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A Clean Slate
The justice system should not be institutionalized meanness.

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Feb 14, 20223 min read
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Turn Up The Volume
Where social ideologies of racial, religious and sectarian prejudices flood our media and the conversations around us, Oh God turn up the...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Oct 14, 20212 min read
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Hope and the Breath of God
This is an excerpt from a book of short mediations that I am currently writing. -Floyd Thompkins Edited by T. Lai Hope peeks out from...
pastorfloyd8
Sep 27, 20212 min read
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Can I Get A Witness
Edited by T. Lai There is a difference between ignorance and willful ignorance. Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge. It can be...
pastorfloyd8
Aug 13, 20213 min read
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Oppression and the clobber scriptures
Edited by T. Lai As an African American Christian, I and others have been the object of the misuse of scriptures. Scriptures have been...
pastorfloyd8
Jul 15, 20214 min read
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Worship on the 4th of July
With the sound of fireworks in the background, the smell of barbecue filling the atmosphere, and the relief of vacations looming in our...
pastorfloyd8
Jul 4, 20211 min read
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The Child is Not the Problem
Edited by T Lai Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking Isaac. 10 Therefore she said to...
pastorfloyd8
Jun 17, 20213 min read
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Graduation is also about Appreciation
This Sunday we will invite you to share the names of graduates in the chat and we will read them out loud. But today we invite you to...
pastorfloyd8
May 26, 20212 min read
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These all Died, Not having received the Promise
Written in consultation with the pastors of Marin County ( Rev. Dr. Ronald Leggett, Bishop Johnathan D. Logan, Sr, Rev. Marcus Small, and...
pastorfloyd8
May 17, 20213 min read
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Learn from Peter: Confront Complicity, Take Courage, and Believe
Edited by T. Lai Think about Peter, Jesus’ disciple. Think of the women who braved ridicule to be the first steadfast evangelists (Heed...
pastorfloyd8
May 7, 20213 min read
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Heed the Witness: The Work of Evangelism
Edited by T Lai “The women’s story seemed like nonsense.” (Luke 24:11) The gospel writers wrote that the women who tended to the tomb,...
pastorfloyd8
Apr 22, 20213 min read
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BE A WITNESS
Be a Witness of Courage! I may have too harshly judged the disciples because they did not show up at the crucifixion. But now– watching...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Apr 13, 20213 min read
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Jesus is Seen in Us (No, this is Not Heretical)
As we gather in the shadow of Easter, we have to admit that the image and message of Jesus has morphed into something that many of us do...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Apr 3, 20214 min read
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The Truth Matters About Racism
It is a sad spectacle to witness a nation engaged in the exercise of assessing the events in Atlanta, GA as racist or not. His veracity...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Mar 23, 20212 min read
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God Stands Within Us
I get it now. I now understand how a church can reject a person because that person does not conform to its ideal of the human life...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Mar 6, 20214 min read
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Worshipping in a Pandemic
We are being suffocated by lies, deceit, political incompetency and spiritual hypocrisy. We are being drained by the effort that it takes...

Rev. Floyd Thompkins
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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