West Bridgewater Community Church

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on Job 28 about wisdom. True wisdom cannot be discovered on our own. We need God to reveal true wisdom to us. Wisdom is the art of living well, of living a life that matches reality, a life that lines up with God's Word.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on the book of Job, chapters 22-27. He focuses on the question, "Where is God?" Why does God seem hidden? Why does God seem absent when we're hurting?

Job asks a very important question: "Where Then Is My Hope?" Where can hope be found in a world in which everyone dies? Where can meaning be found? Pastor Brian Watson tries to answer those questions as he preaches through the second round of dialogue between Job and his friends.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on Job 4-14. These chapters show Job in dialogue with his three friends, who accuse him of sins he didn't commit. How do we respond to other people's tragedies? How do we respond to our own? When bad things happen to us, we may feel that God is punishing us. How can we be in the right before God?

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on Job 3. He shows how Christianity recognizes the pain and suffering in a fallen world and how Christianity invites lament and even wrestling with God. This way of grieving is compared with other views on pain, suffering, and evil. Job lamented his pain and wished he was never born. So did the prophet Jeremiah. Jesus was a man of sorrow who cried and knew what it was like to suffer and lament. Christianity teaches us that it is okay to grieve and lament, and it also shows how we do that in faith and in hope that God will ultimately fix everything.

Pastor Brian Watson begins a sermon series through the book of Job. He shows what happens in the first two chapters, which give us some indication of why there is evil and suffering in the world and how we can respond to it.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on Luke 10:25-37, which includes the famous "Parable of the Good Samaritan." Jesus tells us to love God with everything and love our neighbor as ourselves. The problem is that we don't do that. But Jesus is the true Good Samaritan who rescues us and enables us to love God and others.

Guest preacher Ron Bridge presents a message on Matthew 6:25-34. He urges us to seek God's kingdom and to trust God.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message about Jesus' famous encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. He shows that when we try to make anything other God our greatest desire, we will feel empty. Only Jesus and his gift of the Holy Spirit satisfy the soul.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a sermon based on John 3:1-21. This passage shows us that not everyone knows exactly who Jesus is, that we need to be transformed by God to know Jesus, that Jesus is our only hope, and that in order to become Christians we must come into the light.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message based on Nathanael's skeptical question, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Can we really believe that God's answer to the world's problems came out of a corner of the Middle East two thousand years ago?

Pastor Brian Watson preaches the conclusion to our study of the book of Ruth. Boaz marries Ruth and they have a child, who is to Naomi a redeemer and a restorer of life. This story indicates how God will restore his creation through Jesus. It reminds us of the story of Christmas.

Perhaps the best way to learn about Christianity is to learn about the message of Christmas. The best way to learn about that is to study one of the Gospels, the four biographies of Jesus that we find in the Bible. In John’s Gospel, Jesus is referred to as “the Word” and as light. What does this mean? Pastor Brian Watson preached a message on John 1:1-18 at the Christmas Eve service at West Bridgewater Community Church.

Pastor Brian Watson talks about redemption in the third chapter of the book of Ruth, in the Bible, and in our lives. What would you like restored in your life? What would like to be bought back? The story of Ruth is a story of redemption, and it points to the larger story of redemption in the whole Bible, a story of how God is restoring a broken world, "purchasing" people for himself through Jesus.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message on Ruth 2. He focuses on three words that sum up what God is doing in this chapter: favor, providence, and kindness. He also shows how Christianity accounts for why we should be generous and kind to one another, and how a competing worldview (naturalism) does not.

Pastor Brian Watson preaches a message based on Ruth 1. The Bible is very honest about the dark side of life. In the Bible, people wrestle with God during these times. But even in the middle of darkness, there are signs of God's kindness.

Pastor Brian Watson asks and answers the following questions: What is evangelism? Who does evangelism? How do we do evangelism?

Pastor Brian Watson discusses why our lack of thankfulness to God is such a problem, why we should be thankful, and three ways to practice thanksgiving.

Pastor Brian Watson looks at the "one another" commandments in the New Testament. Christians are called to love one another, live in harmony, serve one another, encourage one another, and even correct one other, among other things. Listen to learn what real love looks like.

Pastor Brian Watson explains what the Lord's Supper is by looking at Luke 22:7-20 in the context of the Passover.