We find ourselves in the midst of a tremendously contentious political season. Whether the contest that one looks at is local, state, or national it seems as though fear, and the absolute destruction ...  Read More

We have been thinking together, really since August, about what it means to be a missional church, working in the kingdom of God, living in a deep relationship with God and committed to living into Go...  Read More

It is easy to get discouraged these days as we think about the future of the church. Those that study these things tells us that only 20% of Americans report that they attend church weekly. What’s hap...  Read More

20 plus years ago, here at LNPC, a letter went out to the members of the congregation announcing a 2-year Bethel Bible Study training class led by Dee Hazen. I was interested but I was new to the chu...  Read More

No, you are not imagining things. With the exception of the last three verses – verses that speak to believers as the light of the world, as lights meant to shine out into the world – yes, this is exa...  Read More

It was a beautiful, cloudless, blue-sky day in April. School only had two more months and then Summer would become our new classroom; but that was still in the future - although it was becoming tantal...  Read More

Okay, let’s just say it. That was a ridiculously long second reading, wasn’t it? I mean, c’mon. Give us a few verses, tell us a funny story, a few religious thoughts, then let’s pray and get on with t...  Read More

It’s been decades since we first began hearing the term post-Christian nation.  My guess is that most Christian church attenders did not like hearing that our nation is entering a post-Christian Era. ...  Read More

My father came from a very poor family. His parents, my grandparents, came over from a part of northern Europe that was, until WWI, governed by the Germans. They came over in the late 1890s. He was a ...  Read More

I am thankful for a sermon written by the Rev. Dr. Don Aycock in which he writes about an experiment conducted with Processionary Caterpillars. Processionary Caterpillars are born from eggs planted on...  Read More

When I was a small boy growing up in Pacific Beach, an ocean front community just south of La Jolla and Bird Rock, before Pacific Beach became the crowded traffic ridden place that it is today, Pacifi...  Read More

School has started. Many of us are shaking off the easier pace of the summer and moving back into the schedules driven by fall, winter, and spring. Here in the church, we are no different. While the s...  Read More