Sermons

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 34 Let’s pray: “For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lord, we thank you. Amen. [powerpress]Last week I shared about when good things happen to bad…

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 73 Almost 30 years ago in 1981, Rabbi Harold Kushner published the book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. The main question Rabbi Kushner addressed in the book is – if the universe was created and is governed by a good and loving God, why is there is…

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 33 In the Hebrew language the psalms are called tehillim, which means “songs of praise.” As we continue our series on the psalms it is helpful to remember there are a number of different types of psalms including Individual Laments like Psalm 22 which I shared about last week…

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 22:1-31 Today is the first Sunday of summer. There are songs we associate with different times of the year. Summer songs have a particular feel and bring back memories of school getting out, being on the beach, and summer love. Depending on our age, there are different songs that…

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 112 Jill and I had a wonderful trip to Iceland, England and Scotland. We took a lot of long walks in the hills and highlands and along the coast and visited many churches. We learned about the coming of Christianity to Iceland almost one thousand years ago. One display…

Mary Scheer, Brewster Baptist Church Genesis 22: 1-18 (2,800-2,900) In my last few sermons I’ve been looking at things in our lives that can affect our relationships and our faith.  Today, being a week before Fathers Day, I want to look at the story of one of the Bible’s most historic fathers. [powerpress]Some dads are…

Douglas Scalise, Brewster Baptist Church Psalm 8 I know the calendar says that summer doesn’t officially begin for several more weeks, but for me, summer runs from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend. For the summer, I am going to be preaching from the Book of Psalms, which is the prayer and song book…

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…