Christ Chapel Brownwood

09/03/2021

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08/28/2021

Dear friends and church family,

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our founding and Senior Pastor, Laurance Blackstock.  He passed peacefully at home on Friday evening with loved ones present. We will truly miss this remarkable and loved man, but we know that he is with the Lord and take great comfort in this knowledge. Please keep Jeannie in your prayers at this time. Service arrangements are pending but will be shared when available.

06/26/2021

You are invited to "Friends and Family Sunday " on Sunday, July 4th at Christ Chapel! Join us for worship, the Word, and grilled burgers afterward. Hope to see you there!

04/02/2021

We would love for you to join as we celebrate Jesus on Resurrection Sunday! There will an Egg Hunt for children twelve and under after the service, so don't forget your basket.

04/02/2021

03/27/2021

We are looking forward to Palm Sunday! You won't want to miss this Sunday as we celebrate the King! We will also have the opportunity to hear Christian rapper Eric Torres share his testimony of how God supernaturally intervened in his life through the hope that Jesus brings, and of the amazing change that came about in his life. Bring a friend!

02/13/2021

Hello everyone! We will not be having church tomorrow due to the likelihood of snow and ice as well as extreme temperatures. The streets and walkways may not be safe so we will not meet Sunday Feb. 14th. Remember God loves you, and so do we❣️Looking forward to seeing you next week, stay warm and be blessed!

01/09/2021

Due to the high likelihood of inclement weather including snow, we are canceling our Sunday morning service on 1/10/21. We will see you back next Sunday!!!

12/24/2020

Christmas blessings to you and yours from Christ Chapel! Praying you find hope, peace, and joy in this season of worshipping the King.

11/26/2020

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!!!

07/19/2020

Blessings, everyone! So glad to know that you are all healthy and doing well this week! I’m looking forward to seeing you in person next Sunday, July 26th!

As we walk together through interesting and unprecedented times, there are two tools we must keep in our Christian “toolbelt” if we want to successfully navigate through what lies before us. Paul and Silas in the New Testament faced some adversity, and demonstrated their understanding and wisdom in using two powerful tools to gain victory in an impossible situation!

In Acts 16:25-26 it says, “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.”

The word pray in this passage means to “ask earnestly, to supplicate.” So we see that they prayed and asked for God to help them. It might have sounded like one of those prayers I’ve prayed in crisis, a simple but heartfelt “HELP!” The word praise is translated to mean “sing a hymn.” So we see that the disciples first prayed, then began to praise. They asked, then began to sing praises, thanking God for intervening on their behalf!

In the previous passages of Scripture, we see that Paul and Silas had been arrested, tried, beaten, and jailed. Nothing broke in their situation until they PRAISED!
Some takeaways from this story might be:

1. To navigate adversity we have to learn the discipline of
prayer and praise.
2. Prayer does change the situation (or sometimes it
changes us to the point it’s not even an issue)!
3. So we ask, then praise as if He’s already done it.
4. We have the ability to praise because we have the
faith to believe it’s already done!

Paul and Silas demonstrate the importance of prayer and praise. When it looks the worst, start to praise God. It will turn things around!

Prayer has always been the lifeline of those who follow Christ. Prayer is about talking and listening to God. Charles Spurgeon once said “you never hear of anyone becoming ungenerous, unloving, unkind, and sinful because of too much prayer.” Very fitting words for the tumultuous times we find ourselves in!

Blessings,
Pastor Loree