Category: worship & messages

Preparing for this message was a really good experience. It’s actually the last time I’ve preached; I’ve had several weeks not preaching for a variety of reasons, and it’s been good to give some time to other things, and to hear from others. I’m looking …

One of my favorite bible passages about listening to Christ is Acts 8, with Philip and the Ethiopian. That served as the focus for worship on September 30. Here you go…

On September 23, we tackled community for the last time. It was also our first “Yearly Meeting Sunday”, a day where all the meetings in Northwest Yearly Meeting focused on our connection with each other. We faced east, west, and north, praying for the meetings …

On September 16, we took our second look at “A Growing Community.” This is one where my notes in the introduction are a little sketchy. To fill you in a little, I told a story about a time when my family was at the beach …

Back on September 9, fresh from returning from India, I began speaking about our community’s vision statement. We want to be A Growing Community Listening to Christ Changing in the Spirit Living Out Love I think it’s important for us to talk and think often …

Back from camping, which was very relaxing and good…looking ahead to India in 9 days…much to do, but in a good place. Yesterday in worship, many people spoke helpfully out of the silence. I spoke from 2 Corinthians 4:7-12. God places the treasure of himself …

After American Idol, but before camping, we looked at “Part 2” of conflict in worship. Here’s what I shared.

Yearly Meeting has begun…which means yesterday in our worship services, many Friends from far and wide joined us. It was good! Here’s what I shared.

Over the last few months, we’ve been journeying together as a church through the book of Hebrews. I’ve really enjoyed studying and speaking from different portions of the book. On May 6, we began the journey by looking at the first three verses. In the …

Yesterday, we spent some time reflecting on our experiment of observing Lent as a community. I asked us to consider whether some of how God worked in us through Lent might need to continue in to “normal” life.