Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 15:11-32 Earlier in the service we heard Luke 15:1-10 and Jesus’ parables of the found sheep and the found coin. Both the sheep and the coin were lost and helpless to change their condition. Jesus continues by telling a story about a father with two sons. “And Jesus said,…
Pastor Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 14:15-24 In Luke 14, Jesus is eating a meal at the house of a leader of the Pharisees. He is being watched closely in a testing way by those who have not embraced him or his teaching but who are self-righteous and look down on other people who…
Pastor Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 13:1-9 Tragedies we hear about in the news often cause people to think theologically – we can wonder why something happened or seek to find meaning or a reason that helps us understand or cope with what has taken place. This is an ancient human response which is…
Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 12:35-48 The context for today’s Gospel passage is that Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem where he will be crucified and he is teaching the crowds and his disciples about living faithfully. Jesus knows the time is coming when he will no longer be physically present with his…
Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 8:4-18 For the next five weeks we are going to be listening to some of Jesus’ parables in worship and talking about them in small groups. On one level, a parable is simply a comparison, a putting of one thing beside another to make a point.[1] Because parables involve…
Mary Scheer, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 9: 57-62 In my last few sermons I’ve been talking about things that can be obstacles to our faith and affect our relationships with God and keep us from living our best life. Today I want to talk about things that can cause us to get stuck in life…
Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 24:13-35 The last few weeks we have looked at Palm Sunday and Easter in Luke’s Gospel, and shared some of things that surprised us. Last week we noted how we expected Jesus to greet the women at the tomb, but he doesn’t. The key thought expressed by the divine…
Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Luke 19:29-40 Expectations are powerful in shaping how we feel and what we think. When our expectations are met we tend to be happy, satisfied and content. When our expectations are not met we tend to be impatient, disappointed, resentful, or angry. We experience this all the time in our…
Rev. Mary Scheer, Brewster Baptist Church James 3: 13-16 In my last couple sermons I talked about things that are obstacles to our faith and affect our relationship with God and keep us from fully enjoying life. First we looked at how idols in our lives can lead us away from God and deeper into…