by Carley Friesen | Aug 4, 2019 | News
Hosea 11:1-11 Hosea is one of the most emotional of the prophets. For Hosea, the prophecy is his life, and Hosea’s own pain seeps through every word! He is torn. He loves and he is betrayed. And still he loves. So it is with God. Hosea’s life tells this story. We...
by Carley Friesen | Jul 21, 2019 | News
Matthew 6:25-34; 10:1, 5-20 People often ask about our business plan for Taborspace. I have to say, it was kind of weird – we never had one! It is kind of embarrassing, because it isn’t done that way in our culture. We did have elements of the plan, but nothing...
by Carley Friesen | Jul 14, 2019 | News
Galatians 5:1,13-16, 22-23, 25; John 15:1-8 It is summer! What a perfect time to talk about fruit. Having grown up on a fruit farm, earning my education by working in the fruit – from planting to hoeing to packing to pruning to picking to canning, freezing and...
by Carley Friesen | Jul 7, 2019 | News
Proverbs 3:5-7; James 1:5; Matthew 18:19-20 Perhaps you have heard the adage, “Only believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.” While we don’t want to go through life as cynical skeptics, there is truth to the idea that looks can be deceiving. On my...
by Carley Friesen | Jun 30, 2019 | News
2 Kings 2:1-14; 2 Peter 1:3 We live in a time of epochal transition. Our world has changed so completely in a generation – about 40 years! Let’s just go back to the US bicentennial in 1976 – that year Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple, Inc. And...
by Carley Friesen | Jun 23, 2019 | News
Genesis 11:1-9; 1 Corinthians 12:1, 4-13 It was the world after the end. How many generations had it been, and yet it was fresh in the lives and culture of the people. There had been a disastrous flood and everything was destroyed. Only a few seeds of life survived....
