Gina N. Brown

Welcome to Columbia’s 2019 Watch Night Service. Many of us wait in anticipation of the year 2020. Some are graduating, some getting married all of us are hoping and wishing for bigger and better, glad tidings and goodwill. We hope to see positive change in our lives, our community and our world. God desires that for us as well. Let Us Pray – Illumination For All The Preachers Heavenly Father! You are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords It is an honor to stand and declare your Word. May we deliver what thus saith the Lord unto your people this day. In Jesus Name, Amen The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 2:9 that …Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. As we enter into this new opportunity, this new season, that is 2020 be confident in knowing that God desires to bless you abundantly. I don’t know about you all, but I want my stuff. I want what God has prepared for me...

Welcome: Good Morning and Welcome to Trinity Sunday here at Columbia Theological Seminary Scripture Reading: Our scripture text will be taken from Genesis the 1:1-4a KJV In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good Call:         This is the Word of the Lord Response:            For the people of God Introduction: I know we are not Catholic, but I have a confession to make.   This summer, while on my internship, I had the pleasure of hearing another student of the Word preach on Trinity Sunday.   She did an amazing job however while she preached, I had grand ideas about how I would present the Tri...

#Living My Best Life I have a seven-year-old daughter and I drive her to and from school each day.   The journey is about half an hour each way and we like to use that as our bonding time, so we talk about everything during those rides.   During one of those talks she mentioned to me that there was something she wanted to do.   I wasn’t feeling it and let her know it won’t be happening, and that it was not appropriate for her.   She preceding to tell me that I was hindering her from Living Her Best Life. If I may, allow me to talk to you for 4.5mins about #Living My Best Life We live in a world were everyone is branding themselves on social media.   Everything you every wanted to know about a person can be found online in one app or another.   What is branding anyway?   Simply put it is a marketing term which creates a frame work by which an individual can say, “I am about this or that”. Where the problem lies with branding ...

Click Here for Gina's Good Friday Sermon: Creation's Response Click Here for the Good Friday Group Service Click Here for the Good Friday Group Service Professor's Feedback Professors Response: Gina, thank you for this beautiful piece, and your reading of it (which was extraordinary). I've been struck, during these Easter Cycle services, by how difficult it is--and how critical it is!--for the homilies to relate to one another, work with one another, complement one another. They can't all be the same, or in the same tone. Yet they need to have some commonality of structure and purpose. Your group did such a good job of that: each of you took a portion of the passion story and spoke directly to it, closing with that haunting liturgical refrain (which on Good Friday, holds special significance): "Oh Lord, have mercy on us." We heard those words in a completely new way because of the care your group took to fashion these homilies and place them next ...