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The Heart of Good Stewardship
During the last week of Jesus’ life as given in Mark’s Gospel there are three people, in addition to Jesus, who figure prominently: Judas, who betrays Christ, Peter who denies him, and an unnamed woman who anoints him before the failures of Judas and Peter. It is interesting that the…
Our Neighbor at the Gate
It’s nice to be at BBC after being away the last two Sundays. Two weeks ago, Jill and I were in New Bern, North Carolina attending the wedding of our friend Adam Warren who stayed with us in the summer of 2007 when he pitched for the Brewster Whitecaps in…
Hold Nothing Back
As we continue to look at spiritual gifts, I want to talk today about discovering and developing our gifts. Our text is from Matthew 25: 14-30. One day while Jesus was talking about the Kingdom of heaven, he was using parables to describe what it was like. He said, “It’s…
The Future As A Horizon of Promise
For some of us it may be difficult to believe that it was nine years ago, on the third Sunday of October, October 21, 2001 to be precise, that we held the first worship service in this sanctuary. Since that time BBC has continued to change – our worship, mission,…
If You Want To Improve Your Life…
In case you didn’t know it already, Americans are woefully ignorant about religion. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published the outcome of its U.S. Religious knowledge survey on September 28 and the results were not flattering. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons were among the highest-scoring groups…
Healing and Humility
Last Sunday evening after I got home from the Advisory Council meeting I caught the end of 60 Minutes. Immediately after that The Amazing Race came on which I’ve never seen but I was curious because it started in Gloucester, Massachusetts and the competitors needed to find their way to…
What Happens When You Can’t Do It All?
Exodus 18 begins by telling us that while Moses was off in Egypt serving the Lord and delivering the Israelites from slavery, his wife Zipporah and their two sons Gershom and Eliezer, were staying with Zipporah’s dad, Jethro, and presumably, his wife. After what turned into a very extended visit…
The Purpose of Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:1-11, “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one…
Imagine a Church
This past week we’ve witnessed one of the things that troubles me about the world in which we live. Fifty years ago if the pastor of a tiny church said he was going to burn copies of another religion’s core faith document virtually no one would have known about it…
God is Our Creator and Provider
Perhaps you saw this week that physicist Stephen Hawkings’ book “The Grand Design” hit the market. In an act of brilliant publicity to boost sales Hawking announced that God wasn’t necessary for the creation of the universe. I’m sure God was shocked and almost choked on the morning toast reading…
The Joy of Worship
Think for a moment about a place you’d love to go – it could be a vacation spot, a family retreat, or a place in the city or country, it could be in North America or on another continent. It would be the kind of place that makes your heart…
Create in Me a Clean Heart
Today’s subject is heavy.* The weight of guilt for things we have done or not done, for things we have said or failed to say can be overwhelming and crushing. Guilt – the awareness of having done wrong accompanied by feelings of shame and regret – is a powerful emotion,…