A Sermon by Trevor Bechtel on March 24 2024 Good morning, We are in one of those dense periods of religious observance. We have arrived at the beginning of holy week, traditionally regarded as the most important week in the Christian religion. I wish you all a Blessed Palm Sunday. Read more…
A Sermon by Trevor Bechtel on November 26 2023 Good morning The nice thing about preaching about food on Thanksgiving weekend is that your sermon doesn’t need an introduction. You are all probably thinking about food already. And if you weren’t thinking about food on your way into church this Read more…
A sermon by Trevor Bechtel on Sept 24, 2023 in reference to Shalom CC’s Reparative Act
Sept 3 2023 – Trevor Bechtel provides a reading and reflection on “Heat is not a Metaphor” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
A Sermon by Trevor Bechtel on July 23, 2023 Good morning, Last Sunday at our worship in the park Jen lead us in a excellent service focused on some of the ways our beliefs might have changed. It was a rich morning for me. I enjoyed talking in a small Read more…
A Sermon by Trevor Bechtel on May 14 2023 Good morning, It’s appropriate for me to begin today with a story about my mother, on this mother’s day. The story is relatively simple, but it’s also a good staring point for these reflections.As a teenager–and I was a teenager well Read more…
A Sermon by Trevor Bechtel on April 30 2023 I’d like to start this morning by telling you the story of Lauren Olamina. Lauren lives with her family in Robledo, California. Her father is a baptist preacher and her biological mother died a few years ago a victim of a Read more…
A Sermon during Lent called Donkey Politics by Trevor Bechtel Donkey Politics have a long history in this country. Beginning when Andrew Jackson chose to take the “jackass” epithet hurled at him by his opponents as a badge of honor and weave it into his campaign, and then etched into Read more…