Messages from Brewster Baptist

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…

What are you passionate about? What do you care deeply about? Do you think other people know what you’re passionate about? How can they tell? With the football playoffs, you can see what people who are passionate about football are willing to do: they buy their team’s jackets, jersey’s, shirts,…

We all know that some people make resolutions around New Year’s often involving exercise, losing weight, and even sometimes around their spiritual life. How many of us made a resolution? In one Peanuts cartoon Charlie Brown says about his New Year’s resolution, “You know how I always dread the whole…

Did I ever tell you about how I came to be a Christian? The story of what happened in my life that took me from the place of doubt to the place of belief? In one 24 hour period, Jesus set me free from bondage to a way of life…

The good news we celebrate at Christmas is we don’t have to carry the weight of problems or the weight of the world. The baby born in the manger will do that. God loves us so much that God chose to live among us.

Today at the 11:00 service we dedicated little Aiden Keith Ballantine. If you were to ask his mom and dad and grandparents, they would happily tell you how his birth has changed their lives. A friend of mine, Eric, and his wife, Bridget, had their first baby this week. It’s…

At this time of the year, a lot of people are looking forward to something. What are you looking forward to in the coming weeks? Time off from school, visits from loved ones, family members going back where they came from, parties, concerts, snow, worship services, presents, celebrating the birth…