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The Ashes of the Palms from Palm Sunday

We just had our Ash Wednesday worship service at Trinity this week. It turns out that the traditional way to produce the ashes for the worship service is to save some of the palm fronds from the previous year’s Palm Sunday and burn them to create the ashes. There’s something deep and true about it…  … Continue reading »

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Speaking Spanish and the Children of God

I had an interesting experience yesterday and it got me thinking… I took the boys to a McDonald’s with one of those “play place” areas with tubes and slides to play in. Well, as always seems to be the way, as soon as we got our food and were ready to eat, Johnny had to … Continue reading »

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Live via podcast

Hey, all!  You can listen to my preaching now without even coming to West Sacramento!  (Though it’s still better live, and you also get to hear and sing some great music.)  Visit our church podcast. And if you do, please leave a comment or two on there.  The silence is deafening.  

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God’s Provision – Still in Progress

It felt like a message from God. “Don’t worry, Steve. We’ll get through this together.” I look forward to telling you how it works out. Continue reading »

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