Dranesville Church of the Brethren

Our methods of gaining control over the world often come to control us.

Giving God our body, mind, and heart will conflict with what the World demands from us.

We often use God as one more tool for our own control of the world.

Our attempts to gain control, rather than trusting God, are short-lived and ill-fated.

The wisdom of this world promises control, but that control ultimately enslaves us.

Apocalyptic gives us the ability to see the world from a God's eye view, and the result is surprising.

Pastor Joey answers a question about a confusing passage of Scripture.

The whole point of our faith is that we would be in the presence of God.

The key to maintaining your identity as a Christian in the midst of the kingdom of this World is the wisdom that comes from God.

Jesus came to establish a new family.

Pastor Joey answers a question about predestination (or does he?)

Christ has conquered our fear of death.

The story of the Resurrection shows we can't understand God on our own.

This message reflects on: Why accepting grace can feel like a kind of death The contrast between doubt and trust in Luke’s Gospel What the resurrection really proves about humanity and God “Confused rejoicing” as the Christian response to God’s work How new life begins when we surrender control

We regularly try to tell Jesus who he is. This Holy Week, we should allow Jesus to tell his own story.

In doing the work of managing the church, we may find that we have stolen it from God.

Christ calls us to true love and true obedience.

Jesus calls us to judge by more than what our eyes see.

Pastor Joey answers a question about Melchizedek

We should prepare ourselves for God to tell us to change during Lent, which means building time in our lives for repentance.

Christ has saved us together, and we are meant to live together.

A Brethren value is living simply.

Brethren are called to live peacefully

Pastor Joey answers a question about Satan.

Brethren are called to continue the work of Jesus.

Pastor Joey answers a question about the difference between the Old and New Testaments.

If God has saved us by his grace, we have no right to question how he's done it and for whom.

Christ came to form a new kind of community.

Our reaction to what God does can reveal our real gods to us, and requires us to decide whether to go on worshiping idols.

The Gospel should impact how we understand history.

Pastor Joey answers a question about the development of Afterlife Theology

The meaningful action in the first century was between God, a teenaged woman, and her baby, and not the strong Empires that vied for power. That means Christians view power very differently from the rest of the world.

Christ came to bear the shame of our sins, so we should do the same for others.

Repentance is the key to understanding what God is doing in history.

Pastor Joey answers a question about exactly what kind of angel Satan was (if, in fact, he was an angel?)

The coming of Christ spells the end of long suffering and futility, but it happened before we got our act together.

Christ's coming has given our lives meaning.

Christ's coming has given our lives meaning.

We should prepare ourselves for Christ's coming this Advent.

We form our identity in community.

Jesus brings us humility to save us from pride

It is very difficult to maintain your identity as a Christian in the kingdom of this World.

1 Samuel teaches us not to trust in human might but the God who saves with the weak.

Guest speaker Calvin Park from Brownsville Church of the Brethren.

The wisdom of obedience is the best way to know what God wants.

Our spiritual lives often require us to wrestle with God.

God has given us a community to help teach us how to live as Christ did.

Until Christ brings the whole truth, many things will be a matter of perspective. This includes our relationships with others. But Christ will one day bring purity and simplicity.Cover Credit - “A picture of an optical illusion. Taken at the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.” Diarb2008. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

In Christ, all our sins are forgiven. Including the sins which your brother or sister has committed against you.

There is a fine line between zeal and jealousy.