Dranesville Church of the Brethren

The Bible is meant to teach us wisdom, which is a matter of life and death.

Our best hope is that our prayers will echo in the heavens in some strange way for the good.

Pastor Joey asks a question about how to prepare for AI.

Repentance and Lament help us to trust in God rather than beasts.

We lose all control when we trust in anything else, but Daniel's trust in God gives us the way forward.

We can only choose to serve beasts or Christ.

Pastor Joey answers a question about terminology in the Gospels.

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.