Messages from Brewster Baptist

Today is one of the biggest annual celebrations in the United States. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, a day of football, money, excess, food and more. Businesses will spend millions of dollars for 60 second commercials. On television and radio, in print and online thousands upon thousands of hours have been…

For those just joining with us today, we are in series called the “Mission of the Church”. A few weeks ago, Doug shared in week 1 about the power of “Inviting People to follow Jesus”. Doug shared that Jesus invited people to follow Him all the time. When the disciples…

Getting more than a foot of snow overnight, we’re reminded of how having the right equipment like a plow or a snow blower or a good shovel can make a difference. No matter what a person does for work or for a hobby, there is often specific equipment that’s needed…

Last Sunday we talked about Inviting and how when a person sees and gets to know Jesus it’s natural to want to invite someone else to get connected to Jesus too because of all the ways Jesus impacts and touches our life. Today’s passage is about Connecting. If you look…

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…