by Carley Friesen | May 5, 2019 | News
Acts 9:1-20 In C. S. Lewis’s novel, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, pass through the wardrobe’s portal to find the kingdom of Narnia imprisoned under the spell of the White Witch. Aslan the lion, who is...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 28, 2019 | News
Acts 5:12-42 So this has been my week after the resurrection: the beauty of spring has come with such exuberance that I have been laid low! All those beautiful flowers and blossoms let forth an army of pollens hoping to reproduce more of their kind. But in me, they...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 21, 2019 | News
Luke 24:1-12 Resurrection. It happens all the time. Every day. How many of us catch our breath when the first yellow and purple crocuses pop their heads out of the soil, sometimes even through the snow? The laughing daffodils, the elegant tulips, the black branches...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 14, 2019 | News
Luke 19:28-44 Frederick Buechner, a favorite author of mine, has a Palm Sunday Sermon by the title, “The Things that Make for Peace.” In it, he has a very enigmatic comment: “The things that make for peace, that is what [Jesus] comes to give. We do not know these...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 7, 2019 | News
Isaiah 43:15-21 God is doing a new thing! That is what we want to talk about today. It is the theme of the passages for this fifth Sunday of Lent. There is a Jesus story which plays in the background is this theme: Six days before the Passover, Jesus is invited to a...
