Author: gkoskela

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on May 10, 2015) Anyone here taken the written driver’s test lately? I thought I’d start today with a little DMV quiz. Take a look a this. Assuming these cars arrived at the same time, which of the cars …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on May 3, 2015) Barb Mitchell and her team usually have flowers up front on Sunday mornings. But when she saw the topic today was about marriages that last, she thought a 50th anniversary balloon would be a good …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 26, 2015. During the message, I asked for and received many excellent suggestions from the group. So unfortunately here, you miss those, and instead read some of what I prepared and didn’t share.) Jesus had a way …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 19, 2015) Remember last week I told you I usually come up with a little paragraph and the bible text we are using for a particular Sunday? Remember how I said sometimes it changes a lot when …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 12, 2015) Whenever I consciously think about it, the huge variety of ways that the bible talks about God overwhelms me. The spectrum goes from huge, cosmic God on one end…the God who creates everything, who parts seas, …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 5, 2015) One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that there is always a deeper layer of meaning to discover in these huge moments in Jesus’ life, these holidays that truly celebrate holy days. I …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on March 29, 2015) For those of you who’ve given up chocolate, or coffee, or Diet Coke for Lent…your long suffering is almost at an end! Today is Palm Sunday, when we remember the celebration as Jesus entered Jerusalem, before …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on March 22, 2015) For those of us who have been in the church and around Christians for a long time, I think we tend to forget how strange and foolish the central part of our faith sounds. This season …

I ran out of gas last week. As these things usually go, it was a series of wrong choices. The warning light went off on the way to the hospital, but I wanted to get there ASAP for the visit. I forgot about getting gas …