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We visit The Place of Forsyth community garden which provides fruits and vegetables to their food pantry. 

 

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Welcome to the new and improved Browns Bridge Podcast! This is the best place to find Sunday messages you missed, as well as highlighting stories to keep you updated in the life of our Church.

At the heart of the Christian faith is this idea: in Jesus, God became one of us and dwelt among us. When it comes to those around us who are hurting and in need, the God who dwelt among us calls his followers to be hands on.

Happy couples decide they owe each other everything but are owed nothing in return. But that requires effort. Every married person makes a choice every day. That choice feels more like a reaction, so most people don’t think they have a choice at all. But they do. Happy couples make the happy choice.

As long as you think your spouse owes you, your marriage will be all about keeping score. That destroys intimacy. It destroys love. But what are we supposed to do about our hopes, dreams, and desires?

We all enter into marriage with hopes, dreams, and desires. They create expectations. But when you put those expectations onto your spouse, it turns your marriage into a debt/debtor relationship. Your relationship becomes marked by the belief that your spouse owes you something. So, how do you keep your hopes, dreams, and desires from becoming expectations?

A great marriage doesn’t happen by accident. It requires care and regular maintenance. But sometimes we don’t want to make the effort. As long as it’s not broken, do we really need to talk about it?

When our hope is in something that can die or disappear we'll always have fear.  Because of all that there is to lose fear is ever present and if we aren't careful we can end up living a fearful life, but there is a way forward.  There is a way to live a fear less life and it's all dependent on where we put our hope.

The uncertainty of what’s next gives us plenty of room for anxiety to take root. After all, we should be afraid of what we can’t control, right? But Paul tells us we have another option—one that replaces our fear with a “peace beyond understanding.”

We may not have to deal with lions, tigers, and bears (oh my).  But let's face it. It's scary out there.  So what if there was a better way to face our fears?  What if we could respond in a way that wouldn't hold us back?  What if we could avoid being scared to death?