Brentwood Baptist

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 holds some of the most familiar words in the Bible, the ones many people know from the Byrds’ 1965 song “Turn, Turn, Turn” long before they know where they come from. In this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, Jay Strother and Brian Ball pick up that passage as part of the sermon series through Ecclesiastes called “Chasing the Wind” and ask what S...

In the first episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast’s new series through Ecclesiastes, Chasing After the Wind, Jay Strother and Brian Ball sit down to talk through Ecclesiastes 1 and the question that drives the entire book: if the wisest, wealthiest, most powerful man in history couldn’t find satisfaction in success, pleasure, or achievement, what makes us think we will?...

Brentwood Baptist is sending two more of our own into the world. Drew Benward is headed to The Point Church in Vancouver, Canada, and Elizabeth Harris is headed to Cape Town, South Africa, to serve with Living Hope. Both have spent years walking toward this moment: Drew since a high school mission trip to Chicago left him thinking, “I could do this for the rest of my l...

In the first episode of Purposeful Family, hosts Link and Elizabeth sit down to ask a question most of us don’t stop long enough to answer: what are we actually aiming for as a family? Link has spent over three decades in full-time ministry and 36 years married to Joel, raising three daughters. Elizabeth has been married to Seth for 16 years, is a foster and adoptive m...

Every June, news outlets run a fresh round of headlines about the Southern Baptist Convention, and every June, church members are left wondering how much of it applies to them. In this special edition of Sermon Notes, our senior pastor Jay Strother and executive pastor Brian Coates break down what the SBC actually is, a voluntary cooperation of roughly 47,000 autonomou...