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Mission Statement:
Our purpose is encouraging, loving, and supporting a diverse group of people who gather to deepen their experience of the inner light of God. We direct this inner light outward in service to others to share the love of Christ.
**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
We believe that God’s Light is inherent within all people. There are no exceptions.**
Category Archives: Messages
Faith, Hope, Love and Encouragement
Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians declares that every bit as much as faith, hope and love are to be observable characteristics of a Christian community, so is mutual encouragement. In times of anxiety and strife Christians cannot go it … Continue reading →
Grace – shared by Robert Wiese
For October 30, 2011, Robert Wiese prepared a message on Grace. Robert is Presiding Clerk of Spokane Friends Meeting. On this web site it precedes the message shared on November 6 by Nick Block. That message focuses on Jesus’ parable of … Continue reading →
Meaningful Lives
On the Sunday before Paul and Martha Puckett move from Spokane to ‘the Manor’ in Newberg, Oregon Spokane Friends, while reluctant to see them go after so many years of meaningful service to the Meeting, took the time to reflect on … Continue reading →
What Obedience Looks Like…
I guess I’m guilty of judging a book by its cover. A couple of months ago I decided to not attend to a conference on preaching because the grabber copy said that it was about preaching to a ‘sin hardened … Continue reading →
What Obedience Looks Like
I guess I’m guilty of judging a book by its cover. A couple of months ago I decided to not attend to a conference on preaching because the grabber copy said that it was about preaching to a ‘sin … Continue reading →
Ya’ll Come Now, Ya’ Hear…
Frankly, there are people today who don’t like Jesus’ parable. They reject the universalism caught up in the word ‘everyone’. That the kings slaves filled the wedding hall with all whom they found, both good and bad just seems like … Continue reading →
“…and start all over again…”
One author said that Genesis is bad science and bad history but great theology. Of course the fact is that the early chapters of Genesis isn’t history at all, it is pre-history. Untold thousands of years of human development are … Continue reading →
Vocational Counseling
It has only been in recent decades that we’ve come to speak of vocation in a secular way – like vocational schools or the job we take to pay the bills. We treat it like a synonym for occupation with … Continue reading →
To forgive – divine.
It seems like an uncanny coincidence that a parable about radical forgiveness is our lectionary text for today, this the tenth anniversary of the attack by terrorists on the Pentegon and the World Trade Center. We all might prefer a … Continue reading →
Defiled, Outcasts and Aliens…
Matthew 15 and Isaiah 56, each in their own way, have a similar message. The story in Matthew makes me celebrate what a great student of the Torah and the Prophets Jesus actually was. It also reminds me how much … Continue reading →
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