Pastor Edward Brouwer 2-25-2018 Traveling with Jesus: to Cana of Galilee John 2:1-12 Traveling with Jesus: To Cana of Galilee A few years back Glenda and I had the privilege of visiting Paris and went to the Louvre. The main attraction there is the Mona…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 2-18-18 “Traveling with Jesus – into the Wilderness” Matthew 4:1-11 Traveling with Jesus: Into the Wilderness This past week saw the beginning of Lent. Tuesday was Mardis Gras, the traditional last day of revelry before Ash Wednesday, which for many Christians represents…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 2-11-2018 Good and Pleasant Psalm 133 Good and Pleasant What’s your definition of good and pleasant? Perhaps it’s a warm sunny day at the beach with a great book? Or maybe you’d settle for the kids getting along in a Norman Rockwellesque,…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 2-4-2018 Psalm 131 “Rest in Him” Rest in Him My dad was a POW held for 3 ½ years in various camps under the Japanese Occupation from 1942-1945. After liberation Indonesian freedom fighters launched attacks against Dutch civilians that included lobbing hand…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 1-28-2018 “He Builds, Watches and Defends” Psalm 127 He Builds, Watches, Blesses and Defends According to rabbinic tradition, Solomon wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes. We all know how that book starts: vanity of vanities ALL is vanity. Empty, fleeting, and vain. The…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 1-21-18 Psalm 122 “How glad are you?” Are You Glad? Introduction—have you ever wanted to start a project but “your get up and go”, just “got up and went!?” A decade ago our family was living in a beautiful home built in…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 1-14-18 “Looking Up” Psalm 121 Looking Up This past summer we did the tourist thing and travelled to central California: San Fran, the wine country, the Pacific Coast. But for me personally, what was on my bucket list was Yosemite. I’d always…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 12-31-2017 “Looking for Jesus” (our apologies for the break in sound toward the end, power outage) Nunc Dimittis Three years ago Glenda and I and our daughter Rachel had the privilege of visiting the Holy Land. One of the important historical sites…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 12-24-17 “GLORY TO GOD” Luke 2:1-20 God’s Glory & Our Peace We are looking at 4 songs in the Gospel of Luke that point to Jesus. Technically what we are looking at today isn’t strictly a song because it’s the Angels who…

Pastor Edward Brouwer 12-17-17 Benedictus Luke 1:67-79 Benedictus Have you every prayed for something and it just didn’t seem like God was hearing your prayers? Have you ever prayed for something so long that finally you just gave up? I wonder if that’s how Elizabeth…