In the gospel Jesus feeds the hungry multitude and reveals the abundance of God. And in our first reading God invites all who are hungry or thirsty to receive food and drink without cost. It’s a day full of grace! The grace of a God who feeds us with the bread of life and sends us forth to give ourselves away as bread for the hungry. 

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

In today’s gospel Jesus offers everyday images that reveal to us the reign of God: a tree that becomes a sheltering home, yeast that penetrates and expands, a treasured pearl, a net that gains a great catch. Even as we seek the riches of God’s reign, the great surprise is that God’s grace finds us first.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

It’s an age-old question: Why is there evil in the world? In the parable of the wheat and the weeds, Jesus suggests that both grow together until the harvest. Which isn’t much of a comforting or satisfying answer. But maybe it points us to where we can find our hope in the midst of a complicated and confusing world.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

We believe God’s word is powerful. At least most of the time. But then there are those days when we’re not sure, and faith can be a struggle. So can there be good news in an unsettling story of a crazy farmer and his absurd farming techniques? Jesus thinks so.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

As Coquitlam celebrates its Pride Festival this weekend we join the party with a pride-themed worship service, featuring a wonderful message from ELCIC pastor Adam Snook. “The church’s story is a love story” he says. And so it is. The story of a  love that welcomes all into its gracious rest. And the story of a love that challenges all to grow beyond attitudes and behaviours that limit God’s vision for the beloved community.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

Welcome is one of the friendliest words in the English language. We all know how good it feels to be welcomed. And being welcoming has its rewards as well. Although in that case the rewards go far beyond what usually comes to mind for us. Our scriptures today want to push us to explore, “What are the real rewards of being welcoming?”

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

If you remember growing up and moving out of the family home, that might help you get inside Jesus’s heart-stopping words in our gospel today. And if you don’t maybe thinking about baptism will help. Truth be told, there’s no easy way of grasping Jesus’s instructions to his disciples in this text. But there is good news in there…somewhere!

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

It’s not money that makes the world go round. It’s compassion. Compassion like Jesus shows today to a crowd of people, helpless and harassed. And then he sends his disciples, and us, out with the same mission. But is there more to compassion than meets the eye?

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

We usually think of comfort as a good thing. But can comfort be confining? Even stifling? Even dangerous to discipleship? Maybe especially when concern for our comfort moves us to obsess about purity. Turns out the Pharisees are alive and well…and too often they are us! But our hope comes from a watery source.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

The doctrine of the trinity may not seem like the most appropriate scriptural theme for a day of action. But in our gospel Jesus names it as central to one of the most action-oriented passages of scripture…The Great Commission. And so as we celebrate the ELCIC Day of Action we celebrate the Holy Trinity as the source and goal of our life and mission as a church. Welcome to guest preacher and presider Pastor Marlys Moen.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.