Briarwood Church

God never designed faith to be a solo sport. In the final week of Align, Pastor Jamisen Hancock uses Ecclesiastes 4 and Hebrews 10 to show that alignment with God requires alignment with God’s people. You are stronger than you think — but weaker than you realize when you’re alone.

Inspiration happens in moments, but transformation happens in rhythms. In Week 3 of the Align series, Pastor Jamisen Hancock uses Acts 2 and John 15 to challenge us to stop chasing spiritual mountaintop moments and start building daily patterns that keep us connected to God. What we do daily determines what we experience spiritually.

You can be moving forward and still be misaligned. In Week 2 of Align, Pastor Jamisen Hancock uses Matthew 6 and Isaiah 58 to show that spiritual strength flows from intentional priorities — not busyness. Put God first and everything else fits the way it was meant to.

You don’t need a new life — you need a new perspective. In Week 1 of Align, Pastor Jamisen Hancock opens in Isaiah 43 and challenges us to stop chasing what’s next and start seeing what God is already doing right where we are. See it, release it, declare it.

What if the most important question you could ask isn’t whether God exists — but whether the Bible is true? On the last Sunday of 2025, Pastor Will Howell brings a message built around a simple logical structure: if the Bible is true, then we should do what it says. Drawing from 2 Timothy 3, Luke 3, James 1, and Matthew 22, he walks through historical, archaeological, and manuscript evidence for Scripture’s reliability — from King Jehu’s obelisk to the deaths of the disciples — and lands on what that evidence demands: not just agreement, but full submission to God’s Word. The Bible is not just a book to examine — it’s a mirror that reveals your reality and demands a response. And the response it demands is this: love God with everything you have, and love those around you as yourself.

Every Christmas we shop, wrap, and stress over gifts that break, fade, or end up in a garage sale. But there is one gift that never fades, never breaks, and never stops giving. On the last Sunday before Christmas 2025, Pastor Jamisen Hancock walks through Isaiah 9:1–7 — written 700 years before Christ — to show four truths about the greatest gift ever given: it came to a dark world, it was given out of extraordinary love, it meets our deepest need (not finances or circumstances, but a Savior who forgives sin), and it demands a response. A gift unopened is still a gift unreceived. Jesus is standing at the door and knocking. The question this Christmas isn’t whether the gift exists — it’s whether you’ll open it.

The journey to Jesus is rarely a straight line — detours, delays, and dead ends have a way of making us ask, “Are we there yet?” In this closing message from Briarwood’s Family Christmas Program, the wise men’s winding road becomes a mirror for our own. A delay is not a denial, a detour is not a disaster, and no mile is wasted when Jesus is the destination.

Christmas is not about people finding God — it is about God breaking in to find us. In this Christmas message, Pastor Jamisen Hancock takes us to Luke 2 and the story of the shepherds to show us four truths about how God still breaks in today: he breaks into ordinary places, he uses unexpected people, he brings unstoppable hope, and he breaks into our lives when we open our hearts to him. The shepherds were not searching, praying, or prepared — they were simply doing their jobs in the dark. But heaven broke in anyway. That is the message of Christmas. Not a feeling, not a tradition, not nostalgia — but an invasion of hope. The same God who broke into Bethlehem is still breaking into fields of worry, loneliness, and brokenness today.