Word from Bear Creek
Brook McBride
Show overview
Word from Bear Creek has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 161 episodes. That works out to roughly 65 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 21st season.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 16 min and 26 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 36 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 54 episodes published. Published by Brook McBride.
From the publisher
A weekly podcast from Bear Creek United Methodist Church, Woodinville WA. Pastor Brook McBride
Latest Episodes
View all 161 episodesLook from Brook: The Mother's Day Message I Never Got to Preach
Justice is NOT Just Us
I didn't say yes but God kept asking
Look from Brook: Rev. Blue Jeans?!?
Peace Be With You
Look from Brook: Two New Stars
On the Other Side
Look from Brook: We Remember
What Kind of World Is This?
Look From Brook: Looking Back on 64 Easters
The Swing of Easter
S21 Ep 16Road Beyond the Parade: Palm Sunday
The parade is only the start...
S21 Ep 15Look from Brook: A Joy That Doesn't Wait for the Scoreboard
Opening Day always does something to me.There’s a crack of the bat, the smell of the grass, the feeling that maybe—just maybe—this is the year everything comes together.And when it does? When the ball clears the fence?That’s my kind of joy.Touchdown joy.Home run joy.The kind that shows up when the result goes your way.I’ve lived a lot of my life there.And then there’s Julio Rodriguez.
S21 Ep 14Cost of Love
Our North Puget Sound District Superintendent, Rev. Mark Galang, preaches on Jesus in the Garden.
S21 Ep 13Look from Brook: Cindy in the Middle
I grew up sharing a bedroom with my two older brothers. Three boys in one room is not always the recipe for peace.One morning I woke up to the sound of them fighting. Not just arguing. Really fighting. Voices raised. Bodies moving into “stand off!” position! High noon at the McBride corral! The kind of tension that makes a younger kid lie still for a moment and wonder what to do.I was scared.And if I’m honest, I was a little bit of a tattletale.So I went and told Mom. She brought my brothers in and had a sit-down with them. The lecture was delivered. Justice had been served—at least from my point of view.But then I had a new problem.
S21 Ep 12Beyond the Border
Pastor Brook looks at Mark 7:24-30
S21 Ep 11Look from Brook: Bread for a Breaking World
In these days it can feel as though the world is coming apart faster than we can hold it together.Wars rage across borders. Cities crumble under bombs. Families are scattered. The fragile structures that generations have tried to build—institutions meant to protect human dignity and restrain the worst instincts of power—are being tested and, in some places, deliberately torn down.
S21 Ep 10Faith in the Wilderness
In this look at Jesus' life we see how he was tempted in the wilderness just after his baptism.
S21 Ep 9Beloved: Named Before the Wilderness
Pastor Brook looks at Mark 1:1-11 and reflects on how we are named, "Beloved"
S21 Ep 8Look from Brook, Part 1: When Immigration Separates Families We Know
Here’s an op-ed piece i sent to seattle times today. Concerning a wonderful child i baptized and confirmed who is now being held by ICE. Tragic. It’s long but trying to share my Christian conviction for the world. Praying for Nathan’s family