Rehoboam answered the people harshly.  He disregarded the advice that the older men had given him and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men. Ephesians 4:15-16 Some of you know that the Presbyterian Planning Calendar prints readings each Sunday from...

How can we sing the Lord’s song    in a foreign land? Psalm 137:4 I hope you had a meaningful and worshipful World Communion Sunday weekend.  It was quite a busy weekend, including multilingual worship services, church gatherings, and a pancake breakfast.  I had the...

Then we your people, the flock of your pasture,   will give thanks to you forever;   from generation to generation we will recount your praise.  Psalm 79:13 Last Saturday, the Presbytery of San Gabriel installed Rev. Ming Yuan Hsu as pastor of Good Shepherd Taiwanese...

Jesus said, “Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor John 12:26 When I was younger, the cool Christians wore bracelets with the letters WWJD, for “What Would Jesus Do?”  The simple...

First on my items of the day is to remind everyone that the second and last Review of Minute Books and Registers for the year is coming up on October 5, 2019 at Calvary Presbyterian Church, South Pasadena beginning at 10:00 am that morning and expected to end by noon....

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. John 13:34 God calls us to love one another, and while sometimes this commandment leads us to do good things for others, at other times it leads us to...

Last week we included a couple of small staff-related announcements, and I wanted to expand on them today.  The first is the next step in Twila’s decision to move to part-time in 2020, and to focus on the bookkeeping function that has grown so large with the increase...

“Two are better than one because they have a good return for their hard work. If either should fall, one can pick up the other. But how miserable are those who fall and don’t have a companion to help them up!” Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 The Bible makes it clear again and...

  “Buenas noches,” said the voice on the other end of the phone. It took me a minute to recognize the polite and timid tone. It was Jose*, a young man whose family I have become close to at church. “Sorry to bother you this late,” he continued, “but I wanted to talk...