BraemarCast: The Podcast of Braemar Baptist Church

Our lives can often be impacted by experiences of devastating grief and loss that leave us feeling hopeless. This week Pastor Kent will be exploring an example of this from Scripture in a sermon titled " If Only You Would Have Been Here ," as we continue in our series “ Resurrecting Hope: Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges ” and see how the hope we find in the resurrection of Jes...

Pastor Kent is continuing in our sermon series “ Resurrecting Hope: Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges ”, with a sermon titled " Do You Love Me? " Sometimes it's the relationships in our lives that can come to feel like they have become damaged beyond repair. We'll explore how the hope we find in the resurrection of Jesus, can also bring new hope to broken relationships...

It's Easter Sunday... HE IS RISEN! It's also important for us to remember that the story and power of Easter is more than a one-day event. We’ll be exploring how the resurrection of Jesus can transform every area of our lives in a new 4-week series called “ Resurrecting Hope: Overcoming Life's Greatest Challenges .” Pastor Kent is starting the series this week with a sermon appropri...

If you’ve ever struggled or faced challenges, or even tragedy and loss in your life, perhaps someone has sought to encourage you by suggesting that “ God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle .” We’ll be considering this sentiment this week as Pastor Kent concludes our series “ Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe .” To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com .  

Pastor Kent is continuing in our sermon series " Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe " this week. It's comforting, especially in difficult or uncertain circumstances, to think that " God Has a Blueprint for Your Life. " But is that very specific way of looking at things really true, or is there a better way to understand how God actually views the details of our lives?  T...

It's a joy to welcome Steve Roadhouse as our guest this week. Steve is the executive director of Gull Lake Centre, our denominational camp. He will be bringing an update on ministry there, as well as a sermon titled "Walking...Standing...Sitting" from Psalms 1:1-3. To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

As we've been exploring in our current sermon series, sometimes “ Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe ” are expressions we have come to believe as being true and accurate, when the don’t actually reflect God’s will for our lives. In a world where personal responsibility and hard work are seen as priorities or even virtues, we can come to believe “ God Helps Those Who Help Themselves .” Pasto...

We’re continuing in our new sermon series “ Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe ” this week. Despite the best of intentions, we may come to believe things are true that might not actually be accurate. In the most challenging or painful times in our lives, people may seek to bring us comfort and hope by suggesting “ Everything Happens For a Reason .” But is that actually true? Pastor Kent will be...

We’re starting a new series this week called “ Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe .” Throughout this series we’ll be taking a closer look at some of the things people may have come to assume the Bible says, when it may not actually say that at all. We’ll also consider how we may have come to interpret things the Bible does say in incorrect ways. We’re beginning this week with an introduction and...

We're concluding our brief sermon series titled “ Membership Matters ," as we've been seeking to reclaim a more clear sense of what it means to be a member of a local church. This week, Pastor Kent will be leading us in considering how church membership should be like a covenant, and encouraging us to commit to one another on a deeper level. To learn more about us, visit www.braemar...

Pastor Kent is back this week with the first in a two-part series titled “ Membership Matters ,” focusing on what it means to truly belong to and engage with a local church. This week we’ll be exploring the idea of membership in a broad sense, as well as how it relates specifically to churches. To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

Pastor Kent is wrapping up our “ Baggage ” sermon series this week. Now that we have recognized the negative things that we carry with us in our lives, and how we can become bogged down by what has happened to us in the past, what do we do next? We’ll be exploring that together in our sermon titled “ Cast Your Cares .” To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

We're continuing in our sermon series “ Baggage ” this week, and our sermon is titled " A New Thing ." Pastor Kent will be leading us in considering how our attachments to the past may be some of the baggage in our lives that is holding us back or weighing us down, particularly as God is seeking to make all things new.  To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

Pastor Kent is back and starting a new sermon series this week called “ Baggage .” A new year can bring opportunities for new beginnings and fresh starts, but we also need to pause and recognize the things we may be carrying that weigh us down. We’ll develop a perspective on this together, beginning with our sermon this Sunday titled “ Let It Go .” To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist....

We’re wrapping up our “Ugly Christmas Sweater” sermon series this week, as Pastor Kent considers what it means to have Ugly Actions . Everything we do in life, whether words or actions, needs to be done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. How is that going for you personally?  To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

So far, in our Christmas series " Ugly Christmas Sweater ," Pastor Kent has led us in exploring how our ugly thoughts are the root of what can then spill over into all areas of our lives, including ugly words, as we considered last week. But when our thoughts are ugly, that can shape how we view or treat other people, or how we may seek to get 'our own way' and create Ugly Moti...

Pastor Kent is continuing in our Christmas series " Ugly Christmas Sweater " as we have been exploring how our thoughts, words, motives or actions can become ugly, even at this time of year. Our words have power! They can either build someone else up and encourage them, or tear them down and cause real damage. This week we'll be considering how to use our words in godly ways in our...

You may not quite be ready yet, but we’re starting to talk about Christmas this week, as we begin our Advent sermon series “Ugly Christmas Sweater.” There are so many ways we can try to dress up the ugly things in our lives, and we’ll be exploring that together over the next four weeks, starting with considering our Ugly Thoughts . To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

Pastor Kent is wrapping up our sermon series “Unlikely Candidates." We all belong to a family and have people in our past who have shaped who we are today, and who we will be in the future. And despite our expectations or humble circumstances, God is always looking to partner with us to accomplish his plans for our world. In this episode, we’ll be looking at a pair of people who God used in a...

This week we’re recognizing “Solidarity Sunday”, a time when we celebrate the work God is doing around the world through our denominational missions organization, Canadian Baptist Ministries (CBM). It's a pleasure to welcome Dr. Suraj Komaravalli, CBM Team Leader in India, who brings a message of peace from John 16:16-23. To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

How could it be that someone could appear to be a follower of Jesus, seem to do all the right things, and yet ultimately still be lost? Join us to see what we can learn from someone who was welcomed into God's family but chose to throw it all away in exchange for their own selfish ambition. We're continuing in our sermon series "Unlikely Candidates" this week as Pastor Kent bri...

Pastor Kent is continuing in our sermon series “Unlikely Candidates” this week as we’re exploring lesser-known characters from the Bible. Through these stories we will see how God worked in and through unexpected people and how we can relate that to our own lives and circumstances. Could you use a little hope in your life these days? We'll be considering this week that despite challenging cir...

Pastor Kent is continuing in our sermon series “Unlikely Candidates” this week as we’re exploring lesser-known characters from the Bible. Through these stories we will see how God worked in and through unexpected people and how we can relate that to our own lives and circumstances. Sometimes God calls us to take actions or make decisions that may not seems popular or comfortable, but it's imp...

Pastor Kent is continuing in our sermon series “Unlikely Candidates” this week as we’re exploring lesser-known characters from the Bible. Through these stories we will see how God worked in and through unexpected people and how we can relate that to our own lives and circumstances. Our sermon this week is titled “Never Too Late.” To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com. 

Have you ever thought about the people God partners with to accomplish his work in the world? Have you ever felt too “average” or inadequate to make a difference? These are good things to consider! Join us as Pastor Kent launches our new fall sermon series and we begin to explore how God works through “Unlikely Candidates.” To learn more about us, visit www.braemarbaptist.com.