Prince Of Peace Church of the Brethren - Sacramento, CA

06/06/2026

Join us for worship this Sunday at 11am as we discover what can happen when you cast your nets on the other side of the boat.

05/28/2026

Some people go this way. Some people go that way. Some people try to go both ways. Still, some people choose to go another way. Join us this Sunday as we explore this other way, as envisioned by the early Anabaptists and founded on the teachings of Jesus.

05/27/2026

Won't you be the neighbor?

“The Good Samaritan”
“One does not have a neighbor; I make myself someone’s neighbor” -Paul Ricœur

This parable from Luke 10 is considered one of the most well known in the gospels. Like many other Christians, I have heard this story hundreds of times. However, it wasn’t until adulthood a mentor gave me a more significant understanding of this story.

When an expert in religious law, a lawyer, asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”, Jesus answers him with this parable. A man traveling down a well known dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho is ambushed by robbers, who steal his possessions, and beat him leaving him “half dead.” Two members of the lawyer’s own religious class pass the man by but the one who does stop is an outsider, a Samaritan, who takes pity on the man, caring for his wounds, and takes him on his donkey to a nearby inn. He is the true neighbor. Jesus tells them to go and do likewise. The Jewish listeners would have winced because at the time Samaritans were considered a member of an excluded group, an ‘other’. Jesus is giving the lawyer a lesson in God’s law of love.

In his short essay on this parable Paul Ricouer notes that the Gospel would completely condemn the modern world. Jesus is telling us that we don’t simply HAVE neighbors. We MAKE ourselves someone’s neighbor. This is a very anti-modern attitude. Through a modern world of fences, borders, screens, social media, ring cameras, automobiles, etc. we are increasingly living in an age of a dehumanized world of abstract, anonymous and distant relationships. Many often using, religion, politics or “the law” to distance themselves from the wounded and most vulnerable people in our communities. Immigrants, refugees, single mothers, the unhoused, and those in prison. Like all of the parables, Jesus is using this one for the church to imagine the kind of community it is called to be. The parables are meant to be lived. If you want to love your neighbor you are going to have to go make yourself one.

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05/23/2026

Join us this Sunday for worship as we continue our exploration of our Anabaptist roots and seek God's kingdom together.

05/22/2026

"The river is flowing. We are in it."

05/09/2026

"America, do you love me?"

A hard and challenging question.

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05/07/2026

Join us for worship this Sunday, 5-10-26, at 11am, as we continue to explore "The Bare Essentials" of "Being Brethren" and learn all about "Being the Good News," another core conviction of Anabaptism.

05/06/2026

05/01/2026

This Sunday, 5-3-26, we explore a core foundational belief/conviction of the Anabaptists that holds major important and influence for the Brethren of today. That belief/conviction being to follow Jesus and to do so seriously. Following Jesus is where we begin.

04/29/2026

Starting this Sunday, we begin exploring what Being Brethren is all about by digging deep into its roots and learning about the Bare Essentials of Anabaptism.