Woodland Friends Church

Jesus, fully God, fully man, walks out onto the water and intends to just cross the other side. It’s only a few miles. Why risk a boat ride on a stormy night when you could just walk it, right? And the word choice here of Mark suggests that first of all, this was just for Jesus’ benefit! He intended to pass them by! Then He appears to change His mind, “D’oh! There they are! They saw me! Now they’r...

People who have gone before us. People we could in some small way thank for their obedience and faithfulness that we now get to be here. In a facility. Being the church together on this hill. Still hearing the Word of the Lord. Still studying His ways... will we leave the same legacy for future generations?

Uncertainty. Opposition. Hostility. But the Great Commission always remains the same. What did Joshua and the Israelites do when they saw adversity hindering their advancement? -- Listen to message from special speaker, Supt. Jim LeShana of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends.

Christ's Gospel: The truth that He came to Israel long ago, and He came to Woodland later, but still long ago in the extension of His Body of Christ. He died for our sins, and His Body brought that message to these hills. He rose again, showing that we do can die to sin and rise in newness of life, and that, and that truth is what will always save!

Eulogy and Message at the Funeral Service of James Woolbright. Father Jim Woolbright giving the eulogy, Pastor Kevin Davis giving a Message out of Titus 2:11-14, "Grace for the Earnest Christian."

We are celebrating the past. Woodland Friends meets in the wake of a century of faithful saints who knew that God even wants the remote hills of Idaho to be filled with His Light. His Gospel. What does that mean for the present and future though?

Released from the sermon vault. Originally Preached September 24, 2017.

Released from the Sermon Vault: Jesus Forsaken. Mark 15:33,34

GOOD FRIDAY COMMUNION SERVICE AT WOODLAND FRIENDS CHURCH: We might say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa – hold on a minute Jesus. You’re doing communion, now!” “Mark, you sure that’s it? You set the table with a betrayer in the midst, but now it’s back to business?!” But Judas may not be the only betrayer here. Who are YOU at the Table?

For a lot of war-saturated Christians, wartime imagery in the Bible gets our blood boiling... Is it for the preparation of the Gospel of peace? Or something else...?

We head to Easter, wherein Woodland Friends will receive a presentation from missionaries TO Ireland, thus considering St. Patrick's famous prayer. We do so insofar as we’ve our affections bent towards Christ by considering some of the likely Scriptural inspiration of St. Patrick's words. Today we consider God's omnipresence as David unpacks it in his memorable 139th Psalm.

We know the trajectory and David’s actions here won't surprise us. He’s taken Abigail. He’s taken more concubines and wives. He’s taken Michal back when he already had all the other women - he shouldn’t surprise us but… “the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart,” (1 Sam. 16:7). And Samuel said to [Saul], “The Lord has torn the kingdom of I...

Recorded at a mid-week evening service, missionaries Samson and Priscilla Retnaraj, Indian nationals serving in Nepal, share about their long, ongoing work in Nepal. Find out more about them at friendsmission.com!

David’s a king, reigning like Jesus in both justice and righteousness. And, like Jesus, he's bestowing grace and kindness - raising one from his status as a crippled descendant of David's enemy to the king's table, while trying to bless another who resists and rebels against him. Some things never change.

Sermon originally preached March 12, 2017. If you’re looking for black or white answer to politics here, I don’t think you will find it. If you’re looking for peace with politics, I think you WILL find it.


The Lord does receive our Thanksgiving. Was David at fault to want to build God a house? I wouldn’t say at fault. I would point out there were prescribed ways of thanking God through the fellowship offerings. For God, His heart towards David? “It’s not about what you do for Me. It’s about what I’m doing for you!”

I like when this Promise comes. It comes not in or after chapter 11, when David’s stealing a wife and murdering her husband. And God has not been consistently with David through battle, and toil, and delivering those enemies into his hands, and delivering David out of these enemies, and giving him Jerusalem wondering, thinking the whole time, “When is payday?!" That’s not God’s heart!

“When I’m stuck in sermon prep, have I asked the question?” The question being, “How does this remind me of Jesus?” I couldn’t get over the image of a procession into Jerusalem. Where have I seen that before? Jesus’ Triumphal Entry of course. The biggest difference about David’s Triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and Jesus’ so many years later…? Is What David accomplishes when he comes to the taberna...

We see over and over that "the LORD with with David!" And you say, “He’s David! King David! God had a plan for his life, he’s the king after God’s own heart, it was set in stone! It was meant to be! But not me. The Lord’s not with me.” And yes it’s God’s Word, it’s history, it’s come to pass, but the story was being written as David walked this earth. And the pages weren’t set in ink yet. And the...

This isn’t how David operates. Here’s why he doesn’t operate that way. I feel like some Christians want to distill our faith down to mere mysticism, and not reality. Some Christians want to stress human agency so much to the point of denying God any practical insertions into life. Don’t let God’s providence and omnipotence make you lazy, but don’t let man’s responsibility make you ignorant or begr...

Violence. Power. Force. “This is how I’m respected.” It makes no sense to some when David catches Saul in a cave relieving himself, and David has the ability right then and there to put an end to Saul. It makes no sense to Abishai when the entire army is sleeping, and Saul’s just lying there right next to his spear… and in both instances David does not fight the way Saul has fought. He chooses mer...

David’s supposed to be assuming the Throne! He’s been on this path for years! Anointed as a teenager! Chased by Saul! He was always nice to Saul! Never sought to kill him when he could, when had opportunity! And now that Saul has died, and now that Israel is open for a new leader, he’s facing THIS. More Saul-followers. Scheming commanders. Civil war. Two kingdoms. But he was promised! Yahweh throu...

The saying goes in farmland, being in the barn doesn't make you a cow. So maybe you were raised in the church, maybe you said a sinner's prayer, maybe you were baptized? But are you saved as the Bible lays out?

CHRISTMAS KIDS PROGRAM HAPPENING AT WFC for 12/24/23. Here is recorded Friday (Dec 22)'s communion service sermon. What the Angels say that first Christmas twilight, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” To you. He, Christ, was born unto You, to the Shepherds, "to His own," John says, and to all, to the world – John would say over and over in his go...

"During the time of King Herod," is how Matthew frames the Nativity story. Knowing my Advent Scriptures very well, I knew Luke 2 began naming off some other names. Caesar Augustus. Quirinius. My clever preacher’s mind clicked, knowing especially that the Three Kings we sing of, have been pretty much proven through historical research, they were never really kings. Yes, they had an audience with Ki...