Your Place at Jesus’ Table
Your Place at Jesus’ Table Stories Around tables in Luke’s Gospel “Blessed are you, O Lord God, King of the Universe, for you give us food to sustain our lives and make our hearts glad.” – A Daily and Early Prayer of the Church (Adopted from an Ancient Hebrew Prayer) Think about one of the […]
Reset: Post-Pandemic Faith, Family, Friendship & Flourishing
Reset: Post-Pandemic Faith, Family, Friendship & Flourishing Have you ever watched a gopher emerge from a gopher hole? First, the tentative head-bob. Now you see him, now you don’t. Second, said gopher gets more comfortable and scurries out, only to quickly retreat. Another head-bob or two. Then, it becomes a full-bodied experience. He is out! […]
How Big Is Your God?
How Big Is Your God? Lenten Lessons Learned in Suffering From the Book of Job | Lent 2021 Calamity strikes. Pain sets in. Suffering is your plight. Palpable evil invades. A child dies. A war escalates. A mother of three succumbs to cancer. A dad walks out the door and never looks back. These are […]
Who Are We?
Who Are We? Lessons from Peter on the Church Table of Contents Where Are We? What were your great-great-great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents doing 143 years ago? That year, Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church was planted in a rural, farming community. Long before the Bay Miwok Native Americans inhabited the golden hills surrounding Diablo Valley. Four Mexican land […]
What Are You Waiting For?
What Are You Waiting For? Advent Lessons from the Prophet Isaiah And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was […]
What Makes the World Go Round?
What Makes the World Go Round? Lessons from Colossians, Stewardship 2020 “And that’s what makes the world go round.” We have all heard this sentiment expressed in some form or fashion. Usually, it is “money makes the world go round,” or for the less cynical and more romantic it is “love makes the world go round.” A […]
The Chains of Freedom
The Chains of Freedom Fall 2020 “Twenty centuries ago an itinerant tentmaker was tossed into prison for creating a public disturbance. There he spent considerable time dictating a letter that might have taken up a dozen sheets of stiff, scratchy paper. Today few people would recognize the name of the Roman emperor at the time […]
Re:Emerge: Who Are We Becoming?
Re:Emerge: Who Are We Becoming Summer 2020 The evening Shelter in Place went into effect, I said to my three, teenage daughters: “Life will never be the same!” This COVID-19 Global Pandemic, much like other events in modern history, from WWI, to the Spanish Flu, to the Great Depression, to WW2, to the Civil Rights […]
Conversations with Jesus
Ever sat down and had a conversation with Jesus? Perhaps a strange question to pose! Most of us in the church believe Jesus to be God-become-human, the second person of the Trinity, and the one that provides access into relationship with this Triune God. This access happens via the crucifixion, where Christ became, not only […]
God’s Story, Our Story
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