Posts from July 2017

Posts from July 2017

Intercession

This Sunday, Pastor Christopher will build on last week’s teaching on “suffering with Christ” with the recognition of the difficulty of seeing the breadth of suffering in our world today.

Groaning

Continuing our series, The Apostle’s Tale, we explore the problem of selfishness and examine how we might turn more toward the Divine in hope.

Freedom

This Sunday we begin a new series that parallels Paul’s letter to the church of Rome alongside Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale – a disturbingly dystopian vision of religion and power gone toxic.

Video Announcements for July 09, 2017

This year’s All Church Picnic will be on August 20! Be sure to check your Beach Breeze for more information, and don’t miss this exciting event! The San Diego Pride Festival will be held NEXT WEEKEND July 15-16 this year! PB UMC will participating in both the Pride Parade on Saturday, and in staffing a booth at the Festival both days. Want one of those neat PB UMC T-Shirts from the last festival? Volunteer and if you don’t already have…

Sojourn

Dear friends… July brings a particular beginning that is significant to many United Methodists, and the recent conclusion of the California-Pacific Annual Conference makes this even more definitive – particularly for those who participated in the Conference. As your Pastor here at Pacific Beach United Methodist Church, you may know that my “church membership” does not reside at PB UMC or any other local church. My membership resides at the Annual Conference, and it is through our Bishop’s leadership at…

Legacy

This Sunday of the series wraps up the story of Abraham and Sarah and turns to the story of Isaac. Are all the problems over? What is the legacy left behind?