April 18, 2024To our CKPres Family,Ministry work in the 21st-century American church is an uphill battle, especially in places like the Pacific Northwest. One of the ways I remind myself of God's pres...  Read More

April 14, 2024During this Sunday's sermon, I read a poem I wrote about Psalm 24. Here is the poem for you to read again:Psalm 24"To the east he stationed winged creatures wielding flaming swords to gu...  Read More

April 4, 2024To My Beloved Congregation, For the last five years I have been blessed to be the Children's Ministry Director. These years have been some of the best of my life. After many hours of pray...  Read More

October 17, 2023Friends at CKPres-Hopefully by now you have seen Ty’s letter. To draw on a word he used in his letter, this is one of those Dictionary-definition examples of “bittersweet.” Ty has brou...  Read More

October 16, 2023To the Saints gathered at Central Kitsap Presbyterian Church,It has been my great privilege and blessing to be in communion with you all these last four and a half years. I’ve said it ...  Read More

On Sunday at the beginning of the sermon I gave the “homework” to the congregation to go and read three books (which really are just individual chapters) from what is known as the Old Testament Apocry...  Read More

I've had a few folks ask me if I'd share the poem I wrote and read at the Annual Congregational Meeting. Here it is!How many trees were felledfor the making of this place?And where did they come from?...  Read More

I remember being in 4th-grade Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma and how our teacher brought out her flannel graph. In the 1950s, a flannel graph was a visual learning tool. It consi...  Read More

I was immensely helped by Doug Sweeney’s magnum opus, “Edwards the Exegete”. Through every chapter and every page, wading through the exegetical life of Jonathan Edwards, I was drawn into a sense of a...  Read More

What was it like for Sarah to be the wife of that famous (infamous) colonial pastor, Jonathan Edwards? What was it like to sit every Sunday, with your 11 children, in the “assigned pew” facing the con...  Read More

by Josh LottImagine, for just a moment, that we discovered sentient life on another planet. No doubt, this would bring up lots of questions. Can we communicate with these creatures? Are they rational?...  Read More

Over the coming days on our blog we will be hearing from some of the speakers who will be sharing at our Psalms Conference on June 11th. Today’s entry is from Jim Davis, who will be leading the breako...  Read More