Community Brookside
We are a church that loves people and seeks to look like the Jesus of the gospels.
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Episodes
259 episodes
The Joy of God's Upside-Down Kingdom
Biblical joy during Advent looks radically different from holiday happiness. Mary's Magnificat wasn't a gentle lullaby but a revolutionary song about God's upside-down kingdom that lifts up the lowly and fills the hungry. When angels announced ...
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Peace: God's Peace is Not What We Have Come to Expect
Christmas reveals a deeper peace than temporary calm or absence of conflict. Biblical shalom means wholeness, harmony, and restored relationships with God, others, yourself, and creation. While the Roman Empire enforced peace through military d...
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Hope: God's Promise at the Margins
Biblical hope is defiant and stubborn, believing God isn't finished with our story yet. Elizabeth and Mary, both marginalized women, became vessels of God's promise during Israel's darkest times. Elizabeth, elderly and childless, conceived John...
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The State of the Church 2025
The church is more than a building or weekly gathering—it's a living community where every believer plays a vital role. Using Paul's metaphor of the body, we see that just as each body part is essential, every church member has unique gifts tha...
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When What We See Isn't What We Get
The book of Haggai addresses the Hebrew people who returned from exile expecting to rebuild their glorious temple, only to find their efforts looking small and disappointing compared to the past. God reminds them that His presence precedes His ...
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All Saint's Day 2025
All Saints Day celebrates the living love of God that transcends death, honoring both those who have passed and the living saints around us. Through the story of Lazarus, we see that Jesus meets us in our pain and calls us out of our own graves...
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Scary Stories in Scripture: Revelation Week 3
The Book of Revelation is often misunderstood as a frightening prediction about the end times, but its true message is one of hope and redemption. Many people abandon reading it halfway through, missing the beautiful conclusion where good trium...
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What's Next Papa? - With Special Guest Debbie Wallis
Many Christians find themselves trapped in grave tending - constantly revisiting past hurts, regrets, and failures instead of embracing the resurrection life God offers. Romans 8:12-17 reveals that we are called to be led by the Spirit of God, ...
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Scary Stories in Scripture: Revelation Week 2
Revelation 12-14 presents a cosmic battle between the dragon (Satan), the beast (anti-God empires), and the Lamb (Jesus). The woman clothed with the sun represents Israel and the church, while the dragon's fury explains why bad things happen to...
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Scary Stories in Scripture: Revelation Week 1
Revelation isn't a horror story but a message of hope wrapped in apocalyptic imagery. Written to persecuted churches in Asia Minor, it unveils the spiritual reality behind suffering and shows that Jesus remains sovereign even amid chaos. The fo...
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The Lament that Leads to Liberation
When Jesus approached Jerusalem for the final time, he wept bitterly over the city's spiritual blindness. His tears weren't for himself but for people who missed the peace he offered because they were consumed with politics, religion, and power...
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The Frustration that Fuels Faithfulness
In Mark 7:31-37, Jesus heals a deaf man with a speech impediment, but not before letting out a deep sigh that reveals His holy frustration with the brokenness of our world. This wasn't mere exhaustion—it was a divine lament over how sin damages...
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The Joy that Welcomes the Lost
In Luke 15:1-7, Jesus tells a parable about a shepherd leaving 99 sheep to find one lost sheep, revealing God's heart for the lost. Speaking to both sinners and religious elites, Jesus challenges the Pharisees' exclusionary attitude. As a rabbi...
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The Radical Rage of Jesus
In Mark 3:1-6, Jesus displays righteous anger when confronting religious leaders who valued rigid Sabbath rules over human compassion. When Jesus heals a man with a shriveled hand on the Sabbath, he challenges the Pharisees' legalistic interpre...
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Scandalous Grace: Jesus and the Woman with the Alabaster Jar
Jesus consistently broke social norms to reveal God's heart, as seen in Luke 7:36-50 when He welcomed a 'sinful woman' who anointed His feet with perfume and tears. While Simon the Pharisee judged both Jesus and the woman, Jesus used this momen...
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Formed in the Wilderness
God often leads us through wilderness seasons not as punishment, but as preparation for what lies ahead. In these difficult times, God refines our desires, reveals our dependence on Him, and releases us to our calling. Just as He led the Israel...
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Called to Serve
God's mission isn't reserved for a select few with special training—it's the calling of every believer. As demonstrated by Andrew in John 1, true mission work begins with encountering Jesus and immediately sharing that experience with others. W...
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From Death to Life
The story of Lazarus reveals profound truths about Jesus's character and how He works in our lives. When Jesus deliberately delayed going to His dying friend, it wasn't from indifference but for a greater purpose. By waiting until Lazarus had b...
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This Marathon - With Special Guest Kristen Harlin
Hebrews 12:1-3 encourages us to run our faith race with perseverance, especially during life's hardest moments. Building a firm foundation in Christ through prayer, meditation, church attendance, and Bible reading prepares us for inevitable cha...
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Be the Salt, Not Salty - With Special Guest Kristen Harlin
Jesus challenges our tribal instincts in Mark 9:38-50, teaching that 'whoever is not against us is for us.' He warns against causing others to stumble and emphasizes the importance of being salt—preserving goodness while maintaining balance. Li...
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Inequality & The Prosperity Gospel: Combating Inequality as People of Faith
Jesus' parable of Lazarus and the rich man challenges us to examine the gates that separate people from justice and inclusion in our society. While Jesus never condemned wealth itself, he consistently emphasized caring for the poor and marginal...
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Inequality and the Prosperity Gospel: God's Economy of Enough
God's economy operates on the principle of enough, not excess. The Israelites receiving manna in the wilderness teaches us to trust God's daily provision rather than hoarding out of fear. Throughout Scripture, from the manna to the feeding of m...
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Inequality & The Prosperity Gospel: Debunking the Prosperity Gospel
The prosperity gospel promises financial rewards for faith and giving, but this distorts Jesus's true message. It misinterprets scriptures like Jeremiah 29:11, Proverbs 3:9-10, and Malachi 3:10, which aren't promises of personal wealth. Biblica...
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Closer Still: The Call to a True Relationship with Jesus
Jesus invites us beyond mere belief into a genuine friendship where we share everything with Him. This relationship begins with small steps of trust, as seen in Simon Peter's story of following Jesus' instruction to fish again after a fruitless...
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