Branches Church

If you are our guest, we are so happy that you are here. It is our practice at Branches Church to give God an opportunity to minister before we leave. We do this by coming together in prayer. I have learned that when God’s Word has been delivered and someone is stirred in their spirit that is when God…

His mercy is for you! His mercy endures forever! If you will respond to His call, He will heal you.

For Rome it was a disastrous day. For Carthage, it was turning into a glorious day. The two world powers had been at war for 6 years. The war would continue for almost another decade and would catapult Rome on its way to controlling most of the western world. On this day the Roman military machine was…

Who He is In the Bible, there are words that refer to God, words that we capitalize and call “names,” but the truth is, they are not really His name. Hebrew words like Elohim and El Shaddai are two such names. Yahweh, many consider this to be the proper name of God but, in fact, it is not. It is what…

17 Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield no food; Though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls— 18 Yet I will rejoice in the Lord , I will joy in the God of my salvation. Faith…

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those…

Jesus is the center of Christmas. He came for common people.

The experience of the people of God in the Old Testament un-wrapped new understandings of God.

With the presence of Jesus the insignificant, common, and messy become the placeholder for something wonderful.

Background The OT ended with a promise. The promise of a Messiah that would come to his people. 2 But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves. The promise would be fulfilled only after the return of…

The answer for darkness is light. The scripture gives us three sources of light that should be in each of our lives.

There are some promise killers that are working in our world. If we are not aware these promise killers will take what God had planned to do and turn it into a curse.

We all face trials. How would God have us navigate the trials He allows us to face?

Remedy for Hopelessness Naaman - great man/honorable But - He was a leper Day 1 - when Naaman first noted the change in his skin. Physician - no cure, we can’t help Naaman as great as the world could make him, yet the lowest slaved in Syria would not change skins with him. The gloom - Naaman thought…