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 […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon As a boy growing up I used to imagine a world in which all the other people in it simply vanished. Their cars were still running, the power plants still humming and music still playing, all without another soul on the planet. All alone I dreamed that I […]

At age 30 he had a vision. It was time to leave home, to wander in the wilderness in search of answers to life’s greatest mystery. Why are we here? Is there a God? Why must life end? For many years he wandered trying different spiritual practices until one day he decided he had wandered […]

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon I first heard of Steve Lopez during my early days in California. Steve is one of the LA Times most prolific and profound columnists and I followed him religiously. We were living in LA when Steve met Nathaniel Ayers, a brilliant Julliard trained violinist whose career had been […]