by Carley Friesen | Jun 16, 2019 | News
John 16:12-15 My friend Parker, who many of you know, lives on a boat. There are hundreds of other floating vessels which line the Columbia River – from float homes to inflatables, to fishing trawlers, to grand yachts. Parker’s boat is not a sailing vessel but...
by Carley Friesen | Jun 9, 2019 | News
Ezekiel 37:1-14 I want to start by relating some conversations I have experienced these last few days since I have been back in our building after a couple of weeks away. I overheard two women talking in the lobby. They were discussing the beauty of the building. One...
by Carley Friesen | May 19, 2019 | News
Acts 11:1-18 When I was in Denver a week ago, I heard a sermon from Anna Carter Florence, the Peter Marshall professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary. For those of you who remember Peter Marshall, those are big shoes to fill! Marshall was a...
by Carley Friesen | May 12, 2019 | News
Acts 9:36-43; Hebrews 10:23-25; 12:1-2 “The history of our church would be incomplete and much less wonderful were it not for the untiring work with their hands and the sacrificial living of the women. Out of their hearts have arisen the sweetest prayers that ever...
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...
