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...
by Carley Friesen | Mar 31, 2019 | News
Luke 15:1-10 Remember “Seeker Services?” They were all the rage when I was in seminary. The idea was to invite people to a church experience that they would recognize from their everyday lives, going to movies, concerts, or shopping malls. Everything was done to make...
by Carley Friesen | Mar 24, 2019 | News
Isaiah 55:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 It is well known that what we look for in another person, we usually find. Say we meet a person, dirty and disheveled in front of the grocery store. We naturally think, “Here is another homeless person, waiting for a hand-out.” We expect to...
by Carley Friesen | Mar 17, 2019 | News
Genesis 15; Luke 13:31-35 Two life-long friends have felt tension growing between them. Late one night, the tension explodes into yelling and throwing things, running away from each other, brokenness, isolation. How often have I desired to gather you as a hen gathers...
