Baptist Church of West Chester

Pastor Evan compares the vision and prayer for an ideal king in Psalm 72 with Herod and Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

Pastor Evan reflects on Luke's account of the young Jesus staying behind at the Temple.

Pastor Evan explores Luke 1:39-45, 54-55, and Micah 5:2-4. Through it, we see that love remembers, love stoops towards us, and love uncoils us to love others.

On the third Sunday of Advent, focusing on Joy, pastor Evan examines the roots of Jubilee and how that impacts Mary's song in Luke 1 and Jesus' own preaching in Luke 4.

We long for peace. But what is it? And how do we work towards it?

Pastor Evan explores the second half of Ruth and asks us to consider how we are making space for others.

Pastor Evan asks how God responds to the challenges of a broken world and sees how this response might inspire our own.

Halloween a day when we get it right. Strangers come to us, beautiful, ugly, odd, or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly, and give them good things. Why don't we live like that? - Steve Garnass-Holmes Pastor Evan explores the response of unbiased hospitality that should emerge from our worship of the God who welcomes us.

Pastor Evan Duncan sits down with Rev. Dr. Wayne Croft. Dr. Croft is the Pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in West Chester, PA & The Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr. Associate Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics in African American Studies at United Lutheran Seminary. Pastors Duncan and Croft discuss preaching, ministry, current needs, and the way of Jesus.

According to James Empereur, ​​"The topic of worship is not only timely, it is urgent. There is a widespread sense among Christians in North America that all is not well with the church, that we need a new sense of direction, a new dynamism. In particular, we need something that will capture the imagination and enthusiasm of young adults. The institutional loyalty that many older Christians grew u...

According to James Empereur, ​​"The topic of worship is not only timely, it is urgent. There is a widespread sense among Christians in North America that all is not well with the church, that we need a new sense of direction, a new dynamism. In particular, we need something that will capture the imagination and enthusiasm of young adults. The institutional loyalty that many older Christians grew u...

Jesus’s resurrection meets needs, illuminates scripture, and commissions us out into the world with a message of repentance and forgiveness. Our mission follows the same order.

Pastor Evan reflects on Luke 24:13-35 and how Jesus undoes shame and fear.

Paul writes about his own maturity into deeper meaning and deeper care for those outside of himself. In the Christian life we will discover God, seek God, serve God again and again, we will face walls and crises and challenges, but through it all we discover an invitation of life, by the power of the Spirit, that reflects the way of love. This love shows itself in how we live and what we do. This...

Our faith will face challenges. There will be days when God seems absent or silent. When the ways we practice our faith don’t seem to work. When the stress seems too great. When we numb out everything with business or distraction so we don’t have to deal with the things that scare us. What do we do when we face what some call the wall? Pastor Evan explores the stories of Jairus and the woman bleed...

In this installment of Digging In, we talk to Dr. Christopher Wells about worship, music, physics, science, faith, philosophy and more.

Rev. Abner Cotto-Bonilla, National Coordinator for Latino/a Ministries for the American Baptist Home Mission Society shares about the life of discipleship.

"What is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver Pastor Evan begins a series on our stages or phases of faith as we follow Jesus. We begin with Encounter from Acts 9:9-19.

Pastor Evan Duncan explores Psalm 145 and how this prayer functions as the rudiments of praise as it extols God character and actions. How do we praise? Acknowledge God's Greatness & Goodness Bring to mind(s) what God has done Celebrate God’s Kingdom.

Monica shares about her upcoming sabbatical from teaching and how the scriptures invites us into rhythms of labor and rest.

Malachi ends on a cliffhanger about the Day of the Lord. How can we understand the Day and prepare for it? How might the work of Korean-American theologian Grace Ji-Sun Kim help us think through applying Malachi's vision in our world today?

Zechariah uses this phrase "prisoners of hope" for an audience who knows what it is to be a prisoner. The people of Jerusalem are a people whose story is tied up in slavery in Egypt, exile in Babylon, and even returning under the rule of a foreign empire. Zechariah inspires them to imagine how they might, instead of being imprisoned by others; by fear; or by greed, find themselves captured by the...

"Don't call me a saint, I don't want to be dismissed that easily." - Dorothy Day Pastor Evan Duncan looks at Haggai and the prophet's call to the leaders of the day to rebuild the Temple after exile. What might we learn from this call today? How might founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day, help us interrogate our own faith?

Creation may seem to be unraveling, but God desires to refine us, so that all creation might be united in love. It is good when things enter the light of God Pastor Evan explores Zephaniah and the images of both God's frustration and desire to be with humanity. Pastor Evan looks at writer and author Kaitlin Curtice to help us imagine some of Zephaniah's message applied to our modern world.

Pastor Katelyn puts the prophet Micah in dialogue with theologian James Cone.