Dear Friends, California is being inundated by a series of wet storms conveyed by a phenomenon called an atmospheric river flowing warm air into the state mixing with colder air from the North Pacific. It is said these are the strongest storms in ten years and there is a lot of flooding, downed trees, and […]

Dear Friends, There is always an urge to say something profound at the turn of the year. It is more profound to say nothing about your intentions and resolutions for the year, but instead listen for what God may be telling you. “For surely I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord, […]

Dear Friends, We might have had the Messiah come to fight the bad guys, settle the scores of good and evil and put things right once and for all. Our stories, plays, movies and political rhetoric express the desire for a strong hero. It was prophesied of Jesus Christ that he would upend the proud […]

Dear Friends, Heaven and earth came together on the night of Jesus’ birth in a dramatic manner not experienced since the earliest days of recorded history. Shepherds tending their sheep in the fields outside of Bethlehem were confronted by q shining angel with a message that God the Messiah had come to earth as a […]

Dear Friends: I learned to sign my name from my father. Poor motor control gave me a shaky childhood scrawl that embarrassed me. I would see Dad’s name on documents around the house and was awed by the beauty of his signature. His “H” uncurled from it’s initial upstroke into a long roller-coaster plunge and […]