Leon B. Brown Sr.

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There are figures in religious history who do not fit easily into denominational timelines or institutional triumphalism. They trouble us. They refuse to stay put. They expose fault lines, not by shouting from the margins but by standing too close to the center. Lewis C. Sheafe was such a figure. His life reads less like…

Throughout my adult life, whenever I needed a prayer breakthrough, I called my parents. My wife and I are convinced that my father has a direct link to the throne of God and that God hears and answers his prayers. When my dad prays, godly things happen. I have attempted to model, though often imperfectly,…

What is the purpose of a parable? In the Gospels of the New Testament, parables were stories told by Jesus to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. In Matthew 20:1-16 Jesus tells the parable of the vineyard workers. In the parable, a landowner went out to hire workers to tend his vineyard. The Bible says…

Luke 15:18 tells of a transformational moment toward which the prodigal son has been heading for years. His arrival at this moment was not planned, but it was scripted. Every act of this young man’s life was leading him directly to this moment. There was nothing anyone could do to keep him from arriving here.…