Author: Gregg Koskela

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on July 20, 2014) Mauri Macy used to have us sing familiar hymns, but we would sing them to an alternate tune. Years ago, I had developed this elaborate picture in my mind of how he did this. I …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on July 6, 2014) At the beginning of June, we started this series on the purpose of the church and the purpose of worship. We’ve been trying to set out some of the foundational beliefs we have about church. …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on June 29, 2014) For the last couple of years, I have been wrestling with what I am beginning to think is one of the fundamental divides in Christianity. It comes out in a variety of ways, but I’ve …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on June 22, 2014) For several weeks, I’ve been trying to build a case. We’re in a series where we are looking at the purpose of worship and the purpose of our church. In times of transition, it’s important …

(Message given June 15, 2014 at Newberg Friends Church. We had great discussion at the end in both of the services.) Any of you ever spend time doing mazes?  I was obsessed with these things in like fourth and fifth grade. I got to the …

I fell in love with cathedrals when we were in Europe last summer. It was an unsettled love, I grant you, because every time I was in one I was conscious of the corruption in the church and the misuse of wealth it took to …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on June 1, 2014) 136 years ago on this very day, our church officially began-on June 1, 1878. That is a long time ago! Much has changed in that time. Anybody know who was president in 1878? [ASK] Rutherford …