Love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, who is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:35-36 As has been said way too...

So you have pain now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. John 16:22 Last week I shared about the great love and joy that I witnessed at the wedding of my friends. Sadly, this last week I have been...

Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;   you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach,  the restorer of streets to live in. Isaiah 58:12 I can tell that I’m getting older, because I can no longer do multiple...

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans...

I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. Philemon v. 10 During the height of the COVID pandemic, we all felt like we were living the phrase “building the plane while flying it.” Because of the uncertainty and...

“How can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye?” Matthew 7:4 Last weekend, thirteen members of the Synod of Southern California and Hawai‘i traveled to Chula Vista Presbyterian Church on the way to walking...

Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received. 1 Peter 4:10 I’m thankful to Wendy Tajima for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself via this weekly reflection. My name is Amy Marmol, and I’m the...

. . . you shall make this response before the Lord your God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.”                                          ...