WEEKLY PASTOR UPDATE

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What an amazing fourteen years of God gathering us closer together as a community, inviting us into deep...

The final months of this election season and the results we know so far show us many things - one being that America is deeply divided. S...

To the Beloved Community at YVPC, I asked Matt if I could write a letter to you in anticipation of our family’s transition to a new worsh...

I type this letter through tears, but need to share with you that after 14 years serving as pastor of YVPC, and weeks of wrestling in pra...

On Sunday, we studied and reflected on Hebrew peoples’ journey out of Egypt through the desert and into the promise land. It was a time d...

“When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 So many gathered around that there was no longer r...

Jesus says to follow his teachings is like building your house on rock - when the rains and winds and storms of life come you will surviv...

The uncertainty of this season continues without an end in sight. It is easier to make it through a difficult situation when we know the ...

3 AM – Woken up by strange flashes of light, look out my bathroom window but can’t figure out where it is coming from, probably just a br...

Patient Trust—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to ...

3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 “Bl...

I was about halfway through my trail run in Joaquin Miller Park when I heard loud voices. At first I was unsure if people were playing ta...

Jesus and his disciples were always getting into trouble. Talking with the wrong people, eating with sinners, creating community with out...

21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elde...

“Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb...

The final phrase ‘weep with those who weep’ seems especially appropriate as we seek to be faithful followers of Jesus this week.

Feels like the conversation is happening all around us these days- front page of the newspaper, on most radio stations, on the evening new...

Before the shelter in place orders, we were beginning a new sermon series looking at Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5-7, commonly called the ...

I keep hearing stories of how you all are sending letters and postcards and text messages and making phone calls and dropping off meals a...