Messages from Brewster Baptist

One of the things I find fascinating about the Bible is that you can read or listen to a passage and the first time through you’re trying to get a basic sense of what’s going on, what’s the point, what’s happening. When you go over it again, more slowly, all…

The terrific book about Spiritual Growth, Celebration of Discipline, by Richard Foster, begins with these words, “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but…

Luke 2:8-20 (KJV), And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel…

39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit…

This is a time of year that many of us enjoy, and yet it also can be a little stressful with all we feel we’d like to do, want to do, and need to do, to say nothing of how events in the larger world impact us as well. A…

Luke 3:1-6, “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,…

Making a habit of giving thanks for every day blessings, learning to live with gratitude, is God’s will for all of us no matter what happens in our life.

Part 2 of our series: How to be Rich We are in a second part of a series called, “How to be Rich”. This past summer I read an amazing book by a Pastor named Andy Stanley. He is a well-known pastor in Atlanta, Georgia. The book was called, “How…

This past summer, I came across a book written by one of my favorite pastors, Andy Stanley. Andy is a pastor of a large church in Atlanta, Georgia. Many of you might recognize his father Charles Stanley who also was a famous pastor. The name of Andy’s book was “How…

Our Guest Preacher this morning is Rev. Steve Youd Steve is the former Director of Mission & Stewardship for the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts. Prior to his retirement in 2014, Steve also served as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hanson, Massachusetts, and, was the “Building Pastor”…

I know that Pastor David was very sorry about being sick today, and not being able to share the message he had for us.  We are not always in control of what happens to us. While many were out trick-or-treating and enjoying the lovely day yesterday, the daughter of a…

Our Guest Preacher today is Marilyn Raatz. This is what the Lord Almighty said: “Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor.” Zechariah 7:9-10a Memory Verse: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” Luke…