Friends Church Calgary Weekly Message
This is a recording of the weekly Sunday Message presented by Friends Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Episodes
125 episodes
What Do You Do With Someone Unforgivable?
Speaker: Vince KlassenWhat do we do when we're confronted with something unforgivable?Not the small stuff. The real thing. The kind of act that makes us wonder if some people are just… evil.Our answer matters. Not in...
What Have I Become?
Johnny Cash made Hurt famous—but it was written by Trent Reznor, a 30-year-old caught between two versions of himself: the person on stage and the kid alone in his room. And in that tension, he asks a question most of us quietly carry:...
Something Feels Off
Ever catch yourself thinking, “I just need to get through this week… then life will feel better”? Or “once that thing changes, then I’ll finally feel okay”? This week, we’re going straight at that feeling - the quiet sense that something’s off,...
Living Life Abundantly
I had a bit of a moment a few weeks ago. I went through the Bible and looked up every single time the word “sin” shows up… and what I found honestly surprised me.Not in a good or bad way – just… not what I was taught.I didn’t find...
Your Life, Recharged - A Trip to and from Mexico
We just watched something incredible happen. 21 people from our community showed up in Mexico and, together with local families and donated resources by you, built a home that didn’t exist before. This Sunday, we’re going to celebrate that stor...
An Invitation to Love our Immigrant Neighbour
Speaker: Vince KlassenHappy Easter!It's the biggest celebration in the Christian calendar — and this year, we're centering it on the teaching Jesus said mattered most: Love your neighbour.Simple idea. Surprisingly hard to l...
How Do You Respond When You've Failed?
What happens inside of you when you fail someone you actually care about? Not the small stuff—the real moments, where you try… and it still isn’t enough. Something shifts. Stories form fast—defensive, protective, extreme—and in the moment they ...
Do We Need Other People? Or Go It Alone?
After last week’s talk, I had a bunch of fascinating emails - people starting to see where their unconscious Parts have been quietly trying to get everyone around them to see the world the way they do. And with that came the realization of just...
Is the World Getting Better? or Worse?
Speaker: Vince KlassenHave you ever noticed how two people can look at the exact same world and come to completely different conclusions about it?One sees everything falling apart.Another sees slow progress.And both...
What Just Happened?
What if the most dangerous moments in your life aren’t the loud ones, but the quiet ones? The ones where a voice inside you starts making a very convincing case. A case to quit. To blow it up. To take the shortcut. To say the thing you swore yo...
What if Miracles are Plan B?
What if one of Jesus’ most famous stories isn’t about waiting for a miracle - but about becoming one? This week we’re stepping into the middle of the feeding of the 5,000 and listening carefully to the moment we usually rush past: when Jesus lo...
Is Spirituality the Same for Everyone? Church on the Ledge
Speaker: Vince KlassenWhat happens when the faith that once fit… doesn’t anymore?Many of us were taught that religion is one-size-fits-all. Believe the same things. Follow the same rules. Stay in line.But what happens when you...
Religion, a force for good?
Speakers: Vince KlassenMany of us grew up in a Christian tradition that left a mark (even if we didn’t grow up in it, the influence of the Christian tradition has snuck into us from the people around us).Sometimes it was subtl...
Our Manifesto
Speakers: Vince KlassenTaking Water its in this thing called (transcendent) WeRecently I had an experience that’s stayed with me. I was running with a group near the Talisman Centre by the river. It was –10°C when we noticed a man...
Pastor Vince on the Hotseat
Two Sundays - the end of an era, and the beginning of the next.This Sunday, Vince’s on the Hotseat. Ask him those questions you’ve always wanted to ask - but maybe never had the chance or nerve to.Bryce (aka Bad Boy with a Heart...
Pastor Jeff on the Hotseat
Speakers: Bryce Lokken & Jeff JarvisTwo Sundays - the end of an era, and the beginning of the next.This Sunday is Jeff's Last Sunday at Friends Church so you can ask him whatever you've always wanted to know about him.B...
Making Changes
Speaker: Jeff JarvisDeep down, most of us already know at least one change we long to make. Yet as Vince has been unpacking, it’s often not a lack of desire or effort that holds us back—but unseen forces within us that cause us to ...
Change, But Healthier
Changing is hard—really hard. But it isn’t impossible.Last week we explored why New Year’s resolutions (and most attempts at change) fail: our internal systems are designed to keep us exactly where we are. For many of us, that realizatio...
Why New Year's Resolutions Fail
Big holidays spark motivation. New Year’s especially.And yet… most resolutions fade fast. We joke about it because we’ve lived it.But why do they fail?And more importantly—how do we finally make them work?This ...
The "Wise Men" Cometh
Over the years, Christian traditions have built different walls around their castles of faith—each convinced they’ve got it right, and everyone else has it wrong. It’s strange, really, that so many walls exist around the same story.
Outsider
The shepherds were the last people anyone expected to be part of the story—they were living on the margins, working the night shift while everyone else slept, never invited to the events around them. OutsidersAnd yet… they’re the ...
2025 Water Awards
Every year, we gather the remarkable stories emerging from our community—stories of people “Taking Water,” showing up with compassion, generosity, and a willingness to invest themselves in the lives of others without expectation. These stories ...
The Spirituality of Spaces
Walk into any cathedral in the world and chances are you’ll feel something.For me, it’s often a sense of Something More.After a conversation with an architect in our community, I’m realizing just how much our spaces shape us—how the...
