Millbrook Baptist Church Blog

Mar 31 2024

Carried-Away Church

Mary, and Mary, and Salome rise early in the morning, though morning is a generous term. Is it really morning in those pre-dawn hours where a boggy darkness betrays any conceivable hope for the smallest sliver of sunlight. No, this darkness is heavy, thick even, and it seems in no hurry to dissipate.

Mar 17 2024

Lenten Reflection

When I was growing up, my dad worked for the Baptist Retirement Homes of North Carolina, and at that time, it was an organization whose funding was significantly tied to the generosity of churches throughout our state. As the primary leader of the organization that meant Daddy was also its chief promoter and fundraiser.

Mar 10 2024

Lenten Reflection: Whosoever

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world. God, the source of all life.

Mar 2 2024

Lenten Reflection Three: Couldn’t, Wouldn’t

In 1977, George Burns, then 81, played the role of God in the Carl Reiner-directed film Oh God! It’s a classic movie with a star-studded cast: John Denver, Teri Garr, Dinah Shore to name a few. And it’s funny, God, portrayed by Burns, doesn’t seem as old to me now as he did when I was a kid. God’s even young enough to run for president!

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.