Brentwood Baptist

On this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, host Jay Strother and Brian Ball pick up Revelation 19 where Sunday’s sermon left off, then go somewhere the series didn’t have time to go: Revelation 20 and the millennium. Chapter 19 opens with heaven standing open, and this time it stays open. With Babylon fallen, heaven erupts in the only hallelujahs in the New Testament...

It’s easy to enjoy our kids when everything is going well. The harder season is the one no one pictures when they first become a parent: the boundary-pushing, the poor choices, the same disobedience showing up again and again. When we’re tired and worn down, our instinct is to pull back, manage the behavior, and keep the peace until things settle. But a meaningful rela...

On this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, host Jay Strother and Brian Ball pick up where Sunday’s sermon on Revelation 15 left off and cover the chapters we didn’t have time to preach. Jay’s advice before they dive in: buckle up, and remember that the plain things are the main things. Revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ, a book written in worship, to worshiping ch...

Daryl Murray grew up in a Christian home, but his faith became his own as a teenager on a youth choir tour to New York City. A few years later, during a summer internship near Times Square, he told a homeless man at a church door to come back the next day for breakfast. That small moment stayed with him and opened his eyes to how easily believers can walk past people i...

A lot of listeners have been asking how to study Revelation on their own, so on this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, host Jay Strother and Brian Ball start there before turning to Revelation 12 and Jesus in the Land of Dragons. Jay compares Bible study to a day at the ocean. Some people sit on the beach and admire the water, some wade in, and some put on scuba gea...