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Message Preview: Welcome and Instruct One Another
Services at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. We’ll be visiting Paul’s letter to the Romans. In chapter 15, Paul repeats some things he mentioned earlier, about living in harmony with each other, and welcoming and instructing each other. Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. – Romans 15:7…
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Outdo One Another in Showing Honor and Live in Harmony with One Another
If we want to be more like Jesus and less like the disciples were before Christ’s death and resurrection, if we want to be faithful and live how Paul tells us we’re supposed to in Romans 12, then there are at least three things to do so we can take the lead in outdoing one…
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Message Preview: Outdo One Another in Showing Honor and Live in Harmony with One Another
Services at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. Who is great? How do you get to be great? Even the Apostles had trouble with that question, and Jesus used a child to try to teach them – and us – the answer. “Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.” Romans 12:10 (NRSV)…
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Walking Wisely in the New Year
Amid all that is taking place, Paul tells the Ephesians they’re to be (Ephesians 5:20), “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” As you begin a New Year, what are thankful for? What are you afraid of? What are you praying about? What do…
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New Series: Creating and Strengthening Community
A new worship series to start off 2020! “Let him who cannot be alone beware of community…. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone…. Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks…
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Message Preview: Walk Wisely in the New Year
Services at 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. A new month, a new year, and a new decade! And this Sunday we kick off a new worship series where we will focus on creating and strengthening community. Be filled with the Spirit, addressing on another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to…
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Celebrating Another Year With God
Members of our Brewster Baptist congregation share testimonies about how God has been at work in their lives. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven. Psalm 148:13 (NRSV) Click to listen:
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Letting God
Many of us feel like Atlas… We’re carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders, we’re weighed down, stumbling, and falling under the burdens we feel. Christmas is Jesus pulling up alongside us and asking, “You want a hand with that?” Jesus invites us to lay the weight of our burdens on him because…
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A Sign from the Lord
Through Joseph, Mary and their baby Jesus, God is telling us all: You are loved unconditionally. You are not alone. Don’t give up. Keep the faith. Keep on believing. Henri Nouwen said, “This is the great conversion in our life: to recognize and believe that the many unexpected events are not just disturbing interruptions of…
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