by Carley Friesen | May 15, 2017 | News
Preface: At the conference I attended last week, Shauna Hannan challenged us with some new skills to involve the congregation in the preaching of the word. I decided to use one of her suggestions this morning. There is no title for this sermon in the bulletin. Your...
by Carley Friesen | May 7, 2017 | News
Psalm 150 This is the season for celebration in the northern hemisphere. Did you know that people who live on the other side of the world from us are bundling up for winter right now? Did you know that in Australia, Christmas is in high summer? But here we are in the...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 23, 2017 | News
6:30 – 9 p.m. in the Parlor, we will be watching the movie, “The Way.” We have been talking about Pilgrimage for the past couple of months in our times together. This is a movie about one man’s unplanned pilgrimage on “El camino de...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 23, 2017 | News
John 20:19-31 It took me some time, but Doubt has become a really good friend. I’d like to introduce her to you. Thomas introduced me to Doubt many years ago, back when we good church people looked down on Thomas. We were the ones Jesus blessed for believing without...
by Carley Friesen | Apr 16, 2017 | News
Luke 24:1-12 Jesus spent the last years of his life as a pilgrim. He said of himself that he had no place to lay his head. He sought out hospitality wherever he went, for him and for his friends. Sometimes he sent scouts ahead to find out if the communities in their...