Messages from Brewster Baptist

While it probably isn’t wise to build ones theology around bumper stickers, I saw two good ones in Orleans on Saturday. One said, “Write your sorrows in sand. Write your blessings in stone.” The other one said, “Jesus is coming, look busy.” I’m glad you’re here looking busy for Easter.…

Today I’m going to tell you about someone who had one of the most incredible experiences any human being has ever had. Many of us would say that Jesus is one person we’d like to meet; how amazing would it be to be close to Jesus, to hear him speak,…

Week Four of Walk Across the Room adapted from the sermon by Bill Hybels Three weeks ago, we asked the question, what if evangelism was as simple as a “walk across the room.” We were reminded the single greatest gift we can offer the people around us is an introduction…

Week Two of Walk Across the Room adapted from the sermon by Bill Hybels. Today begins the 2nd week of our series called “Just Walk Across the Room.” In these four weeks we are discovering that reaching out to someone far from God is as simple as taking a walk…

How much kingdom-building impact did that one faithful Christ-follower have just because he was willing to take a few steps across the room? I believe it was a huge impact.

I want to give you a little background for today’s scripture from Exodus 17. The Amalekites were a fierce desert tribe, unhappy about strangers coming into their territory and they became one of Israel’s enemies in the early periods of their history. Shortly after the Exodus, as recounted in today’s…

If you’ve listened to me preach for any length of time you know that I stress the love, grace, mercy, and goodness of God. Without those, we are all lost. While we’re thankful for those aspects of God’s character, there are also times when God gets angry at people. One…

The Bible has a great deal to say about being good and doing good. God is good and God wants us to be good.

For the next three weeks I’ll be preaching a series I’m calling Think About It: Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs. While I was tempted to play the scene from the movie The Blues Brothers where Aretha Franklin sings the song, “Think,” I have not given into temptation. In the…

Have you ever written a letter to someone you’d never met before? Why did you do it? How did it go? The longest letter in the New Testament is a letter written by someone to a group of people he’d never met before. Paul wrote to the church in Rome…

I knew this past week would be a challenging week for me so that’s why I chose the subject, Why Being Thankful Matters. Of course, all challenges are relative. I’m not a Christian in Egypt, the West Bank, or any other of a long list of countries where it is…