Author Archives: Elise Feltrin

This week – Easter!  A huge thanks to StoryCorps which provided the beautiful story of resurrection.

We concluded our Lenten series on Psalms this Sunday with a Psalm that seems to fit the day – Palm Sunday.  We unpacked the reading and singing if this song in relationship with the protest nature of the anti-triumphant entry. Our song this week to conclude the meditation was by Rend Collective:

This week our Psalms took a drastic turn from the ones of lament, to the one’s of thanksgiving and praise. Up first, Psalm 67, and with it, a reminder that we do not have a monopoly on experience: The video that ended our time of meditation was:

This past Sunday we took on one of the most difficult Psalms, and maybe even texts in all of scripture – Psalm 137.  With a little bit of context and some help from a brave volunteer and world cup highlights we looked at the raw honesty of the Psalm.  Here’s the sermon: We finished off …

Continue reading “Opinions Expressed: Sad, Then Mad – March 15, 2015”

This week we entered into the depths of the Psalms with a psalm of lament. Here we see the Psalmist find themselves increasingly naked in the sight of God where it is revealed that God is privy to the dark places too. The song to lead us out of meditation this week was by Leonard …

Continue reading “In Mind. In Place. In Time. – March 8, 2015”

In our second week of Lent, we took a look at Psalm 1. It is easy to get hung up on some of the language in the Psalms so we turned to an incredible poster and act of resistance by a group called the Beehive Collective: www.beehivecollective.org. In many ways it embodies the Psalm – …

Continue reading “Trees by Streams & Psalm 1 in Poster Form – March 1, 2015”

For Lent, we are reading the Psalms- a profound, though sometimes confusing book of songs and poetry written thousands of years ago.  Week 1 we looked briefly at Psalm 68, but spent more time setting the stage for the Psalms and how to read them.  Like psalmist who was expecting God to show up in the …

Continue reading “Into the Same Experience 3000 Years Earlier – Feb. 22, 2015”

In our final week of stewardship, we talked about physical resources.  We talked a little bit about money – and how we use it to run our church.  But, more importantly, we talked about our gifts being set aside and used to rejoice – so we used the symbol if the feast.  Enjoy – oh, …

Continue reading “Piles of Chickens & Sacks of Potatoes – February 15, 2015”

At the beginning the service this week, each person was asked to sign a suit (the white kind they used when they do mould removal.)  In the sermon, you’ll hear laughter as one of our gracious members dawns the suit to visualize what it mean for us (each a different part) to be one body …

Continue reading “Wall-E, Hitmen and The Distinctive Body of Christ – February 8, 2015”

Jesus comes into the city and the mood is tense and multiple groups of people are trying to entrap him which is where we find this great story where Jesus says (according to the King James Version of the Bible) “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and render unto God what is God’s.”  Those words …

Continue reading “Caesar’s Silly Little Coin – February 1, 2015”