OK, Church Family, here we go! It’s time to reopen our Church doors for Sunday service! Our date is Sunday July 5th (at the usual time of 10:00) and there is a bunch of stuff you’ll need to know BEFORE you show up that day. Please stick with me here, read this carefully, and email me with any […]

In compliance with the “shelter in place” order from the San Mateo County Health Officer, we are suspending all church services until further notice. This is absolutely terrible, but we know that it is only temporary, and is the right move to protect the health and safety of our community. We’ll keep in touch and […]

Matthew 22:34-40, John 14:15, John 15:9-14, 1 John 3:16, 23 and 4:7-19, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Today, “radicalism” and/or “extremism” have become the buzz words for all that is wrong with religion and politics in this world. In attempting to define religious extremism we are often drawn to the forms of extremism that are easiest to […]

These days we are increasingly held to account for the words we use when addressing others. Words matter and words can hurt. Using a derogatory name or word for someone can intimidate shame, insult, wound, marginalize or in some way diminish another person. You really can’t argue with that. There is so much in the […]

It seems to have become fashionable to “not know”. I have recently read many blogs and listened to many interviews with high (And low…) profile Christians who seem to define their faith in terms of what they don’t know or don’t understand. They struggle with their faith publicly in songs, books, blogs, social media and […]

Do not so reduce your definition of worship that it becomes conditional. (I only worship with songs I like, I only worship when I feel good, I only worship when God is blessing me, etc…) Can you pray to God right now and say to Him; “My Lord and Savior, My Creator, My Heavenly Father, […]

Recently I was reading a great book by Eric Metaxas called; “Seven Men: And The Secret Of Their Greatness”. One of the men profiled in the book is Karol Wojtyla, also known as Pope John Paul II. There was one passage that caught my attention and helped focus my thinking on a current trend. When […]

As I conclude teaching through the book of Job I have run into, and have long before run into, the age old argument; how can a God Who is supposed to love allow innocents to suffer? The problem begins with the question. This question begins with “XYZ” while failing to address “ABC”. Can we solve […]