Posts by BBC
Love, Grow, Share
There are three qualities we see repeatedly in stories around Jesus, three virtues we’re wise to incorporate in our lives every single day; three behaviors that Jesus encourages in the people around him – Love, Grow, Share. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Love, Grow, Share Luke 5.17-26 There are…
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Turn North
There are times in life, especially as we get older, when we find ourselves looking back over our life and reflecting on what we’ve experienced. We can see God’s presence and activity in our life as well as our own times of faith and times when we were not so faithful, times when we felt…
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Pastoral Counseling
Rev. Lee Vermont, a retired pastor and BBC member, would like to offer 3-5 sessions of no fee short term pastoral counseling services to anyone from the BBC congregation, up to October 1, 2019. These services should not be considered professional therapy. If a counseling referral is needed after this 3-5 session period, Rev. Vermont…
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Where’s Your Identity?
I would like to start this morning by asking a question. “How many of you struggle with your identity? This may be as simple as how you view yourself. When you look over your life right now, are you truly happy about the life you are living and how you are doing? Click to listen:…
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New Online Giving Service
Thank you so much for your generosity. Your contribution supports all of the work God is doing in and through Brewster Baptist Church. Lives are being changed because of you. We’ve started the transition to our new giving platform Pushpay. This will make your online giving more streamlined than ever. Click the “Start giving online”…
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The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God
I’m doing some re-reading of the sayings of Desert Fathers, Christian hermits from fourth-and fifth-century Egypt. Here’s an example. A philosopher asked Saint Anthony: Father, how can you be enthusiastic when the comfort of books has been taken away from you? He replied: My book, O Philosopher, is the nature of created things, and whenever…
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The Earth is the Lord’s
What has most shaped your view of the earth and all the creatures, life, and the natural resources it contains? What people, experiences, teaching, and beliefs helped form the view you hold? People have very different views from the utilitarian: “What can I get out of it to benefit myself?” to a view of creation…
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Your Next Step
If you use an app like Google Maps on your phone for directions, you know that from your location it gives you two things you can click at the bottom of the screen. The one on the right highlighted in blue says “Start;” encouraging you to press it and get going. On the left, there’s…
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The Land of Went
We stand on the other side of the cross and the empty tomb so we experience Holy Week very differently than those who didn’t know how the story ended …those who were living those days didn’t have the benefit of what we know so let’s try to enter into Luke’s version of Palm Sunday as…
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