Glendale Church of the Brethren

Point Mugu at Sunset on Friday, November 5th, 2010 Point Mugu has always been a “thin place” for me.  I call it a “thin place” because I frequently feel very close to God when I am there.  It is a place where heaven and earth intersect.  When Christine and I went there last Friday evening [...]

I guess it is only human nature to try to make rational the irrational, to try to make some kind justification for an act of terror.    Here on this 9th anniversary of 9/11 I am reminded that every act of tragedy is (by definition) senseless. The simple goal of any act of terror is [...]

Sanctification is a big, kind of troubling word that is actually pretty simple to understand.  It means that we, as Christians, belong to Jesus!  My sermon in on three real life aspects of what is means to belong to Jesus (Sanctified).

Well, guess I could have stayed around home and watched basketball – which can be fun!  However, I wanted to exercise and get out in God’s beautiful creation.  This Lizard was sunning itself on a tree and greeting me on my hike in the Verdugo Hills.  Brothers and Sisters God’s beautiful creation awaits you – [...]

Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. Luke 9:28-29 William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia write we need to be about [...]

Every time I go out for a morning hike in the Verdugo Hills I try to find something beautiful to photograph/contemplate.  Today I as blessed to get this wonderful picture of a “blue” bird?  Can anyone share what kind of “blue” bird this is?God has something “beautiful” for us to see/contemplate each day.  Have you [...]

On my morning hike in the Verdugo Hills I spotted a deer for the first time!  It reminds me of the first two verses of Psalm 42 “As the deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.  My soul thirsts for God,  the living God.”Whenever I have gone one hikes [...]

“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then [...]

  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”  I [...]