Messages from Brewster Baptist

How much kingdom-building impact did that one faithful Christ-follower have just because he was willing to take a few steps across the room? I believe it was a huge impact.

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 passage, the Amalekites attacked Israel,…

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 of those times is in…

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 movie, the Queen of Soul…

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 to introduce himself, to share…