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Did you see the story last week about the teenager in Germany Shouryya Ray who solved a 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton? Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance. The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped…

If you ask Christians about the key holy days in the year most will say Christmas and Easter. A third very important day is today. According to Luke, the author of Acts, it has now been seven weeks since the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. For forty days the risen Christ appeared to and instructed…

In the Book of The Acts of the Apostles, we see how the ministry Jesus began was transformed from a small group of Jewish followers largely from the region around Galilee into the beginnings of a global movement. In Acts 1, a group of about 120 disciples are waiting and praying in Jerusalem. By the…

I apologize that my message today may not sound like a Mother’s Day sermon, but that’s because I was going to be giving it last Sunday until our worship plans changed and we had the wonderful sharing from the folks who went on the mission trip to Bulgaria. I want to talk with you today…

Growing up I never had much experience with sheep. About the closest I get to sheep is a wool blazer. While sheep have not been an important part of my life, they are one of the few livestock animals that are found virtually everywhere in the world. Australia has ten times as many sheep as…

  April 22, 2012 John 21: 1-14 & Luke 5:1-11 – He Came Back For Us Pastor David Anderson, at Brewster Baptist Church He Came Back For Us from BBC Staff on Vimeo. [powerpress]

Today’s Gospel passage describes two encounters with the resurrected Jesus, the first happens on Easter Sunday evening and the other one week later. Listen closely. 19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of…

“When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 They had been saying to one another, “Who…

One thing that is not new to the human experience is suffering; it has always been a part of life. Suffering, hardship, pain, grief, and the sometimes unspeakable things that human beings do to other people, have always been part of human history. They have also been part of causing people to question or doubt…