CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Wilmington CA is the state’s most polluted neighborhood, downwind of the Port of Los Angeles, ships that burn what is known as bunker oil, trucks that burn diesel and five refineries releasing plumes of by product, often burned off. I lived […]

When I was in my early years as a minister, I served a congregation that had met for 40 years in the basement of the local YMCA. They were fiercely lay led, what we call a Fellowship, and very suspicious of authority, including ministers. They had an ethos of fierce individualism, long a hall mark […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “Mrs. Tipton the sick boy’s mother opened the door to Ling Tan, the new caregiver. “Oh dear” she said, “you don’t look very strong.” Ling knew that as a hospice worker she would have to lift the young man often. “Oh, very strong” she replied. She met Mike […]

CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon In a little known part of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus is home from his wanderings and living the life of a king with his wife Penelope. Restless and bored, Odysseus decides to head back to the sea, to the life he knew […]

CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon A woman named Hannah was walking through a marketplace in Jerusalem. Suddenly the forty year old woman of eight heard someone shouting ‘Terrorist! Arab!’ A young Arab man ran past her and was tackled by a man right at her feet. […]

CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. I like to say I found my faith at the birth of one of our children. It was a warm night in August of 1984 and Francis was giving birth to our first biological child, it was a dangerous delivery at home. It had been 18 hours of […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon It is so good to see you all here again. I want to thank our amazing worship associates for leading outstanding worship for us this long hot summer. How many of you made it to a summer service? Let’s give our WA’s a round of applause! One of […]

Among the Kung of the Kalahari Desert, when a baby is born, the newborn is passed around the circle of women who attend the birth and each woman suckles the child for a moment, whether or not they are lactating, before the placenta is birthed, after which the baby is returned to her mother. As […]

It was a rainy day in April many years ago. About one hundred people were crammed into a tent deep in the woods. They had come to grieve the loss of a young couple’s first child. Olivia Rose was her name. She lived exactly 4 days, 3 hours and six minutes, before dying of viral […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “Carmel Point” by Robinson Jeffers The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses— How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing, Or a few […]