Glendale Church of the Brethren

Mark 12: 5b to 17 “Bring me a denarius and let me see it.” 16And they brought one. Then he said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?” They answered, “The emperor’s.” 17Jesus said to them, “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And [...]

Christine loves Point Mugu’s waves because of the singularity of the sensory experience, you can feel concussion of the waves in your chest.   I love Point Mugu’s waves (especially at sunset) because they (the waves) focus my “monkey brain” on a singular experience that so wonderfully releases all my frantic worries. Yet, Point Mugu is good for at [...]

Being a pastor means learning to ride the waves.  Sometimes you are very very busy as a pastor and then there a lull times.   When I was a young pastor I used to see the lull times as an opportunity to plan even more work.  Then when the busy times returned I was pushed [...]

“Trout Fishing” by Eunice Lamberton 1873 Give me a rod of the split bamboo, a rainy day and a fly or two, a mountain stream where the eddies play, and mists hang low o’er the winding way, Give me a haunt by the furling brook, A hidden spot in a mossy nook, No sound save [...]

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—  in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the [...]

“ As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.” To me, the 21st street looks [...]

I have been blessed to live in the south west corner of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan,  a Western Suburb of Chicago, the far north east corner of Kansas, in a Cove that time forgot in Central Pennsylvania, a river town in Southwest Ohio, and in Southern California.   Each of these divergent places had a specialness [...]

Disney Ducks (see below) “Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was not dressed as one of these.” Matthew 6:29 Recently I have the privilege of going to Disneyland here in Southern California.  It is a wonderful place and the Disney Company has done a first rate job of creating a fun place [...]

Today, I feel lead to remember all the loved ones who have passed on.   I was so blessed to know them. Take some time out time to say a prayer of gratitude for those who touched your life, and acknowledge that you miss you miss them now that they are gone. Peace, Pastor John

II Corinthians 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God. [...]