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12/29/2020 God's Sovereignty in 2020 (and 2021) (The following is a lightly edited transcript from a sermon on 1 John 5:18-21 entitled, “We Are in Him Who is True” delivered by Pastor Nathan Brooks on December 27, 2020.) God's Sovereignty and 2020There’s a trend of talking about the current year as if it were a real thing. Especially during difficulties. As if the year 2020 is the cause of everything that happened in 2020.
12/15/2020 A Widow's Worship and Witness Article by: Nathan BrooksPastor, Glorieta Baptist Church This Advent, if you’re wondering what it looks like to adore Jesus, Luke is a good place to look. Repeatedly in his gospel, Luke shows us many different types of people adoring Jesus.
And in Luke 2:36-38, he introduces us to Anna, an elderly, widowed prophetess who gets to meet Jesus as a baby in the temple in Jerusalem.  Article by: Nathan BrooksPastor, Glorieta Baptist Church In the incarnation of Jesus, there is so much to savor. And we should strive to savor it all.
Imagine two weeks ago, sitting down to a Thanksgiving meal saying, “Wow, there is so much food here! I’m just not going to eat anything.” You wouldn’t say that. Instead, you might take one bite at a time, enjoying everything on the table. This should be our approach to the story of the incarnation of Jesus. The truths in this story are best savored one bite at a time.  Article by: Nathan BrooksPastor, Glorieta Baptist Church “Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine." This is a famous line from the beginning of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, said in annoyance by Ebenezer Scrooge to his jovial nephew Fred. While Scrooge barks this reply to justify not celebrating Christmas at all, it nevertheless raises questions: How should Christians keep Christmas? Can we keep it in our own ways? Are they’re ways we shouldn’t keep it?
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