Brodhead Christian Church

08/25/2026

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:25-26

08/25/2026

In a world full of uncertainty, we’re grateful for a confidence that does not waver.
Please join us this Sunday if you need a place to recharge and refocus.

08/24/2026

From a presidential road race and Supreme Court intervention to public mockery of the president and an Iranian leader addressing Americans directly, several recent headlines reflect freedoms we largely take for granted. Together, they point toward the biblical worldview that helped shape America’s...

08/24/2026

From all of us at Brodhead Christian Church:
As teachers and students head back to school, we are hoping you have a great first day and a successful new year of school!!

08/23/2026

There are a lot of forces at work in our lives.

Culture has its pressures. The enemy has his lies. Both can leave a person isolated, hurting, and feeling beyond help.

Mark 5 reminds us there is one more force — the Savior. And He is stronger.

Jesus didn't avoid the broken man, He went looking for him. He didn't just change his behavior, He changed his life.

If you feel far from God today, you're not too far for Him to reach you. 1 Peter 3:15 says to be ready to tell others the reason for our hope. This is my hope — Jesus still sets people free.

Please join us next as we continue growing in faith together. 🙏

08/23/2026

08/22/2026

“Do you want the good news or the bad news first?” When someone asks us this, we pray the good news will at least counterbalance the bad. Life being what it is, however, we know that is not always the case.

Sometimes, in fact, bad news travels solo. Even years later, we can still feel the razor-sharp words plunge into our soul as we heard, “We can’t find a heartbeat” or “I don’t love you anymore.” In A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis remarked, “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

A bad news world, swamped in pain, is like that. Fear wears many masks, and it often introduces itself in the form of bad news.

This fact makes a verse in Psalm 112 all the more remarkable.

As the poet describes the righteous man, who delights in God’s commandments, is well-off, gracious, merciful, and whose righteousness endures forever, he includes this most memorable attribute: “He is not afraid of bad news” (112:7).

I have met believers who delight in the commandments, who are merciful, who give charitably. Perfectly? No, but that is the overall picture of their lives. But one who is unafraid of bad news? That is shocking.

And what is the secret of this fearless person? “His heart is firm [or ‘steadfast’], trusting in the LORD.”

Give us all a heart like that, O LORD. Not a stiff upper lip but a heart that knows, come what may, you are not against us. You are for us. Graft our hearts into the heart of Jesus, who was not afraid of bad news because his heart was, and is, firm, trusting in his Father.

In him and through him, we can face our own bad news, whatever it might be. We know that Jesus our Savior is with us, for us, in us. And he will one day swallow up the worst of news when he raises us from the dead and places us in the new creation, where we will live forever in the joy of his presence.
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From my book, Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of Psalms, https://a.co/d/07kzVw4V

08/22/2026

Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:4-5

08/21/2026

"We cannot afford to forget that there are real people suffering and dying because of our culture’s inability to see that life is important at all stages."

A surrogacy dispute involving McKenna West and a baby diagnosed with a severe heart defect has drawn national attention after West refused an abortion and traveled to Texas, where the child was born and received lifesaving surgery. Competing lawsuits and conflicting accounts have since made it diffi...

08/20/2026

“If this world was made by a triune God, a being of community, then relationships of love are what life is really all about.”. Tim Keller

From the national debt and geopolitical threats to extreme weather and cyber warfare, today’s headlines offer plenty of problems we can see but have little power to solve. Yet a landmark Harvard and Duke study on religion and social health offers striking reasons for hope, particularly for those d...