Branch Church

If you want to see clearly in 2020 your must see people how God sees them. This message looks at our closest relationships and how we can practically love those closest to us.

The best thing you can do as a Christian is to commit to READ, STUDY and APPLY God's Word to your life. Why? Because the Bible has the power to influence and change your life for the better. Millions of men and women have changed history because God used the Bible to change them.

Why were the shepherds selected to witness God’s Glory and receives history’s greatest birth announcement? History tells us that shepherds were social outcasts, rough characters on the fringe of Jewish society. They were officially labeled “sinners” – a technical term for a class of despised people - yet they were chosen to see Jesus that silent, holy night. In this message we see that the shepherds represent the role, mission and invitation Jesus came from heaven to earth to do.

We live in a society that is obsessed with comfort. We can even begin to believe that God's aim for our earthly lives is comfort. This message looks at our culture's view of comfort (counterfeit comfort) verses God's desire for comfort (authentic comfort).

Many Christians continue to pursue God's forgiveness after salvation because they do not "feel" forgiven. But Jesus' sacrifice is enough! This message looks at "4 mistaken ways of thinking" that are common among those who struggle with God's complete forgiveness.

God has placed inside each of us a hunger for purpose and destiny. The hunger is there... the chase is constant... but it seems just outside of our reach. God shares in His Word that the source of that purpose is found in Jesus. We can try to pursue anything this world has to offer but it will always fall short when it's not founded in Jesus.

This message chases the carrot of approval. Becoming obsessed with what people think about you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks about you.

Our culture's understanding of "being rich" is TO HAVE MORE. The line or the carrot always seems to be a little bit more ahead. There is one simple key if you want to know how to be rich, and it's all about perspective.

The phrase "fear not" is the most repeated command found in the Bible. And if we're honest - fear captures all of us. This message looks to encourage us to be shaped by FAITH instead of FEAR.

God embedded us with emotions to be a gauge not a guide. God never created emotions to lead us. Our feelings should not lead our faith - our faith should lead our emotions towards truth. In this message, we'll see that our emotions are not always trustworthy. There are times when we need to speak truth into our emotions.