Forty Days’ Journey

1 Kings 19:1-18 Today, we honor silence. Today, we prepare ourselves for silence. Yesterday, an estimated 800,000 protesters, and all of us who watched, were stopped in silence, for seemingly endless minutes of brave silence, foisted upon all of America by one high...

Easter Week Services

Good Friday, March 30, 7 pm Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, March 31 – pancake breakfast at 9:45 am Easter Sunday, April 1, 10 am – refreshments following the service

Forty Days of Spying

Numbers 13-14 I remember the year my father harvested the first crop from his new vineyard of Red Globes. It was a new variety no one had seen before. I was teaching at Fresno Pacific at the time, and I remember jokingly carrying a bunch of them on a branch with...

Forty Days of Waiting

Deuteronomy 9:7-19 When I was teaching at Fresno Pacific College, the college began a search for a new mascot. They had competed under the “Viking” mascot since early days, but one is hard-pressed to find any connection between the Vikings and the Anabaptist story....

Forty Days of Rain

Genesis 7:1-5 Forty Days of Rain Genesis 7:1-5 “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport…, the thrill of victory (music – duh duh duh duh) and the agony of defeat. The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC’s Wide World of...