When Life Causes Us to Doubt, Then What?

As our country approaches its birthday this Wednesday we are in the midst of a presidential election campaign year while a host of issues confront us as a nation that collectively we as a people and government have not been able to resolve well or come together to face. Some of what I see in…

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The Motivating Power of Failure

I know some of you are reading through the Gospels this summer and if you are you will see many stories of Jesus healing people. Jesus and the disciples successfully heal many, many people. In the first few chapters of Mark’s Gospel Jesus commands an unclean spirit to come out of a man (1:26) heals…

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Make Today Count

Our guest preacher today is Dr. Victor F. Scalise. Dr. Scalise served as a pastor at the United Parish in Brookline, MA, where he was Senior Pastor from 1960 – 1977.  He also served as Interim Pastor for 17 American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts (TABCOM) and was recognized by Morehouse College, where he was inducted…

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Are You Curious?

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…

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God’s Bigger Vision for God’s People

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…

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Coping With a Crisis

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…

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Faith That Continually Seeks Understanding

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…

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Jesus the Good Shepherd

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…

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He Came Back For Us

  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]

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