Weekly Christian sermons from Brewster Baptist Church
For the last month in worship we’ve been talking about Finding God in Unexpected Places and those sermons were about finding God in undesirable circumstances like when we’ve been mistreated or can’t sleep, when our life gets turned upside down and we have to get used to a “new normal” or when we can’t get…
How do you feel about a trip to the doctor’s office? For example, do you look forward to it because you think it will help you live a healthy lifestyle or to feel better? Do you dread it because you’re afraid of what you might hear and what it might cost? Would you rather cope…
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a person in the Bible? What would it have been like to be someone like Hagar, Samuel, Isaiah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, or Paul? It might be an amazing experience, but I know I wouldn’t want to have been Jeremiah. He had a tough…
Many of the characters we encounter in the pages of the Bible, we see for a single moment, or only at one period in their life. Samuel is that rare person we learn about from before he is born, to childhood and adulthood to the very end of his life. In the book that bears…
For the next five weeks we’re doing a series in worship and in small groups on Finding God in Unexpected Places. There are some places we kind of expect to find God – like in a worship service, reading the Bible, in our personal devotional time, when we’re serving others for God’s glory and to…
Our guest preacher this week is Rev. Steve Youd. Steve holds degrees from both Gordon College and Yale University, the latter awarding him the Mersick Preaching Prize. Steve has served as Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson, Massachusetts – – a congregation that engaged dozens of their people in hands-on mission to such…
This morning we are going to be talking about one of the hardest things to do in life. I would suggest doing this activity is hard to endure, yet unbelievable freedom can come from it. This morning, we are going to be talking about “Forgiveness”; how we need to learn to forgive the people that…
Let’s begin, reading from The Message, the book of James, Chapter 3, starting at verse 3. 3-5 A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word…
We don’t know much about the prophet Habakkuk, not even his father’s name, but we know he likely spoke during the height of Babylonian power (608-598 B.C.) and that he asked hard, searching questions. Looking at his homeland of Judah, observing the violence and injustice on every hand, he cries out to God with some…