Author Archives: Pastor Bryan Lowe

About Pastor Bryan Lowe

A bonafide rascal with definite issues, who is seeking to be authentic in his faith to Jesus Christ. An avid reader and a hopeful writer. Husband and father. A pastor and Bible teacher. Diagnosed as Bipolar Depression and disabled. HCV and brain trauma survivor. Enjoys life in Alaska. Email: flash99603@hotmail.com

I Almost Killed a Man

In 1987 I was serving the Lord with S.O.S. Ministries in San Francisco, California. I was living in community with other team members in the Mission District on Sycamore St. Everything was rather gritty. (Some would say it was ‘loathsome … Continue reading

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Becoming a Gentle Person

“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority.  Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled … Continue reading

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The Story of Kyrie Eleison and My Mental Breakdown

Ten years ago, I somehow connected with this song. I was terribly manic and I had found my way somehow from Alaska to Cambridge, England. It was there I wandered the streets  talking to myself, lost and disoriented. I had … Continue reading

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Sinners Get Priority

  17 Jesus heard this and said to them, “It is not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick. I did not come to invite good people but to invite sinners.” Mark 2:17, NCV “The true Christian’s nostril … Continue reading

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Discipleship is Intimacy

There is so much good about any emphasis the Church puts on discipleship.  We pray, fast, and study the Bible better than any other generation.  We have as our pastors and teachers men and women equipped in our seminaries in … Continue reading

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