Messages from Brewster Baptist
Search Tool
Use our new chatbot to search. Opens in a pop up window. NOTE: this is a new tool and is still in training.
Have a Question?
Send a direct email to our Pastors. We'll send your email to the appropriate person and get back to you asap.
The Art of Neighboring
Let’s start at the beginning. “Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.” Whenever people test Jesus, they’re the ones who end up being tested; it’s their hearts and motives that are revealed. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: The Art of Neighboring Today’s…
Love, Grow, Share
There are three qualities we see repeatedly in stories around Jesus, three virtues we’re wise to incorporate in our lives every single day; three behaviors that Jesus encourages in the people around him – Love, Grow, Share. Click to listen: Click this link to get a printable version: Love, Grow,…
Turn North
There are times in life, especially as we get older, when we find ourselves looking back over our life and reflecting on what we’ve experienced. We can see God’s presence and activity in our life as well as our own times of faith and times when we were not so…
Where’s Your Identity?
I would like to start this morning by asking a question. “How many of you struggle with your identity? This may be as simple as how you view yourself. When you look over your life right now, are you truly happy about the life you are living and how you…
The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God
I’m doing some re-reading of the sayings of Desert Fathers, Christian hermits from fourth-and fifth-century Egypt. Here’s an example. A philosopher asked Saint Anthony: Father, how can you be enthusiastic when the comfort of books has been taken away from you? He replied: My book, O Philosopher, is the nature…
The Earth is the Lord’s
What has most shaped your view of the earth and all the creatures, life, and the natural resources it contains? What people, experiences, teaching, and beliefs helped form the view you hold? People have very different views from the utilitarian: “What can I get out of it to benefit myself?”…
Your Next Step
If you use an app like Google Maps on your phone for directions, you know that from your location it gives you two things you can click at the bottom of the screen. The one on the right highlighted in blue says “Start;” encouraging you to press it and get…
The Land of Went
We stand on the other side of the cross and the empty tomb so we experience Holy Week very differently than those who didn’t know how the story ended …those who were living those days didn’t have the benefit of what we know so let’s try to enter into Luke’s…
Lust: Fire, Smoke, and Ashes
Today we’re reflecting on lust, adultery and divorce. These are painful topics for some of us because of our own experiences or because of what we’re going through right now. While it may be difficult for some of us to hear, I pray that it may be helpful. Click to…
Anger – Holy Emotion or Hellish Passion?
Anger is one of the most obvious sins that we as a people must face and deal with constantly. Some of the other sins we are talking about such as lust, envy and greed can be sins that are internal. We can have them in our hearts without people knowing…
Gluttony: Feeding Your Face and Starving Your Heart
Today we’re discussing the vice of gluttony, and the first thing to do is to share what gluttony is and is not. Gluttony is not being over—even egregiously over— one’s ideal or healthy weight. Gluttony is not defined as overeating either. Click to listen: Click this link to get a…
Avarice: I Want It All
“Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’ But he said to him, ‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’ And he said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of…