Podcasts - SouthBrook Christian Church

In Matthew 16.13-20, Jesus asks his disciples an important question about his identity. He wants to know who people think he is. He also wants to know who they think he is. For the people who know him best, what do they see in him that reveals his...

We look at World War Z to see what zombies have to do with following Jesus and we see what Jesus tells the church at Sardis, and the church at all times, everywhere:Wake UpIf you want real life, if you want life in Christ, if you want victory, if...

The Lone Ranger is about the mask. The twist is that Tonto wears a mask, too. And around here, there is a constant battle we face together: religious image managing mask-wearing. We know religious settings have a tendency to produce masks. The...

In that latest iteration of Superman, Clark Kent has to find a way to deal with the big questions of his, and our, life: Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose?In thinking about Superman, we think about a super woman in Scripture, Esther....

In Proverbs, wisdom comes in the form of: Ideas, Images and Information. Ideas are how we interpret our world, our selves. They are what is behind beliefs, but they are much more than belief and are not dependent upon belief. Ideas are ways of...

The writers of Proverbs frequently include the phrase: “My son." He is giving fatherly wisdom about life. He is trying to influence his children in right living, smart living, wise living, and godly living. There are a few truths about our...

The one principle described often in the Bible that is critical to being sensitive to the Spirit is a discipline that none of us likes or wants to hear. The discipline of “waiting on the Lord.” And, what God does in us while we wait is,...

An underlying theme in the Proverbs is that God made the world and made people to work a certain way. Wisdom involves living your life lined up with the way God made it to work. Folly means trying to live your own way. That's why the range of...

Our culture is long on excuses and short on personal responsibility. Put the blame on others, but don't blame yourself. Make excuses. Don't take personal responsibility.People make all kinds of excuses for doing as little as possible. And some...

Proverbs contains sobering warnings about good things done to extremes. We are an extreme culture. We always think more is better. We want more. We have different appetites. We have to recognize our areas of vulnerability. We all have different...

As we look at the Proverbs 31 woman, we see perfection. A woman above all women. Yet, we look at the Proverbs 31 woman and feel ashamed. We feel like who we are isn’t enough. We don’t measure up. We try to be the people the fake stories...

We have a tendency to see successful people only in their glamour moments and we fail to see all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes. A lot of people want to excel but they quit when they discover that there is so much work involved. But...

God occasionally leads us in dramatic fashion. God sometimes leads through circumstances. Sometimes He closes some doors and opens others. But God's immediate “no” can be a part of his ultimate “yes." There may be something else...

Anger itself is not sinful, it is a God-given emotion. Anger is a sign that something or someone has hurt us. Anger is what psychologists call a secondary emotion, meaning it is a by-product of something else; in the case of anger, it is the...

When we think about the word discipline, we think of a lot of things—self-discipline—developing good habits and training well. We may think of discipline as punishment—something that happens after we’ve already gone astray....