We all experience it at some point in our lives, the pain of loss. But how we manage it is critical to our faithfulness to God. Discover the Kingdom keys to fully embracing your grief while receiving grace to keep growing through it, so God can get the glory out of it.
There’s Pain in the Plan: Inseparable
July 28, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
There will be traumas, tragedies, and excruciating transitions in our lives that God allows and authors — to get us to the places He’s pre-ordained and to make us into the people He’s pre-ordained. There’s pain in the plan, but because God has determined to stand with us there is no force in the heavenlies, in the cosmos, in the earth or beneath the earth that can stand against us. Our great call in this life is not to live trying to avoid pain but to remain inseparable from He who will not separate from us.
There’s Pain in the Plan: Learning to Live Kept Lives
July 21, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
The Lord is our keeper. He keeps us in distinct ways. He keeps some things from us. He keeps and protects us in the midst of some things. He keeps some things set aside and reserved for us. But we’re not naturally given to being kept. Too often we believe the lie we must keep or are capable of keeping ourselves. Being kept is the art of abiding in trust and dependence on the Lord God. We must learn to live kept lives.
There’s Pain In the Plan: He Said Forgive Them Completely
July 7, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
We tend to believe forgiveness is for the benefit of those who’ve offended us, but forgiveness is more about us than them. Forgiveness is the way out of victimhood. No matter what others do or have done to us our future remains unchanged, as long as we stay in God’s hands by forgiving them completely.
There’s Pain In the Plan: Living Beyond Betrayal
Pastor Kevin Brown
It’s impossible to live a full life in this broken world without loving and trusting people. But it’s just as impossible to live loving and trusting people in this broken world without being betrayed. We’ve been betrayed by family, by friends, by bosses, by co-workers and others. Betrayal is a part of the human experience. What’s less common, is returning to full and free lives after betrayal. There’s pain in the plan and one of the worst kinds of pain in this life is the pain of betrayal.
There’s Pain In the Plan: Kept for Future Plans
June 23, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
The words of Jeremiah and the words of Jesus seem to be in conflict. How can a good God, who plans to prosper us, not to harm us, to give us hope and a future also be the God who leaves us in a world so twisted it killed its Savior? Jesus, our High Priest knows the brokenness, depravity and violence of this world first-hand, yet he prays to the Father to keep us here and to keep us from the Evil one. As Jeremiah states, God has a plan. But as we’ve come to know first-hand — There’s Pain in the Plan.
There’s Pain In The Plan: Healing For Our Father Wounds
June 16, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Fatherhood has a unique role in creation. The role of the father is not better or more important than the role of the mother, but the role of the father is different and distinct from the role of the mother. Due to the fall of mankind, all of creation has suffered a father wound and all of creation is in need of healing for our father wounds.
Working Together For the Good
June 9, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
It’s true, the sovereign, radical loving God of creation causes all things to work together for the good. His plans and purposes for His creation will prevail. This doesn’t mean there won’t be afflictions, falls, temptations, traumas and tragedies along the way. It does mean, in spite of it all and in the face of it all, God is working it together for the good. In the end He prevails and in Him we prevail. He’s working it together for the good.
There's Pain in the Plan
June 2, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown
Pits are the traumas, tragedies, and excruciating transitions in our lives that God providentially allows or authors to get us to the people, places and plans He’s pre-ordained and to make us into the person He’s pre-ordained. Our direction and destiny often has much to do with not only what happens to us but how we rehearse and remember what’s happened. If we are going to fulfill the fruitfulness God has intended in and through our lives we are going to have to grow in our understanding of pain and suffering.
