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Brook McBride
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Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Cindy in the Middle
I grew up sharing a bedroom with my two older brothers. Three boys in one room is not always the recipe for peace.One morning I woke up to the sound of them fighting. Not just arguing. Really fighting. Voices raised. Bodies moving into “stand off!” position! High noon at the McBride corral! The kind of tension that makes a younger kid lie still for a moment and wonder what to do.I was scared.And if I’m honest, I was a little bit of a tattletale....
2026-03-13
04 min
Word from Bear Creek
Beyond the Border
Pastor Brook looks at Mark 7:24-30
2026-03-10
16 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Bread for a Breaking World
In these days it can feel as though the world is coming apart faster than we can hold it together.Wars rage across borders. Cities crumble under bombs. Families are scattered. The fragile structures that generations have tried to build—institutions meant to protect human dignity and restrain the worst instincts of power—are being tested and, in some places, deliberately torn down.
2026-03-06
06 min
Word from Bear Creek
Beloved: Named Before the Wilderness
Pastor Brook looks at Mark 1:1-11 and reflects on how we are named, "Beloved"
2026-02-24
18 min
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Look from Brook, Part 1: When Immigration Separates Families We Know
Here’s an op-ed piece i sent to seattle times today. Concerning a wonderful child i baptized and confirmed who is now being held by ICE. Tragic. It’s long but trying to share my Christian conviction for the world. Praying for Nathan’s family
2026-02-19
05 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook, Part 2: When the Running Stops, a Lenten Invitation to Pause
Most of us are running harder than we realize.We keep moving — finishing one task, solving one problem, carrying one more responsibility — rarely stopping long enough to ask what all this running is doing to our souls.There is a moment near the end of the film Forrest Gump when Forrest, after running across the country for years, simply stops. No dramatic music. No grand speech. He turns to the people who have been running behind him and says, almost casually, “I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll go home now.”And that’s it.
2026-02-19
06 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Micro Joys (A Valentine's Reflection)
One of my favorite stories about my parents is wonderfully simple.One night my dad went to bed early and, as a joke, turned himself around so his feet were on the pillow and his head was at the foot of the bed. When my mom came in, she followed her nightly ritual — leaning over to give him a gentle kiss goodnight.Only this time, she kissed his feet.The funny thing came next.She didn’t even notice.
2026-02-13
04 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look From Brook: The Whole Head is Sick
I wrote earlier this week about a small ritual I’ve fallen into over the years. Every Sunday morning, before I leave for church, I stand in front of the mirror for a few quiet seconds.Not to fix anything.Not to judge.Just to notice.It’s a way of asking a simple question: am I actually here? Or am I about to step into the world performing a version of myself I’ve learned to play?Lately it feels like something simila...
2026-02-05
05 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look From Brook: The Retirement I'm Actually Afraid Of
Take a listen to Pastor Brook's Look From Brook!
2026-02-05
05 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: When the World Feels Like It's Spinning
These are tough times. Pastor Brook has something to say about it.
2026-01-27
06 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look From Brook: After Further Review
Let me start off with a secret confession this morning: I’ve been losing my soul to Seahawk football lately. I mean who can blame me! One more game and the Seahawks are in the Super Bowl! Amazing! I love this team!One of the fascinating aspects of football these days is the challenge flag! What,!?! you mean you can challenge a referee’s call!?!? That was unheard of in my day! Challenging a referee’s call got you one thing back in my prime…kicked out of the game! Listen to hear more!
2026-01-22
08 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Happy Birthday, Mom!
A tribute to my mother on her 96th birthday!
2026-01-13
03 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Blessing the End Zone?
This week's audio version of Look from Brook
2026-01-08
05 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Two Babies, Five Post-its, and the Art of Not Knowing
Pastor Brook clarifies a few things for himself.
2026-01-02
03 min
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Make Room
Pastor Brook looks at the Innkeeper and ways we can make room for Jesus in our hearts. Plus, our choir sings Night of Silence.
2025-12-16
19 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: During Floods Like This the Best Prayers Aren't Spoken
Listen to this week's blog-cast!
2025-12-12
06 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: What Barn Cats Can Teach Us About Christmas
Check out this week's Look from Brook!
2025-12-05
05 min
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Look from Brook: Combines, Outhouses, and Community (or lack thereof)
Pastor Brook reflects on ministry and life.
2025-11-21
08 min
Word from Bear Creek
Look from Brook: Learning to be the Cal Raleigh of Wonder-Catching
This week's Look from Brook in audio form!
2025-11-14
06 min
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Look from Brook: Why I Lean Towards John Lennon
This is a special version of our podcast and Look from Brook blog, together as one!
2025-11-06
06 min
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Changemakers: Empowerment
Pastor Brook talks about how being empowered to make change is a great gift.
2025-10-27
22 min
Word from Bear Creek
Changemakers: Creativity
Pastor Brook discusses how God made us to be creative and how we can use our creative energies to make changes for good!
2025-10-20
1h 07
Word from Bear Creek
Giving God Our Imperfections
Pastor Brook looks at how we navigate life with imperfections and experiencing God's grace in the midst of them.
2025-09-22
19 min
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Placing Yourself in the Circle of God's Love
On Sunday we celebrated the annual Blessing of the Animals. Since we were unable to record the outdoor service, Pastor Brook re-preached his sermon just for you! Join us!
2025-08-25
17 min
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God Who Sees
Join us as Pastor Brook gives us the hope that Hagar found when God saw her.
2025-07-24
19 min
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Looking for Light in Dark Times
Join us as we learn about being the light of the Christian message!
2025-01-27
24 min
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The Dream and the Promise
A very special celebration for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
2025-01-21
54 min
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The Truth That Confronts Us
Join us as we learn our instinct to stay on our mat, as an ill man did, and keep doing what we're comfortable with then, instead, do as Jesus commands and stand up and take our mat with us!
2025-01-13
16 min
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Follow Your Star
Join us as we talk about the difficulties and the "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days" many of us have in the month of January.
2025-01-06
16 min
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Seeking LOVE
Join us as we retell the story of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus and how we might heal past wounds with the spirit of love. Please note that due to the nature of this service, it is significantly longer than our typical podcasts as it covers the whole service. Sing along!
2024-12-23
1h 05
Word from Bear Creek
Don't Let the Grinch Steal the Joy of Christmas
We look at Elizabeth and her relationship with Mary.
2024-12-16
23 min
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Seeking Hope
Join us as we remind ourselves who taught us how to stargaze, how we find our North Star, and also the North Star of Christianity, Jesus.
2024-12-02
13 min
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The Power of Love
When love doesn't look like you expect it to.
2024-11-18
21 min
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Living Hesed into a Broken World
Join us as we get together to continue our talk about Ruth and Naomi and never giving up, even and especially when circumstances are uncertain.
2024-11-11
21 min
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Coaxing Mara Toward Hope
Join us as we talk about how Ruth helped Naomi recover after she adopted the name Mara, which means "bitter." We also talk about how we can apply the same spirit as Ruth to ourselves and others.
2024-11-04
11 min
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Which Way?
Join us as we talk about acting, and how Ruth and Naomi's story shows how actions and loyalty can make someone speechless and its parallels in John Wesley's actions and how it forms the spirit of the United Methodist church.
2024-10-28
23 min
Word from Bear Creek
From Bad to Worse
Join us as we look deeper into the first chapter of Ruth to see how things can go from bad to worse, and what to do about it.
2024-10-21
21 min
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The Colors of Forgiveness
Learning to forgive
2024-10-14
23 min
Word from Bear Creek
Bear Creek, This is Our Story
Join us as we discuss all the ways we can give, and we are promised that we will receive what we give in equal measure.
2024-10-14
23 min
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No Hiding from the Past
Join us as we look at ways to incorporate forgiveness and hope into broken relationships
2024-09-30
20 min
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The Question - Why
Join us as we continue to explore how to help someone who may be in a pit like Joseph with the deeds we do, and how we might avoid some of the mistakes we often make when trying to help with words.
2024-09-23
21 min
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Surviving in the Pit
Join us as we talk about Joseph in the pit, how we might find ourselves in our own pit, and how we might find a way out.
2024-09-16
15 min
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Coat of Many Troubles
Join us as we explore the opportunities and the obstacles that we are granted and challenged with through the gifts and privileges we are given.
2024-09-09
25 min
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Why Live to Please God?
Join us as we learn why we live to please God, what we believed would happen when we didn't, and why we can choose to be grateful to God even when times are tough.
2024-09-03
33 min
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The Circle of Life
Today we celebrate the whole circle of life, where we are all in a different season.
2024-08-19
25 min
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What We Can Learn by Listening to Creation
We look at diversity and how glorious it is!!
2024-08-12
17 min
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Here I Am Lord, Now What?
Join us as we are reminded that God has a plan for all of us, even when we have trouble seeing it!
2024-08-05
17 min
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Healing Received and Given
Join us as we learn the importance of the difference in the gospel of John, how the spirit of Christ can change us for the better and forgive us, no matter how dark our days feel.
2024-07-29
15 min
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Listen: Those who have ears
Join us as we discuss the commandment to listen and learn the power the act of listening has to heal.
2024-07-22
21 min
Word from Bear Creek
95 Reasons
Join us as we discover the 95 reasons God looks at you and says, "YES, THIS ONE IS GOOD"
2024-07-15
1h 08
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95 Reasons
Join us as we discover how God created each of us to be GOOD.
2024-07-15
1h 08
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Refined
Join us as we refine our faith by understanding the opportunities to prove our own strengths and grow using the struggles in our lives! Guest preacher: Josie Walsh
2024-07-09
33 min
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Everyone Everywhere All At Once, Part 2
Join us as we draw the circle wide!
2024-07-09
14 min
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Everyone Everywhere All At Once
Join us for a message from Jesus, "He who is without sin cast the first stone." and how we can use it today in our lives to not cast judgement on others!
2024-06-24
24 min
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Being an Effective Father
with Professor David Flomo
2024-06-18
38 min
Word from Bear Creek
In the Flow
See how the Holy Spirit guides us into Her flow
2024-06-10
21 min
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Science/Law meets Spirit/Wind
Meet the Holy Spirit
2024-06-04
17 min
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Strong Core, Soft Knees
How do we cultivate strength in the midst of sorrow? We build a strong core and soft knees.
2024-05-28
21 min
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Under Her Wings
We celebrate Mother's Day with a look at the mothering aspects of the Holy Spirit
2024-05-14
18 min
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Unlock Your Story: Liberation!
Listen as Pastor Brook talks about being liberated from our story!
2024-05-06
25 min
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The Four Faces of Liberation
Join us for the story of the Midwives who disobeyed Pharaoh to save the newborn sons of the Hebrews and how we can use their wisdom to earn freedom for people today.
2024-04-29
20 min
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Unlock Your Story: Finding Home
Join us as we find home and create home for others.
2024-04-22
28 min
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Unlock Your Story: Unlocking Peace
The first step to Easter: Unleashing the Peace of Easter by letting go of power.
2024-04-15
26 min
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Unlocking Your Story: Letting Our Easter God Unlock Our Good Friday Lives
Join us as we learn the importance of being hopeful and knowing that caring about each other is a good way to help people to not give up.
2024-04-08
19 min
Word from Bear Creek
Easter Sunday at Bear Creek 3/31/2024
Christ is Risen! Being Easter PeopleUnlock Your Story
2024-04-02
21 min
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LENT VI: Palm Sunday
We ride into Jerusalem with Jesus
2024-03-25
13 min
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LENT V: Sabbath
Join us as we learn the importance of taking a break and resting on the Sabbath, as we were meant to from Genesis.
2024-03-18
24 min
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LENT IV: Time for Everything
Join us as we learn to be less self-centered and prideful, to be humble and experience the people, communities, and world around us.
2024-03-11
23 min
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Lent III: Making Space to Flourish
Pastor Brook looks at ways to make space to flourish
2024-03-04
16 min
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LENT II: Finding a Sacred Space
Join us for worship as we look to where we can find sacred spaces.
2024-02-26
28 min
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Lent 1: Learning To Skip Rope, 2024-02-18
We are seeking to learn ways to reconnect with our unhurried God.
2024-02-20
24 min
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Because I Knew You
Join us as we experience the healing energy of Jesus through faith, and how each of us can be a force of good and healing too!
2024-02-12
29 min
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You're GREAT But Not That Great
Pastor Brook reminds us that we don't need to be all that.
2024-02-05
29 min
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You Matter To Me
Join us as we discuss an important lesson from Jesus: "For whoever exalts themselves will be humbled, and whoever humbles themselves will be exalted."With guest pianist, 12yo Tiffany Aditya.
2024-01-29
28 min
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Anybody Have a Map?
We look at how God guides us, using the musical Dear Evan Hansen.
2024-01-22
20 min
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Tell Our Story
Join us as we discuss some of the difficulties we've had and how we might better live and interact with all people, not just those we're most familiar with.
2024-01-15
25 min
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Seasons of Love
Pastor Brook begins a sermon series using Broadway shows! Today's show is Rent.
2024-01-08
26 min
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Advent 3: Mary and Elizabeth
Join us to learn about true JOY!
2023-12-18
22 min
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Advent 2: Las Posadas
We celebrate Las Posadas. What is Las Posadas? (Spanish: “The Inns”) religious festival celebrated in Mexico and some parts of the United States between December 16 and 24. Las Posadas commemorates the journey that Joseph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a safe refuge where Mary could give birth to the baby Jesus. When they were unable to find lodging in Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary were forced to seek shelter in a stable, where the Christ Child was born.Las Posadas is celebrated in cities and towns across Mexico. Each evening during the festival, a smal...
2023-12-11
30 min
Word from Bear Creek
Advent 1: Listen
Join us for our first Sunday of Advent as we learn how to listen for God's voice.
2023-12-04
28 min
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[Special Episode: Lectio Divina] Word Made Flesh
Will Rand leads a variation of lectio divina on John 1.
2023-11-27
15 min
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Welcome to the Feast
In today's worship, we look to Hannah's example of connection and response.
2023-11-13
18 min
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Martha Martha Martha!
Pastor Brook talks about Mary and Martha from Luke 10.
2023-11-06
26 min
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Shelter
Join us as we begin our Journey, as Peter did when he left the boat to join Jesus on the water.
2023-10-30
27 min
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From Tablet to Table
Join us as we sit around the table of Christianity, with Jesus and Abraham sitting at the head and serving as the example of hospitality.
2023-10-23
31 min
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For Such a Time as This
The story of Queen Esther
2023-10-16
31 min
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An Encounter at the Well
What happens when Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a well.
2023-10-09
33 min
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Encountering Zaccheus
Join us as we learn about Zaccheus' encounter with Jesus and what he learned.
2023-10-02
18 min
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Finding Shelter
In our third (and final) week of a deep dive into the story of the Good Samaritan, we hear about ways to find shelter and ways to become shelter for othes.
2023-09-25
30 min
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The Good News of the Good Samaritan
In week 2 of our fall series on being a neighbor, we look again at the Good Samaritan story through a different lens. We hear Beth Taylor, Darin Danner, and Pastor Brook in a dramatic retelling, and Pastor Brook takes us into the good news of the Good Samaritan
2023-09-18
25 min
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Building and Tearing Down Fences
Join us as we start to ask the question, "Who is my neighbor?"
2023-09-11
19 min
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Make Me a Clear Channel
Preaching: Will RandJoin us as we appreciate and take in the lessons of the words of Paul and apply them through our own instincts, and not through our hearts and minds. Announcements: Blessing of the Backpacks - Sunday, September 10th! Bring your backpacks to be blessed for the start of the new school year! Block Party - Sunday, September 10th! The Seahawks game will be presented on a 20' screen for all to watch, games will be available for the kids who come along! Bake Sale - During the Block Party, bring any and all homecooked...
2023-09-05
18 min
Word from Bear Creek
The Sloppy Wet Kiss of God's Love
Join us as we learn about accepting God's boundless love in the good times and the hard times. Prayers for the people on Maui and in the Canadian provinces affected by wildfires. Announcements: BCUMC Goes to the Ballpark - Saturday August 26th at 1:10 pm, tickets available ($25 each for 100-level ticket!) We are also accepting sponsors for tickets for Camp Unity members! Fall Marriage Class - Each Sunday in October after worship.
2023-08-21
38 min
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5+2=12 Learning to Do Math the Jesus Way
Join us as we learn that we all have the agency to inspire! Announcements: Sing! - Sunday August 20th at 9 AM, join our Music Coordinator, Will, and all the other singing enthusiasts in our church family to learn a song for service that day! BCUMC Goes to the Ballpark - Saturday August 26th at 1:10 pm, tickets available ($25 each for 100-level ticket!) Fall Marriage Class - Each Sunday in October after worship.
2023-08-07
1h 00
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A Conversation about Advent
Pastor Brook, Will, and Mona talk about our Advent theme this year, "Where is your gaze?" - how it came about, what their thoughts are on it, and how we are using it throughout our Advent season. Take a listen!
2022-12-07
13 min
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The Power and Sweet Smell of Presence - Nov 12, 2022
Pastor Brook McBride shares about how money shapes us.
2022-11-30
14 min
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Leaving Room in the Margins - Nov 6, 2022
As we begin our series on generous giving, we take a look at Leviticus 23:22 and Matthew 25:41-46 to see what the Bible says to us about generosity.
2022-11-14
14 min
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The Repair Shop - Oct 30, 2022
Pastor Brook talks about brokenness and how God is the Great Healer.
2022-11-04
19 min
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Transforming the Power of God - Oct 23, 2022
Pastor Book looks at Acts 8:26-39 as he shares how God's power is transforming.
2022-10-31
19 min
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A New Way to Look at Truth - Oct 9 2022
Reflections from Pastor Brook on Luke 11:37-52 as he looks at truth on holy ground.
2022-10-13
19 min