 

My journey in ministry and in starting The Brook certainly falls into that category. Three years after starting our church, there was great difficulty personally and there were challenges in the church. The brokenness within and the overwhelming nature of my life at the time motivated me to get help and see a counselor— something all of us should do when needed.

Celebrating 2013!

If you’ve been here long you’ve heard it a hundred times. Our church vision is Real People, Finding Real Hope, in the Real World. To me this statement never gets old because year after year we realize it in even deeper ways.

My heart is full as I ponder the year we’ve had and think about God’s amazing work over the past 12 months. Our home for hope has experienced quite an amazing 2013! God has been so good! Here are just a few highlights:

Is It Possible?

Life tends to lead us into routines. Because of the busyness of our world, the natural physical and emotional response is to find stability through predictability. The way we do that is through routine patterns of everyday living. We try to get up from bed, go to work, get the kids off to school, get home from work, eat dinner, get to bed, etc.— all at established times, in a certain order, and according to a certain rhythm. Even spiritually we seek to practice certain spiritual disciplines with pattern and predictability (daily times in prayer and Bible reading, attending worship, serving, etc.). This predictability helps us feel more in control. Or said another way, predictability helps us feel less out of control.