Millbrook Baptist Church Blog

Feb 23 2024

Lenten Reflection — Lent Two

So…we don’t just read stories and sing songs and say prayers during our preschool chapel. Sometimes, we go on adventures, and this past week, we went on a bear hunt. And if you’ve ever been on a bear hunt, you know it’s full of tall grass, and swift waters, and muddy bogs, and even dark caves. You can’t go over them. And you can’t go under them. And you can’t go around them. You’ve gotta go through them.

Feb 18 2024

Lenten Reflection — Lent One

The passage from Mark that we read a moment ago is one that we’ve heard in one form or another, probably at least once a year for our whole churchgoing lives. I know we’ve read this text twice already this year alone. And, as is human tendency, we get used to things we’re in frequent contact with - and we are apt to miss them, because they’re so familiar.

Feb 11 2024

Listen to Him

Yes, throughout Mark’s gospel and the others as well, Jesus may dazzle. Jesus may rise. Jesus may ascend. Jesus may walk on water. Jesus may do three dozen things we’ll never be able to fully explain or understand. But that’s not what’s important. Here’s what is: This morning, God tells us Jesus is a source worth listening to.

Feb 4 2024

Words for the Table

When Mark describes the healing, teaching, praying, congregating, loving, and all-around hummingbird-ed-ness of Jesus, (and in just 39 verses mind you!!!), I can’t help but picture this little bouncing ball zig-zagging around the Galilee. What’s most striking to me, is that when Jesus offers a little piece of himself

Jan 28 2024

A New Authority

From its very beginning, Mark’s gospel doesn’t hesitate to let us know that Jesus is called and credentialed to bring about God’s world. The prophets have foretold it. The Evangelist has baptized Jesus. God has affirmed Jesus. The wilderness has even tempted and tested Jesus. Jesus is ready!!!

Jan 21 2024

People, Not Things

Jesus is a day laborer. Some say a carpenter. Perhaps a mason. Maybe a handyman. And Jesus wouldn’t have been able to find much work in the tiny town of Nazareth. What good would carpentry skills do you in a place that didn’t have many buildings, or many people in need of fixing or living in such structures?