Messages from Brewster Baptist

Christmas caroling is meaningful to almost everyone who goes because as Will Ferrell observed in the movie Elf, “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.”  Some of us are not great singers, but people don’t seem to mind too much (except for the…

Words are inadequate to express the heartache and grief the families in Newtown, Connecticut are experiencing today. It’s a tragedy that’s hard to fathom. As a parent I can’t imagine sending my child to elementary school and having an event like this take place that is so senseless, heartless, and…

For perhaps all of human history, people have focused on and obsessed about those who are in positions of power. The pyramids after all weren’t built for commoners. It is worse today than it has ever been with photographers and media people invading people’s privacy and stalking and harassing people…

In the weeks leading up to Christmas many of our schedules are filled with activities, special events, gatherings with friends, parties, music, worship all of which I enjoy. Yesterday Jill and I volunteered at the winter music festival at Nauset Regional High School. It was great hearing so many of…

Having just come though Thanksgiving, I was drawn to this morning’s text because it is so relatable.  Some might say it’s an example of dysfunctional dinners, deadlines and other company related disasters, which all seem multiplied during the holidays. If you could choose anyone to come for thanksgiving dinner at…

This coming week we celebrate Thanksgiving. Have you heard that some stores will be open on Thanksgiving night for “holiday” shopping? It’s upsetting and disappointing that opening at midnight Thursday or 1:00 am or 4:30 am Friday apparently isn’t disruptive enough for folks who have to leave their families to…

This morning we’re looking at seeking the lost… Many times, we in the church become comfortable with being a part of a safe community, the community of believers that, as it were, are called out from the world. November 11, 2012 Luke 19:1–10, Seeking the Lost Charles Johnson, ABCUSA International…

What a week it’s been. Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey and New York in ways that eerily resembled the movie The Day After Tomorrow. We’ve all seen the images of suffering, devastation, grief, and anguish. I was speaking with a man at the Church Fair yesterday who told me he…

Late one night this past April, I was standing, in the rain by the side of an unfamiliar road in Bulgaria. I was waiting for a car coming up the hill to pass me so I could run across the street to the warmth of the hotel on the other…

4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses…

“If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church;…

Last Sunday afternoon a friend from BBC stopped by our house with some homemade cookies right as the kettle was boiling for me to have a cup of tea – it was a lovely treat. Monday afternoon visited with three BBC folks who were at Cape Cod Hospital then that…