Branches HB Podcast

In this teaching, Andrew Schey explores the complex beauty of what God has been doing throughout history, even to the point of using Paul in a prison cell for his ultimate good. Though we often don't know what God is doing amid our circumstances, we can trust him with freedom and confidence that he's working everything out according to his perfect purpose.

This week, Brian Sumner walks us through Ephesians 2:11-22 and the depth of the peace Jesus brings to us. As Christians from all over the social, political, ethnic, and economic spectrum, we must preserve our unity in Christ by adopting a posture of humility and love toward one another, regardless of the ideas, positions, and platforms that seek to separate us.

In this message, Brock Snook unpacks what it means to be spiritually dead and how to step into the resurrected life God offers us by grace through his son Jesus.

In this teaching, Andrew Schey explains how God provides us with a map, pointing us toward our destination, which instills us with hope and energy along the journey. By allowing the Holy Spirit to enlighten our hearts, we can experience our setbacks and successes in a whole new way and truly live into our role as God's inheritance.

As we step into this new series through the book of Ephesians, we are reminded just how deserving God is of our praise. He has gifted us with every spiritual blessing simply out of his sheer love for us. It's up to us to receive it.

In the final message of our Churchianity series, Andrew Schey explains that the kingdom is not something we're waiting for, but rather something we are all caught up in right here and now. God's kingdom infuses the seemingly inconsequential and mundane aspects of our lives with eternal importance, such that the very small things can have an outsized impact on forever. At every moment, we have the opportunity to do something that counts. The kingdom of God is near. Can you see it?

Often when we peel back the surface layer of spirituality, we find the same love of money, power, and approval that permeates our world. So, as Andrew Schey asks, how do we keep the heart of Jesus' teachings primary in our lives? By devoting ourselves to authentic discipleship of the one true God, feeding on the life of Jesus as our daily bread.

This past Sunday, Chris and Adessa Shaddix shared an update on their family and how we can support them over the next several months, embodying the family of God described in Andrew Schey's teaching. God removes all distinctions and vastly different people are made family, with our stories and needs intertwining as we come to view each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.

We can only be a community as the Bible describes if we as a people are engaging in true fellowship. As we heard from Andrew Schey, that means showing up, being with each other, and contributing in meaningful ways as the body of Christ.