Friends Church Calgary Weekly Message
598 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is a recording of the weekly Sunday Message presented by Friends Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Toxic Faith
April 21, 2024 10:30 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Throughout history, religious beliefs have been a double-edged sword, offering solace and guidance while also igniting conflicts and division. They’ve inspired acts of compassion, charity, and unity,...
Would Humility Create Peace?
April 14, 2024 10:30 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen In recent weeks, we’ve delved into various scenarios shedding light on the What Ends Wars. From realizing that peace seldom emerges solely from victory to grappling with...
Spiritual Responsibilities
April 07, 2024 15:31 - 40 minutes - 28 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Watching the innocent casualties of war is hard. People being forced to flee with very few belongings, often grieving the loss of loved ones. The suffering is...
An Invitation to Freedom (Easter)
March 31, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis & Vince Klassen If you think about the foes you’ll wage war against in your lifetime, none of them will likely be as powerful and potentially as...
Raise All Boats
March 24, 2024 10:30 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen After our discussion last week about how victory doesn’t necessarily lead to peace, we’ve been feeling somewhat disheartened. So, how do we actually foster peace? Our current...
Watch Out for the Zealots!
March 17, 2024 10:30 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Cathy and I have been married for over 33 years. You would think by now that we would never argue. Lol. There seems to be this subconscious...
Pleasure Denied
March 10, 2024 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSpeaker: Trevor Dreher Recently, I heard a tale of an affluent elderly couple with a longstanding desire to witness the vibrant colors of autumn out east. Despite having the financial means...
Developing a Pleasure Ethic
March 07, 2024 20:32 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis We’ve spent the last two weeks explaining where much of the toxic messaging around pleasure has come from – at least within the Christian tradition. Hint: we...
Vitality through Physical Pleasure
February 25, 2024 10:30 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen Pleasure can be a complex subject, especially when delving into the realm of physical pleasure, which may make some uncomfortable to discuss. Questions often arise, such as,...
In Pursuit of Vitality
February 19, 2024 10:30 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis “Everyone dies, but not everyone truly lives” ~ William Wallace Over the years I’ve had a conflicted relationship with pleasure. Don’t get me wrong, I love to experience...
What does my conception of God, say about me?
February 11, 2024 20:33 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis “When we talk about God we actually talk about ourselves only with a megaphone.” Karl Barth Over the last month, we’ve been exploring different conceptions of God...
Bounce
February 04, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen As we have walked through different conceptions we can hold of God over the last few weeks, you start to realize that things can look a little...
God Has Left The Building
January 28, 2024 10:30 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen I had a moment, giving someone a tour of the temple that was fascinating. They walked into the sanctuary with me and I pointed out all the...
“That Can’t Be You, God”
January 21, 2024 10:30 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis A couple of Sundays ago I shared some stories of my disappointment and disillusionment with God when important prayers went unanswered. My Superbeing conception of God led...
“Dear God, are you there? It’s Me…”
January 07, 2024 10:30 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis “Sir/Maam, there’s been an accident…”. It’s a phone call no one wants to get. In moments like this panic can set in. A desperation that can have us crying...
New Years Eve
December 31, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen This Sunday is the last day of 2023. It’s been a year for sure. And now, we have the opportunity to start thinking about next year. What...
We Three Kings
December 17, 2023 10:30 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Last Sunday we explored our triggers. Those instinctual negative reactions we can have to the insensitive or irritating things being said or done around us. Looking back...
How to Fix your Holidays
December 10, 2023 14:45 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen “The hardest thing you’ll ever do is admit that you’re [part of the problem]” I was reading an article recently that had my paraphrased quote as the byline....
Disagreeing Beautifully A conversation with a Rabbi just back from Israel
December 03, 2023 10:30 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen CHANGE OF PLANS – We were going to start the Christmas Series this week, but we had another opportunity to engage in Disagreeing Beautifully that we couldn’t...
MAID & End of Life Care
November 26, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis **Content Warning** The content below could be disturbing to those who are sensitive to the subject matter. Please use caution in reading further. This week on Disagreeing...
COVID-19 and Vaccination – An interview with a Naturopathic Doctor
November 19, 2023 10:30 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis & Nina Lewis-Larsson This week we’re interviewing a doctor who was heavily invested in helping people navigate the pandemic and vaccinations, by focusing on balancing both risks...
Disagreeing Beautifully – An Interview with Local Drag Performer – DevaDave
November 12, 2023 10:29 - 45 minutes - 32.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen This week on Disagreeing Beautifully, we are going to have a discussion with a Local Drag Performer to start to learn more about Drag, people who perform...
An Interview with a Parent of a Child who came out as Trans before Puberty
November 05, 2023 10:30 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen This week on Disagreeing Beautifully, we are going to have a discussion with a parent of a child who came out as trans when they were in...
Disagreeing Beautifully
October 29, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Chances are, we’ve all encountered those conversations when two opposing views collide and the discussion goes South. It seems there’s a lot of it these days… over...
2023 Water Awards
October 22, 2023 10:30 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen & Jeff Jarvis We are going to take a week and tell you some stories of people who have Taken Water in some impactful, beautiful and sometimes...
Creating Heaven on Earth
October 15, 2023 16:14 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen There is a story about Jesus being asked, “What should we pray about?” and he responded, “Pray that earth would look like heaven”. What does that mean...
Actions that Matter
October 08, 2023 10:30 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen & Jeff Jarvis Have you ever thought much about the endgame of your spirituality? What is it you’re hoping to achieve by making spirituality a priority in...
Being Honest and Something More
October 01, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen & Jeff Jarvis Church for People Who Don’t Fit Church. Nice slogan. How does a church actually do that? Help people who don’t fit church suddenly, magically,...
Finding A Spirituality That Fits
September 24, 2023 10:30 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis For years we’ve said that Friends Church is a community for people who don’t feel they fit in traditional churches – but what does that actually mean? ...
A huge fish story
September 10, 2023 10:30 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis We get asked why we insist so often on wrestling with stories and passages from the bible. Some argue that a collection of writings, thousands of years...
I’m not a Big Mac
September 03, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen Our earliest ancestors were scared little creatures. And rightly so, everything around them seemed to be trying to kill them. The animals, the weather. It was all...
What is it about Jesus?
August 27, 2023 10:30 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis It’s not lost on me that Christianity, as a religion, hasn’t had the greatest reputation nor track record with those who sit outside its walls. I’ll be...
Maui Fires – What do we do with the Chaos of the World?
August 20, 2023 20:08 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen The Maui Fires of the last week have been devastating! Over one hundred dead, many more still unaccounted for, and the property destruction is almost beyond imagination....
Leaving Seahaven
August 13, 2023 10:30 - 47 minutes - 65.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis I recently re-watched “The Truman Show”. A movie about a guy named Truman (Jim Carrey) who, from birth, was the main character of a reality show and...
Purpose from our Suffering
August 06, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen What’s the purpose of our lives? Why are we here? How do we find meaning for our lives? Knowing where to focus our lives to find meaning...
Updates Are Available (Pt. 2)
July 30, 2023 10:30 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis & David Hill Last week, we talked about the vitality of evolving spirituality but it should be noted that spiritual change rarely comes without a cost. Often...
Updates Needed
July 23, 2023 15:31 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis “Jeff, you’ve changed!” This is what a person wrote to me in an email a number of years back. She was concerned — specifically that I changed...
What’s Our Purpose – Samson Pt. 2
July 16, 2023 10:30 - 34 minutes - 47 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen I once helped a lady with a flat tire on the side of the road. She’d been there for 2.5 hours. No one had stopped for her,...
Samson’s Mother
July 09, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen I was with a friend recently and they asked me, in the context of this series on stories, what’s up with the story of Samson in the...
What’s your stories?
July 02, 2023 10:30 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSpeaker: Trevor Dreher What’s your stories? (deliberately terrible English) Do you think about moments in your life that you were happy, sad, angry, calm? What’s the story surrounding those moments?...
“Why do I keep doing that?”
June 18, 2023 10:30 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis The other day I was out in the backyard after mowing the lawn and Cathy came out and asked me why some patches of lawn that I...
Ned Flanders had it Wrong
June 11, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen There is this famous interchange between two characters on the animated series The Simpsons that points to a piece of Wisdom from our tradition. It goes like...
Distracted
June 04, 2023 10:30 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis In 2020, after watching the documentary, The Social Dilemma, I devoted a Sunday morning to exploring the relationships we have with our electronic devices. I knew at...
Wise in Relationships
May 31, 2023 09:17 - 41 minutes - 5 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen As we start to move our thinking into the summer season, with the weather warming up and summer plans on the horizon, we want to explore a...
Removing the Thorn
May 21, 2023 10:30 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis So, we’ve spent enough time discussing ways we avoid our emotional wounds and resentments. This week we’re exploring the actual process of facing them. This critical step...
Don’t Forgive…Yet
May 14, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen I was out with a family member recently, someone I hadn’t seen in a while but I know them well. As I was driving up to their...
Ruminating
May 07, 2023 10:30 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBSpeaker: Jeff Jarvis Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking about ways that we avoid dealing with our resentments. We can resort to blaming, we can shame ourselves, we...
Herd Morality
May 06, 2023 05:35 - 39 minutes - 5 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen We have defined Resentment as what is left of the hurts of our past that weren't dealt with. And Resentments, often without our awareness, tend to take over our lives and cause us to act crazy. Destroying the things we love and value. Trainwrecks! Last week we looked at how Blame keeps us from learning about, and learning from, these Resentments. We focus on others instead of owning our part and asking, what is the Resentments inside of me that's causing that to...
It’s Always Me
April 23, 2023 10:30 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen We have defined Resentment as what is left of the hurts of our past that weren't dealt with. And Resentments, often without our awareness, tend to take over our lives and cause us to act crazy. Destroying the things we love and value. Trainwrecks! Last week we looked at how Blame keeps us from learning about, and learning from, these Resentments. We focus on others instead of owning our part and asking, what is the Resentments inside of me that's causing that to...
It Wasn't Me
April 16, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBSpeaker: Vince Klassen I sometimes watch with weird fascination when some deep part of myself, the wounded part, the hurt part, the angry part, takes over my life. It's like...