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FPC Bellingham episodes

  • Sermon Series: Thanksgiving Reflection #1 - Brad Day [November 19, 2023]

    Each Thanksgiving our Sunday service is transformed as members of our congregation share a deeply personal Thanksgiving reflection. This week we will be sharing four stories by Brad Day, Steve Thames, Jeannie Cox, and Greg and Christy Hart.

    Our first reflection is by Dr. Brad Day, recorded November 19, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham.

    10 min
  • Sermon Series: Hard and healthy futures [November 5, 2023]

    Message by Rev. Doug Bunnell recorded November 5, 2023 at First Presbyterian Church of Bellingham.

    Acts 21:7-15; Scripture read by Ozzie Lewis

    Reflection Questions:

    Paul listens to the counsel of his peers, but then follows Jesus on his own.

    • What do you think it felt like to hear the prophecy of Agabus?
    • Luke says in verse 12 “we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.”, who do you think he refers to?
    • Paul listens to their counsel, but still chooses to go to Jerusalem. How did it affect his relationship with Agabus and the leaders? with Luke and his own entourage?
    • How do you think Paul felt standing alone, in disagreement with the room?
    • Do you think Paul does the right thing?
      • 33 min
    • Sermon Series: Healthy relationships include healthy goodbyes [October 29, 2023]

      Message by Rev. Doug Bunnell from Sunday morning - October 29, 2023

      Healthy relationships include healthy goodbyes.
      Living wholeheartedly involves joy and tears.

      Acts 20:17-38; Scripture read by Jan Dougherty

      Reflection Questions

      • What strikes you about Paul’s Goodbye speech?
      • Where do you live without regret?
      • Where might you be tempted to shrink back?
      • What hard things are coming up for you?
      • How might you face them like Paul?
      • What role do tears and grief play in your life?
      • How are you at healthy goodbyes?


        • 23 min
      • Up Close & Personal: Earl Palmer Memorial - Part 3

        In a special set of episodes, Doug shares three special parts of Earl Palmer's memorial service at University Presbyterian Church this last June. Earl Palmer preached at First Presbyterian Church a number of times, and was a true legend.

        In this part, we listen to a homily of hope by Pastor Doug, and a performance of Bring Him Home from the musical Les Misérables.

        Earl Palmer Memorial Service on YouTube


        20 min
      • Up Close & Personal: Earl Palmer Memorial - Part 2

        In a special set of episodes, Doug shares three special parts of Earl Palmer's memorial service at University Presbyterian Church this last June. Earl Palmer preached at First Presbyterian Church a number of times, and was a true legend.

        In this part, we listen to a poem written by Earl called "I Know a House."

        ⁠⁠Earl Palmer Memorial Service on YouTube⁠
        I Know a House

        I know a house that took me in to send me out and I keep finding this house in all of the places in my life as if it were as itinerant as I

        My first memory of this place I call a house is of friendly fragrances the smell of evening suppers and coffee brewing, sometimes of old wooden doors that are out of fashion and sometimes the new aroma of children laughing

        I came to know the people of this house who took me in and who send me out because they taught me here about the owner of the house and in time I learned his name

        I always love best of all the main room right in the center of this house a room that seems always vast in size to me with its grand sounds solemn and joyous and the flood of colors on both sunny and cloudy days

        I learned the memory of a royal past because of this house and like a waterfall cataract of some mysterious river that flowed around its open door I felt the powerful surprise of hope and resolve

        I know this house and wherever I go I find it either settled in or precariously perched yet always the house that takes me in to send me out

        5 min
      • Up Close & Personal: Earl Palmer Memorial - Part 1

        In a special set of episodes, Doug shares three special parts of Earl Palmer's memorial service at University Presbyterian Church this last June. Earl Palmer preached at First Presbyterian Church a number of times, and was a true legend.

        In this part, we listen to Earl's family reflect and share on following Jesus faithfully.

        ⁠Earl Palmer Memorial Service on YouTube⁠

        35 min
      • Up Close & Personal: Becca Niemeyer

        Pastor Doug sits down with Becca Niemeyer and gets an update on how life is in central Washington, community building, and her roles at Quincy Presbyterian and Ingalls Creek Retreat Center.

        35 min
      • Up Close & Personal: John Freal

        Pastor Doug is joined by John Freal to talk about the beauty of math, using poetry to work through grief, using music to inspire writing, and the power of Dr. Seuss, T.S. Eliot, and Bob Dylan.


        Some additional information from the conversation:

        The Quadratic Equation

        T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets

        Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert

        Dr. Seuss: A Hatful of Seuss

        Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

        John's blog: Prophet Margins

        48 min

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