Messages from Brewster Baptist

Proverbs 17:17 (The Message), “Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.” That’s gratifying and encouraging when it happens and painful when it doesn’t. The next scripture from 2 Samuel 15:17-23 is about a time when a family didn’t stick together in…

We’re heading into the time of year when many people eat more ice cream and I confess I am very discerning, selective and particular when it comes to eating ice cream. I will only eat ice cream that’s cold or melting, in a cup or in a cone, or blended…

Today is an important Sunday in the Christian year, it’s Pentecost, which is the Sunday the church remembers how the Holy Spirit came upon the first disciples of Jesus while they were worshiping and praying together in Jerusalem as Jesus had told them . This is how Acts 2:1-13 describes…

Good morning to you and for those of you who are visiting my name is David Pranga. I am the Executive Pastor here at Brewster Baptist Church. We are in a series entitled, “Elements of a Healthy Relationship”. It has been a great series so far. We are in week…

We scheduled this series on The Elements of Healthy Relationships so that both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day would be a part of it. Each person’s experience of those two days is different depending on whether we had or have a good relationship with them or not and whether our…

John 14:23-27, “23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine,…

The last few Sunday’s it’s been nice seeing more and more of our people returning from Florida and Arizona and other warmer climates. If you’ve recently returned from a place like Florida, and even if we haven’t, we understand a basic truth: the climate controls the crops – you don’t…

I want to begin this morning with a game called Jenga. Are you familiar with it? A Jenga game consists of 54 small wood blocks. To set up the game you stack all of the blocks in levels of three placed next to each other and at a right angle…

This morning, we start a new series called, “The Elements of Healthy Relationships”. Every day we are in relationships with people. People we enjoy spending time with like family, friends, and even co-workers and also with people that drive us a little nutty. These people can bring stress into our…

Lawrence Althouse, a retired United Methodist pastor, tells a story about when he almost missed an Easter service: “Many years ago, when I was working in a suburban New York church, I was asked to take part in an Easter sunrise pageant held at the Bronx River Parkway. At 5:15…

“When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie…

For the last month in worship we’ve been talking about Finding God in Unexpected Places and those sermons were about finding God in undesirable circumstances like when we’ve been mistreated or can’t sleep, when our life gets turned upside down and we have to get used to a “new normal”…