by Carley Friesen | Dec 9, 2018 | News
Malachi 3:1-4, 6; Luke 3:1-6 It is the second Sunday of Advent. Tradition offers us the theme of “peace.” Then, in the scripture readings, John the Baptist shows up! From what we hear of John, he seems anything but peaceful! Malachi warned the people of his time that...
by Carley Friesen | Dec 2, 2018 | News
Jeremiah 33:14-16; Matthew 24, 1-2, 36-44 Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Hope is the first theme. Next week we get to peace, then love, then joy. But we start with hope. …We start with hope. Perhaps if we remember only that one little sentence, it is...
by Carley Friesen | Nov 25, 2018 | News
1 Samuel 8; John 18:33-38 I am a Thanksgiving, New Year and first Sunday of February football fan. This is when the big games happen. It is about who will win the rivalry games, or who will take home the big trophies. There is pride at stake, and no guarantees as to...
by Carley Friesen | Nov 18, 2018 | News
Romans 12:9-21 126 years ago this evening, forty or so people from the Mt. Tabor neighborhood gathered in Deardorff Hall, a lodge building at Glencoe Station, a stopping point near 47th Avenue for the small steam railroad which traveled what is now Belmont Street....
by Carley Friesen | Nov 11, 2018 | News
Matthew 5, excerpts Today is a day we have named, “Veteran’s Day.” It commemorates the armistice of World War 1, which ended one hundred years ago today, one hundred years ago this hour. When it ended, it was named, ‘the war to end all wars.’ No one could imagine a...
by Carley Friesen | Nov 6, 2018 | News
Wednesday November 7, 7 pm Bell Tower Concerts presents “Moon By Night” Jazz in all its unique variations – swing, bop, funk, Brazilian, Latin, as well as tasty originals. Exemplary technical skills combined with empathetic and soulful group dynamics...
