Steve Brown Etc.

There's a special kind of suffering reserved for people who have screwed up bad enough to be rejected by communities who say they believe in forgiveness and restoration. It's a pain that brings perspective, but only after lament.

Join Garth Cross on Steve Brown, Etc. for a discussion of his book, Outside the Camp: A Former Pastor Looks at the Church from a Distance. Hear the laments of sin and shame, broken community, and people in pain. Then listen as God responds with his radical grace.

Garth Cross is the pen name of the man behind the consulting, writing, and training work done at OTCMinistries.com.

It's natural to avoid pain and suffering, but what if lowering our defenses actually opens us up to the supernatural? Would an intimate experience with God be worth giving up self-protection?

Join Dr. Daniel Bush on Steve Brown, Etc. as he talks with Steve and the crew about his new book, Undefended: Discovering God When Your Guard Is Down. The truth is that pain is coming whether we embrace it or not, so why not be vulnerable enough to meet God where it hurts?

Daniel Bush received his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen and has served in pastoral, teaching, and counseling ministries for over 15 years. He's also the coauthor of Embracing God as Father and Live in Liberty.

He was the father of the Reformation. She was a nun who dropped life in the convent like a bad habit. Together, they were a legendary couple with a revolutionary marriage.

Join Michelle DeRusha on Steve Brown, Etc. for a discussion of her new book, Katharina and Martin Luther: The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk. Breaking vows, taking vows, and the private lives of a pair of plucky protestants... don't miss it!

Michelle DeRusha writes about finding and keeping faith in the everyday at michellederusha.com, as well as for the Lincoln Journal Star, Prodigal Magazine and The High Calling. She's also the author of 50 Women Every Christian Should Know.

Jesus is not a life coach, a movement leader, a cultural visionary, or a blessing dispenser, but you might not know that by listening to many Christians talk about their faith. Are you sure you're following the right Jesus?

Join Key Life author Matt Johnson on Steve Brown, Etc. as he talks about his new book, Getting Jesus Wrong: Giving Up Spiritual Vitamins and Checklist Christianity. Matt shares his personal encounters with a string of false saviors and shows us what it looks like to get Jesus right.

Matt Johnson is a husband, father to two little girls, and is an armchair student of theology living in Seattle. He's also a freelance writer and editor. Until recently, Matt spent seven years as an associate volunteer pastor in counseling and recovery ministry. Many moons ago he forwent a proper education and traveled the country playing drums in bands you've never heard of.

Different, but not divided. That's the idea behind two Central Florida churches—one African-American and one white—coming together to celebrate the renewing and reconciling power of the gospel.

Join pastors Jerry Parries and Kevin Labby on Steve Brown, Etc. as they talk with Steve about forming a friendship, swapping pulpits, and leading their very different congregations to worship as one.

Then share the experience with them, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Elyse Fitzpatrick, Bishop Herb Andrew, Ray Cortese, Freddy Banos, and Alex Early at the Grace Encounter conference, March 15-17 at Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, Florida. Visit GraceEncounterConference.com to register.​ The conference is only $25! 

The Bible tells us that it was for freedom that Jesus set us free. How's that working out for you? Do you still feel chained by sin and guilt? You're not alone.

Join Noel Heikkinen on Steve Brown, Etc. for a discussion of his new book, Unchained: If Jesus Has Set Us Free, Why Don't We Feel Free? The true definition of freedom in Christ will surprise you.

Noel Jesse Heikkinen is an admittedly screwed-up pastor at Riverview Church in Lansing, Michigan. He's also the US Midwest Network Director for Acts 29 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Reliant Mission, an organization that mobilizes missionaries to work with local, missional churches globally.

Black, white, Hispanic, conservative, liberal... we're a deeply divided country. But God's radical grace has the power to bring us together.

Join Alex Early and Freddy Banos on Steve Brown, Etc. as they talk with Steve, Pastor Jerry Parries, and Pastor Kevin Labby about the renewing and reconciling power of the gospel.

Then get together with them, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Elyse Fitzpatrick, Bishop Herb Andrew, and Ray Cortese at the Grace Encounter conference, March 15-17 at Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, Florida. Visit GraceEncounterConference.com to register and get discounted hotel rates.​ The conference is only $25!

Kendra Fletcher, homeschooling mom of eight, took pride in having it all together—the right schooling, the right theology, the right church, and the right meal-planning, home-managing, keep-it-all-together parenting. Then it all fell apart. Three of Kendra’s children were taken to the brink of death in a period of 18 months.

Join Kendra on Steve Brown, Etc. for a discussion of her new Key Life/New Growth Press book, Lost & Found: Losing Religion, Finding Grace. You'll see that doing life and religion “right” is a poor substitute for a living relationship with a loving God.

In addition to being a Key Life author, Kendra is a well-known writer, podcaster, and conference speaker in Christian homeschooling circles who addresses the quiet legalism that so easily infiltrates Christian communities and exposes the dangers of focusing our hopes on anything but the finished work of Jesus.

 

Click the image below to order Kendra's book, Lost & Found: Losing Religion, Finding Grace.

Jesus said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” That’s more than a promise for the future. It’s happening right now in our broken lives as God’s unconditional love embraces us just as we are. Grace changes everything.

Join Elyse Fitzpatrick and Ray Cortese on Steve Brown, Etc. as they talk with Steve, Pastor Jerry Parries, and Pastor Kevin Labby about the power of the gospel and what to expect at the upcoming Grace Encounter conference.

Then join them, along with Bishop Clarence McClendon, Alex Early, Freddy Banos, and Bishop Herb Andrew for the Grace Encounter conference, March 15-17 at Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, Florida. Visit GraceEncounterConference.com to register and get discounted hotel rates.​

With so much political, ideological, and racial division in our country, it’s crucial that the Church not only declares the power of God's radical grace, but demonstrates it as well. That's what the Grace Encounter conference is all about.

Join Bishop Clarence McClendon and Bishop Herbert Andrew on Steve Brown, Etc. as they talk with Steve, Pastor Jerry Parries, and Pastor Kevin Labby about the renewing and reconciling power of the gospel.

Then join them, along with Elyse Fitzpatrick, Freddy Banos, Ray Cortese, and Alex Early for the Grace Encounter conference, March 15-17 at Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, Florida. Visit GraceEncounterConference.com to register and get discounted hotel rates.​