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What should you do when you feel stuck in life?
Pastor Kaloma Smith on Isaiah 43:19: what God told people in exile, how to notice what he is doing now, and small steps for when life feels stuck.
Kaloma Smith
1 day ago3 min read


Exodus 5 Devotional: It Got Harder Right Before God Moved
Pharaoh took the straw and kept the quota. What keeps you standing until God moves?
Kaloma Smith
3 days ago8 min read


It Got Harder Right Before God Moved: Faith, Worship, and Standing Firm
There are moments in life when doing the right thing seems to make everything worse before it gets better.
Kaloma Smith
3 days ago5 min read


The Loneliness Algorithm: Why You Feel Alone in Silicon Valley
One in six people on earth is lonely, and Silicon Valley builds the apps. Why the campus, the chatbot, and the algorithm cannot be a friend, and what the church is that they are not.
Kaloma Smith
3 days ago6 min read


Does God answer a mother's prayer for her child?
What Mark 7:24-30 teaches parents about praying for a child when the answer is slow, from a Mother's Day sermon at UAMEZ Church.
Kaloma Smith
4 days ago3 min read


Does God accept me as I am?
Pastor Kaloma Smith on 2 Corinthians 12:9 and the prodigal son: why God's grace meets you where you are, before you clean up.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 83 min read
THE GOD WHO HEARS
God heard Israel's cries for generations before the bush ever burned. He hears yours.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 69 min read
The God Who Hears: Does God Really Hear Our Prayers?
There are moments in life when it feels like our prayers are going nowhere. We cry out, we wait, and nothing seems to change. But the story of Moses and the burning bush in Exodus 3 offers a powerful reminder: God sees, God hears, and God responds.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 65 min read


How to Find a Church in Palo Alto When You're New to the Bay Area
New to the Bay Area and looking for a church? Three things that matter, how to try a church without pressure, and what UAMEZ is, plainly.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 63 min read


Why should I go to church?
Pastor Kaloma Smith on Romans 12: why church is a body you belong to, why your gift matters, and how people show up for each other.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 53 min read
Going Back to Church After a Long Time Away: What I Found When I Walked Back at 28
Pastor Kaloma Smith left church at 18 and came back at 28. What the fear of returning is really about, what actually happens when you walk in, and how to take the first step.
Kaloma Smith
Oct 23 min read


Amazing Kids: What Happens During Service, Age by Age
What your child does during the Sunday service at UAMEZ: Little Lambs for kindergarten through second grade, Promised Kids for third through sixth, check-in with printed tags, and who is in the room.
Kaloma Smith
Sep 294 min read


Finding Your People: What the Book of Ruth Teaches Us About Covenant Relationships
What if finding your people has less to do with who shows up for you and more to do with who you show up for?
Kaloma Smith
Sep 285 min read


Finding Your People
Most of us are waiting to be found. What if you're the one somebody's waiting on?
Kaloma Smith
Sep 288 min read


Anxious, Lonely, and Not Sure About Church: Start Here
If you are anxious or lonely in Silicon Valley and not sure church is for you, this is where to start. What a church can and cannot do, what we actually offer, and one small step to take this week.
Kaloma Smith
Sep 223 min read


The Full Story Behind Our $400,000 Grant
A $400,000 National Trust grant will save the Little House, restore the courtyard, rebuild the trellis, and repaint every building at UAMEZ Church. The full story, with renderings.
Kaloma Smith
Sep 227 min read


Real Community Starts Here
Are you letting anyone actually see the real you? Real community starts right there.
Kaloma Smith
Sep 227 min read


The Journey of Discovery
Five days in Luke 15 on the journey of discovering who God made you to be and what to do next.
Kaloma Smith
Sep 158 min read


The World Cup "Prophecy"
Was the World Cup winner predetermined, or was Someone else guiding it the whole time? I invite you to take 5 Days to get to know the Person behind it all.
Kaloma Smith
Jul 209 min read


What Is Salvation?
How many of us have spent years working for something God already gave us? Sis. Lori Patton-Johnson answers it in four questions: what salvation is, how you get it, who gets it, and how you keep it.
Kaloma Smith
Jul 138 min read


This Is Our God
We've only heard what others told us to expect from Him. But who is God? Exodus 34:6-7 answers it in His own voice.
Kaloma Smith
Jul 68 min read


God Breathed
The Bible was written by real people in real crisis. That is the point, not the flaw.
Kaloma Smith
Jun 2911 min read


Who Gets Left Behind in the AI Age? A Christian Response to Growing Inequality
Drive 101 and you would think AI has won. Four in five American businesses are not using it. Luke 14 on the people the optimization leaves out, and three practices.
Kaloma Smith
May 116 min read


Faith in the Age of AI: Understanding Your Divine Worth in a Digital World
Before any algorithm scored you, God paused and decided on you. Week one of Faith in the Age of AI: why your worth cannot be computed, from Genesis 1.
Kaloma Smith
Apr 296 min read
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