Dream Church with Joshua Brown

In "Calling Things Up From The Dead," Joshua preaches from 1 Samuel 28:3-25 and Psalm 130, recovering Halloween as All Hallows' (meaning souls') Eve, the vigil before a three-day church festival to remember the saints. Saul, deaf to the Lord after a long pattern of grasping control, turns to the medium at Endor to call Samuel up from the grave, and the sermon asks where we do the same, returning to dead identities, voices, and comforts for guidance instead of hearing God for ourselves. The answer is not holy avoidance but holy awareness: because Christ has overcome death, the church can mock skeletons and ghosts rather than fear them, and remember the faithful departed as part of a story larger than our own. Let the dead things sleep, the sermon urges, and live forward in Christ, who is Resurrection and Life.

In "Asleep in the Storm," Pastor Joshua preaches Luke 8:22-25 alongside the witness of Paul Schneider, the German pastor who preached this same text weeks before his arrest and martyrdom in a Nazi camp, to show that the church has always faced the question of what to do when the storm comes and Christ seems asleep. The sermon turns on the opening line, "He got into a boat with his disciples," insisting that the presence of Jesus is what determines whether the boat is truly in danger, and that the storm's purpose is not to sink us but to reveal the character and trustworthiness of Christ. Jesus' question, "Where is your faith?", is read not as condemnation but as conviction: he questioned the disciples' fear, not their cry for help, and calls us to awaken Christ within us out of confidence, not panic. From believing God is good to knowing God is good, this is a word for anyone who feels sent into the deep with Jesus asleep in the stern.

This week Pastor Joshua preaches "The Illogical Kingdom of God" from Luke 5:1-11. We tend to live by a logic built on fear, hoarding what little we have because we are convinced there will never be enough, but Jesus shatters that logic when he sends tired fishermen into the deep at the worst possible hour and fills their nets until they break. If you are afraid, tired, or running on empty, this message invites you to look into the eyes of the One who goes with you into the place you fear and discover what he can do with what little you are willing to give him.

Incarnational Gospel: the good news that God did not just visit humanity; he joined himself to it forever, so you are never alone in your struggle. In this sermon, Pastor Joshua Brown preaches from Ephesians 2 and Isaiah 49 that Jesus became human so that, joined to him, you share in his victory. If Christ is one with you, then your life is his life, and because Christ cannot fail, hope is undeniable.

This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 48 and Acts 13 to show that the gospel is a proclamation that Christ has already won, and the only question left is whether you'll actually live like it.

What if your life isn't something you're building, but something you're discovering? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 45 to show that you are clay in the hands of a potter who already knows what you're becoming, and that the whole purpose of prayer isn't talking at God but learning to hear the story he's been writing in and through you all along. If your faith has grown routine or your prayers have gone quiet, this message invites you back to the most important practice of your life.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you everything you've grown comfortable holding onto. This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Philippians 3 and Isaiah 44 to show that Christ's finished work invites a completely different way of living, and the only question left is what you'll do with what he's already done. If you've been sitting in Babylon because it's comfortable, this message is calling you back.

What if the restlessness, anxiety, and emptiness you feel is a flame that's gone out? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks 1 Peter 2 to show that the Church is a holy priesthood called to tend the fire of God's presence together, and that the only cure for a life spent trying to ignite your own flame is returning to the warmth of the one that was never yours to produce in the first place.

What if the reason so many Christians feel lost, burned out, and without identity is not a personal problem but an ecclesiological one? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown makes a case for recovering a high view of the Church, showing that the gospel was always about US participating together in the expanding kingdom of God. If you've ever wondered whether church really matters, this message will change the way you see it.

What if the home you've always longed for isn't a place at all? This week, Pastor Joshua Brown unpacks Isaiah 43 to show that when God promised to bring his exiled people home, he wasn't just talking about a land or a building; he was talking about the only place the soul ever truly rests, the kingdom of God.