Millbrook Baptist Church Blog

A Season of Special Services What a wonderful November and December at Millbrook! Thanks to everyone who added to the fullness of the season!!! We wanted to make sure everyone had access to recordings of three very special services at Millbrook that took place in 2024: 1) North Raleigh Interfaith Thanksgiving Service 2) Christmas Cantata […]

When I hear today’s text, it makes me eager to listen for the chorus of creation. To find kinship in its myriads of created beings. To praise God in community. To see Christmas beyond the singular lens of humanity.

And there they find two new parents, each one not too far removed from being terrified themselves. And these mangy shepherds and exhausted parents, gaze at new life. In the birth of a child, they realize that God has given them (and you, and me, and EVERYONE!!!) space to become God’s people.

The Gospel of Luke is the story of people just like you and me, determining to get started. We meet Mary and Elizabeth in the early stages of pregnancy, the life event that is most representative of life’s wonderful chaos. Hope, joy, anxiety, fear, comfort, discomfort, hormones, tears, laughs, hugs…the emotions are varied and endless. In one another, Mary and Elizabeth find community and support, and even more importantly, a sense of joy and hope. In one another, they find the strength to live out their calling.

Advent 2024 The Season of Advent is here!  There are SO many exciting things happening at Millbrook, and we hope you will join us as we prepare for the arrival of the Christchild.  Click here for a list of worship events. Click here for our Advent devotional guide.

Thank God for stars. Because when we gaze at the stars, we are reminded, like the prophet, that we walk in God’s light. We literally walk in God’s light. And God’s light can transform everything we know into something beautiful, something peaceful, something worthy, something illumined, something divine.