On Palm Sunday Jesus enters Jerusalem riding on a borrowed donkey. It fits a gospel pattern of transformative moments. A Samaritan woman comes to the well for water and goes home a preacher. A child breaks into the inner circle of discipleship and is welcomed. Tax collectors and debtors sit at the table together and… Read more Transforming Presence of God in Your Life
March 17, 2013 I Corinthians 11: 23-25 Rev. David Hansen Pine Valley Christian Church A Banquet of Liberating Love I want to begin by telling you how much I enjoy being here and being your pastor. You all really love this church and you love each other and that makes Pine Valley a good place… Read more A Banquet of Liberating Love
William Sloane Coffin was a prophetic civil rights leader, a co-founder and president of SANE/FREEZE (the largest peace and justice group in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s), and a prolific writer. He wrote in Passion for the Possible, “Redemptive action is born of vision.” He elaborated, “You can’t think straight with a… Read more Our Lenten Journey
Luke 15: 11-32 March 10, 2103 Pine Valley Christian Church Rev. Dr. David Hansen Finding Our Way Home The parable of the Prodigal Son, also known as the Parable of the Waiting Father, is one of the best known of all the parables of Jesus. It speaks to deep places in us because it is… Read more Finding Our Way Home
Pine Valley Christian Church was started in the winter of 1966. That’s right. We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary our church in 2016! The pioneers who started PVCC spoke of the gathered community and the scattered community. The gathered community came together to study and worship. The scattered community went into the world to… Read more MESSAGE FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR
Friends, The strength of PVCC is its members, the people who care deeply about the life of this wonderful fellowship. Our creativity and care were on full display when we met on February 10th after worship to discuss the church’s Human Rights Manifesto and the Pine Valley Mission Statement. Lorrie Beck has compiled all the… Read more MESSAGE FROM OUR INTERIM PASTOR
This week marks my three month anniversary with PVCC. I started on Oct. 14th, although I did not lead worship until November. I thought that one way to mark our journey is with these words taken from a prayer for the church written by Reinhold Niebuhr, “O God, grant us grace fitly to be joined… Read more Three months together
I am watching the snow blanket the earth with much needed moisture as I write this on Monday afternoon. As I watch the big flakes fall gently, I am thinking of Wendell Berry’s poem “What We Need is Here”. Celebrating and honoring a Creation-centered spirituality is a fine way to welcome the New Year. Promising to… Read more Message From the Pastor
In our Advent meditation booklet, “Jesus, Beloved Son,” Henry Nouwen reminds us that we are called to make time to pray not because we feel like praying or because it gives us great insight, but simply because we want to be obedient. We want to listen. Nouwen traces the word listen to its Latin root,… Read more Message from the Pastor
Last Sunday in our time of prayer a member of the congregation remembered Rosa Parks. Ms. Parks started the Montgomery Bus Boycott when, on December 1, 1955, she refused to give up her place on the bus. When I went to her website, I learned that in 1943 this same Rosa Parks had been forced… Read more Advent Thoughts