Community Brookside

Matt Morgan
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We are a church that loves people and seeks to look like the Jesus of the gospels.Check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/communitybrookside or visit our website at www.communitybrookside.com.Visit us in person if you are near the Tulsa area Sunday mornings at 11. 

  1. 12/22/2025

    Love: God's Saving Presence

    Advent is about waiting for God's love to break into our world, just as generations before Christ's birth waited for the promised Messiah. The prophets spoke hope into darkness, promising a child who would be called Wonderful Counselor and Prince of Peace. Elizabeth waited her whole life for a child and experienced overwhelming joy when God fulfilled His promise. Mary, despite her youth and uncertainty, said yes to carrying God's son, trusting that love was on the way. Joseph chose trust over fear, protecting Mary and standing by God's plan. The shepherds, ordinary people doing their jobs, became the first to hear the good news and couldn't contain their joy. Today, we continue this waiting, looking for God to move in our lives while sharing the hope we've found with others.

    23 min

  2. 12/16/2025

    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 Jesus' birth, they chose shepherds - society's outcasts - as the first witnesses. True joy isn't passive emotion but active participation in God's mission to include the excluded and bring hope to the forgotten. This Advent, we're called to embody joy by seeking out those who are overlooked and meeting practical needs in our community.

    26 min

  3. 12/08/2025

    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 dominance, God offers transformative peace that works from the inside out. Jesus was born into chaos to bring true reconciliation, not just surface-level tranquility. This peace requires honesty, courage, and active pursuit of healing in our broken relationships and areas where we lack wholeness.

    29 min

  4. 12/02/2025

    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 the Baptist after decades of shame. Mary, young and poor, accepted the call to bear Jesus despite the risks. God consistently chooses the powerless to demonstrate His hope. We can live out this hope today through encouraging speech, generous actions, and intentionally reaching out to overlooked people in our communities.

    31 min

  5. 11/17/2025

    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 that contribute to the whole. No one is insignificant, and everyone is interdependent. True church membership means moving beyond attendance to active participation, supporting ministries, and serving the community. When we embrace our role as part of the body of Christ, we strengthen the entire church and become more effective in serving God's purposes in the world.

    44 min

  6. 11/10/2025

    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 project - they don't work to earn God's presence, but work because He is already with them. The mess they see is part of God's method of transformation, like construction scaffolding that signals progress rather than failure. Resurrection logic calls us to live by God's promises rather than current appearances, participating actively in His long-term construction project even when we can't see the full picture.

    37 min

  7. 11/03/2025

    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 of despair, wounds, and broken relationships. This holy day reminds us that faith doesn't end at the grave but walks right through it. We're called to remove our grave clothes of fear and hopelessness, recognizing the saints who have influenced our spiritual journeys. The best way to honor the saints is to become living saints ourselves, carrying forward their light through acts of kindness, peace, and generosity.

    22 min

  8. 10/27/2025

    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 triumphs over evil. After describing battles and judgment, Revelation reveals God creating a new heaven and earth where He dwells permanently with His people. In this renewed creation, there is no more death, pain, or tears—God Himself wipes them all away. The scary story transforms into the ultimate story of hope, reminding us that no matter what difficulties we face today, we already know how God's story ends: the Lamb wins.

    32 min
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We are a church that loves people and seeks to look like the Jesus of the gospels.Check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/communitybrookside or visit our website at www.communitybrookside.com.Visit us in person if you are near the Tulsa area Sunday mornings at 11. 

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  • Creator
    Matt Morgan
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    260
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Community Brookside
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    Community Brookside