Glendale Church of the Brethren

  “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”  I [...]

“If I speak in the tongues of mortal and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I [...]

Psalm 19:1-4a How clearly the sky reveals God’s glory! How plainly it shows what he has done! Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.  No speech or words are used, no sound is heard; yet their message goes out to all the world… All of my sunset [...]

Saturn:  Seen from almost a billion miles away, through the ice and dust particles of the rings, Earth appears as a tiny, bright dot to the left and slightly behind Saturn.  Quote from a New York Times Article:  “To my mind.” Dr. Porco said, “most people go through life recoiling from its best parts.  They [...]

Proverbs 1:32-33 “For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them; but those who listen to me will be secure and will live at ease, without dream of disaster.”  Yes, bad things do happen to good people! Proof of the righteous suffering is found throughout the Pslams, the Old Testament narratives, Book of [...]

Proverbs 1:28-31 “Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their [...]

 Proverbs 1:20-23 Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice.  At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:  “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?  How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?  Give heed [...]

“Wisdom cries out in the street;in the squares she raises her voice.”Proverbs 1:20  “Get your Gladiolas folks! Only four dollars for a bunch, or you can get three bunches for ten dollars – what a deal!”  I heard this loud refrain from a grower every Saturday morning at the farmers market back in Dayton, Ohio.   [...]

Photo by John Jackson, July 23 2009, Point Mugu © I normally have a sunny, fun, optimistic, curious, bold and imaginative view of life.  Yet there are times when I can get feeling cranky, a little sad, and maybe even go on a rant. Usually this happens when I have been trying to do too [...]

Photo by John Jackson, taken at Point Mugu on July 23, 2009 © Psalm 31:1-3 I will praise the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boats in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. O’magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt [...]