Briarwood Church

We all carry relational clutter, bitterness, unresolved conflict, old wounds, and unforgiveness that silently weigh us down and keep us from walking freely with Jesus. In Week 3 of RESET, Pastor Jamisen Hancock uses Colossians 3:12–15 to walk us through four steps to a relational reset: putting on a new heart shaped by who Christ says we are, releasing what we've been carrying through forgiveness, humbling ourselves for reconciliation like Jacob before Esau, and letting the peace of Christ have the final word in our hearts. Drawing from the stories of David and Saul and Jacob and Esau, this message closes with three questions for the week: Who do I need to forgive? Who do I need to pursue? And what does Jesus need to reset in my heart?

Life doesn't slow down on its own — and if we're not careful, we'll rush right back into the same cluttered schedules that wore us out before. In Week 2 of RESET, Pastor Jamisen Hancock uses the story of Mary and Martha to show us that you can be busy doing things for Jesus and still miss being with Jesus. Through four powerful choices — presence over performance, peace over pressure, calling over clutter, and intimacy over activity — this message challenges us to stop giving God our leftovers and start building a daily rhythm that makes room for him. Because nobody finds time for God. You build a rhythm with God.

We all carry more than we need, not just in our closets and calendars, but in our hearts. In this first week of RESET, Pastor Jamisen Hancock walks us through the story of the Rich Young Ruler to show us how even good things can become distractions that divide our focus from Jesus. Using Hebrews 12:1–2 as the anchor for the series, this message challenges us to Recognize what is distracting us, Release what is competing with Jesus, Replace distraction with devotion, and Resolve to seek him first. If life feels cluttered and Jesus has slowly drifted from the center — this is where the reset begins.

Pastor Jamisen is back after camp week, and he brings a message that hits right where a lot of us live. Using Jeremiah 29 — the full chapter, not just the verse on your coffee mug — he unpacks what God was actually saying to Israel while they were stuck in Babylon for 70 years: don't press pause on your life just because you're in a season you didn't choose. Through four practical challenges — build, bless, trust, and seek while you wait — Pastor Jamisen reminds us that our waiting seasons aren't wasted seasons. God is doing some of His deepest work in us right in the middle of the delay.

Using the illustration of training a horse over many years, pastor Brandon Booker delivers a three-point sermon: God as Creator (1) understands your life is a process, (2) sees a masterpiece where others see a mess, and (3) has already determined your value — not you. Anchored in Colossians 1 and the story of the sinful woman in Luke 7, the message calls listeners to stop defining their own worth and trust that the cross already settled it.

Drawing from 2 Timothy 1, pastor Ben Graves unpacks the obscure but powerful example of Onesiphorus — a normal, non-platform man who tracked

 down the imprisoned Paul and refreshed him when everyone else walked away. Through five points (stay, don't be ashamed, pursue, be consistent,  

 make eternal impact), the sermon challenges the church to be intentional refreshers to broken, hurting, and overlooked people

God still speaks; the question is whether we have gotten quiet enough to hear Him. In the final week of Voices: Cut Through the Noise, Pastor Jamisen walks through 1 Samuel 3, where young Samuel hears God call his name and does not recognize the voice until Eli teaches him to answer, Speak, Lord, your servant is listening. God's voice is personal, it never contradicts His Word, and it leads by invitation, not intimidation. Turn the noise down, open the Word, lean into prayer, and make room to listen.

The voice your family hears the most will shape the future they live. On Father's Day, Pastor Jamisen honors his late father and turns to Deuteronomy 6 and to Nehemiah rebuilding the wall in Nehemiah 4, where a leader's voice gave God's people courage under pressure. Whatever voice you were given growing up, you get to decide the voice you become. Your family does not need a perfect parent, just a present one whose voice protects them, shapes who they become, and points them to God.

Guilt says I did something wrong; shame says I am something wrong. In Week 3 of Voices: Cut Through the Noise, Pastor Jamisen looks at two women in Scripture, one carrying hidden shame in the crowd in Luke 8 and one dragged into public shame in John 8, and shows that Jesus responds to both the same way. He interrupts our hiding, silences every accusing voice, and speaks the only word that matters over who we are. The only voice qualified to condemn you has chosen to forgive you.

Just because a voice is loud does not make it true. In Week 2 of Voices: Cut Through the Noise, Pastor Jamisen goes back to the garden in Genesis 3 and to Jesus in the wilderness in Matthew 4 to show that the enemy does not defeat us by force; he deceives us with lies, and he still uses the same old playbook. A lie has no power over you until you agree with it. Recognize the lie, replace it with God's truth, and repeat that truth until it becomes the loudest voice in your life.