Thursday, October 08, 2020

Updated for 2025

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 Hi all... we keep Migrating... I am doing a lot of stuff on TikTok now as Jaw1LA or #jaw1la Do find me there and eventually I will figure o...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Home Sweet Home

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Dear Friends, December 2019 Greetings from Pomona, CA. We never expected to move to Pomona. Or to buy a house.  But here we are...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The Church as a Safe Place for a Fellowship of the Broken (which is all of us).

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Birthday Breakfast Bible Study on II Peter 1:3-11 a Real Experience of Fellowship for us... I am concerned that we have developed a cult...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Short Reflection on helpful disruptive cooperatives with and for the poor.

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Toyohiko Kagawa is a historical mentor of mine.  I reflect here on one of his endeavors... If you would like to know more about him I wou...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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When I was young. I learned a lot about sales from two groups. Amway & Cutco. Both taught me about the value of a social network and s...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

Holiday News from J&J in LA

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  --> Dear Friends,                                                                                     December 2013 Ad...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Reading for the Grand Story...

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Dear Friends, This coming year (2014) I am planning to be paying attention to the Narrative / History in the Bible while following the 1 yea...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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Why I am a Christian, Part Three It is one thing to choose to follow Christ. It is another thing to encounter Christ in the midst of fol...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

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Why I am a Christian #2: In my journey in the Christian Faith I have encountered a love that is much bigger than my own heart. An ocean...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

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I am going to start a simple series of posts of "Why I (john tw) am a Christian". I am not aiming for the popular apologetics ...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Reflections on the Movie "After Earth" moving towards the real question of Character Development.

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I Went to see the Movie After Earth with Andy A Hernandez and another friend. For the younger folk there was too much talk between fat...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

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My favorite passage of scripture on Character development is II Peter 1:3-11 .  It is worth noting that much of what is popular out in cul...
Monday, February 25, 2013

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Download Here  News Letter  It is very exciting to have reached a goal of turning the need to afford our own textbooks for school into th...
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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Newsletter for The close of 2012

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Dear Friends,                        December 2012 The people walking in darkness have seen great light; On those living in the land of...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

McMannus & Morgan

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We Partner with McMannus and Morgan .  The LAIC Book Collective has a book store in their store as a way to support this Historic Paper sto...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

A Rare Book Opportunity

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A Rare Book Opportunity:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140653387278 When can you support both a local historic a...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Music & Wisdom to be shared...

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Thinking a lot about the roll of music in the life of Faith. Also thinking about II Peter 1:3-11 & Ephesians 3:14-21. Will be gettin...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Baptism 77 and the healing in the family grows deeper...

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Roxana did not dare to believe for many years that her mom would change.  Chris, her husband continued in faith to witness and serve his mot...
Friday, April 01, 2011

A short reflection on the Nture of Spiritual Experiences and Traditons

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Luke 9 ... Reflections from the one year Bible reading for today... " 32 Peter and the others had fallen asleep. When they woke up, th...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Dec. 2010 Newsletter

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Dear Friends, December 2010 ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

IC Sandimus from San Francisco / A call to practice more silence before God.

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Here is a short musing on my time with the SF IC Sandimus Team. Let me say that I am glad for the time that I had with them. It is theirs ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Story of Stuff

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I am finding that there is a growing desire among my friends to find an alternative to this narrative. THE STORY OF STUFF ... AND many of ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Tire Swing... Check this out...

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My Friend and Colleague Alastair Rundle has figured out a way to turn some old tires into new useful Tire Swings for the youth in our neighb...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Disaster Preparedness...

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Well... I have some work to do... and I intend to begin to post some of the basics here... Resolve after a day workshop in Los Angeles:
Friday, June 04, 2010

The Practice of the Presence of God

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Here is Kevin Ha's sermon referencing Brother Lawrence's Book, "The Practice of the Presence of God" . One of my favorit...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

My Birthday Party

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Hello Folks, Well it is coming soon, John Tiersma Watson’s May Day birthday. This year his Birthday is on a Saturday. As always, there is a ...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Jaw1LA

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I am committed to sharing my life with a network of young people in Los Angeles. First they asked me to join MySpace (which I hardly use a...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Our Christmas News Letter. Please note Prayer requests.

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Dear Friends, December 09 “Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, To give light to th...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Two New Links

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I have added two new Links to my Blog, My Friend EVE and her Website: EarthCaringArt.com and my friend and companion in ministry Catherine...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Cook it, Bag it, Ship it... Good Coffee for a Good Cause.

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Some of us are former meth cooks, some of us are former gang members, and some of us are young pastors. And some are a mix! All of us have b...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Travels down Memory Lane: Rez Band

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I am preparing to share my life story with my team mates. I am remembering today how wonderfully influential was some music that came out o...