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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Jul 15, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Jul 4, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Jun 17, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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pastorfloyd8
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Apr 13, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Apr 3, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Mar 6, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Rev. Floyd Thompkins
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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