<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Poulsbo Community Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poulsbo Community Ch]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.poulsbo.church/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Ketchup Day! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friday is my Ketchup Day!  I know some call it catsup, but we’ve always been a ketchup family.  I’m a fan of ketchup, Heinz 57 to be precise and particular, but that’s not really what I’m thinking.    Friday is the weekday when I catch-up on lots of things … errands, phone calls, medical appointments, laundry, the late-written devotional.  In my head, it’s Ketchup Day, which makes it more fun to approach and accomplish the myriad tasks!    This morning (Friday), I caught up on my week’s...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/ketchup-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6dff612aa0dd3fa164c7db</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:16:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_6c39783455343556654e77~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful Feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[How can we pray for you, Colleen?  This most kind inquiry was presented to me on a Sunday, in August, about ten years ago.  My answer, “Please pray for my feet!”  It was an immediate reply.  Not pretty.  Not cautiously crafted to guard my vulnerabilities or give a lofty spiritual response.  It was not about relationship- or community-building.  It was not about stamina, or fortitude, or thriving on little sleep.  It was about my size eights.     Truthfully, though, to be low on stamina...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/beautiful-feet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a63a33959dc3f2805c672e9</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:45:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_433b76a60bb3498da2712bd3d3f2593c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trustworthy ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being trustworthy (reliable, dependable, and honest) is an exceptional character quality, don’t you think?  I desire to live up to others’ expectation and need of my being a trustworthy woman.  I appreciate trust is established by living and serving with integrity, with action aligning with our values and I need that.  Certainly with a new acquaintance, personal or business, I am watching for honest and respectful words and follow-through.  I admit to having my guard up and exercising (at...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/trustworthy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5941ce0ff39938e1cccbf6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_ed046199f1964a52b145c33684903e01~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building My Testimony ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear women, today I am delighted, and humbled, to share the following testimony written July 4, 2026 by Carin Agor, our beloved PCC Kid’s Ministry Lead.   As The Lord builds my testimony, His awe and wonder is shown to me in ways that are so clear they are as if only my true blindness would miss them.   Yesterday while waiting for food after three hours spent getting no where in Washington DC (that’s another story for another day) my son, mother, father, and I were approached by a man in...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/building-my-testimony</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5b8b89f41b637093b16a69</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_54526b44614a474b327945~mv2_d_4145_2753_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving Others]]></title><description><![CDATA[I woke up grumpy today.  Startled and grumpy.  There’s a trail that passes directly behind our home and is a favorite of dog walkers, bike riders, joggers, and walkers.  We neighbors are accustomed to, and often delight in, the regular parade throughout the day.   Today’s parade, however, began before 530am with loud conversation between what seemed like a dozen persons.  It was a calm, exceedingly pleasant fresh-air morning.  Voices traveled as if over glass-still water.  Voices so loud, I...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/loving-others</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4be4b5a178a38b32c95930</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_371273cdd7774ac181f016a30d81aa82~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can Call Me Grace!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I heard the phrase, Just call her Grace, said with a healthy dose of resigned tolerance, regularly through my childhood.  Just call her Grace! referring to my young, awkward, and clumsy personage.  Grace, to me then, implied moving with ease and decorum.  Gently, gracefully, nicely.  Not bumping into things or stepping off curbs or tearing my clothes on whatever I brushed against.  Not tripping over loosened shoelaces.  Certainly not breaking your arm at the roller skating rink.  I did not...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/you-can-call-me-grace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4be417c9e68b02b398f580</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_c278a640e3814533b182f3248094049c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduations, Dads, And Dedications]]></title><description><![CDATA[June is a month of good things, isn’t it?  Completion of the school year!  For some families, celebrating completion of 12 school years or the college years.  It surely is a whole family achievement! For all (I hope), celebrating the “dads” who’ve impacted our lives and seen us through the skinned knees, the bruised hearts, the driving lessons, and the other fits and starts of early adulthood.  I include on my list the men in our family who became dads to the next generation.   This week I am...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/graduations-dads-and-dedications</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4be1c8f7b480551f15bd0c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_a1dd5e70418544199287145aa2625293~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roundabouts]]></title><description><![CDATA[I had occasion to drive through a couple of roundabouts this morning.  Which always reminds me of my husband’s wise counsel when the first roundabout was completed in the community where we lived.  “Yield to cars coming from the left and, once in the circle, signal your intent to leave as you approach your turn-out.”  Over the past several years, with more new roundabouts in the area, I’ve become increasingly familiar with the protocol of driving through them.  Though maybe too familiar with...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/roundabouts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4be08df7b480551f15ba5b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_28ef2ceb3ec14998981985504fda51ac~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lofty Positions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The boy wanted to run faster than his daycare friend.  She was five and had reached the lofty position of being a Kindergartener.  He was four and was in awe of his friend.  He was certain he would one day marry that friend, after he first bested her in a race across the expansive lawn at the daycare.  He explained that the way he figured it, in just two years he would be in First Grade and then he would be taller and faster than his Kindergartener friend.  In just two years!  His parent...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/lofty-positions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2870ac750b8b39abc1418c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_ed5c990a2a794b65a3d8f434e76cc154~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Has This Messenger Jesus Done?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why should I listen to you?  To them?  Truth is, that thought goes through my head on the regular when I read or hear something that seems to not ring true.  A little caution flag raised up to warn me there’s possible danger ahead.  Everyone needs a little caution tape in their lives, don’t you think?   So once we’ve reviewed the situation and considered who is bringing the warning or the instruction or the guideline, we have the necessary info to move forward (or not), listening/watching for...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/what-has-this-messenger-jesus-done</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a28700232d35aa9db66ab08</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_b066e52e98284159b9593ff6b743944a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Is This Messenger Jesus?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I do not think I am in the minority to admit that I don’t answer my personal phone too often.  Only if I recognize the number or the caller ID.  I am so happy to answer a call from my friend or my sister. But I really appreciate the opportunity to be selective about all the calls that are akin to the junk emails I ignore:  political calls, shady “charity” calls, and service or sales calls.  I like to know who the caller is before I engage with them.  And the author of the Book of Hebrews...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/who-is-this-messenger-jesus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a286eccbcf454bfefdebf05</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:53:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_47923352678d45a78c4bb2a889f8e481~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing New . . . Except My Growing Understanding Of It]]></title><description><![CDATA[There have been more than one or two times that my son has said to me something like … “I know you (or Dad or …) have said this before, but today Elizabeth (or Abby or Nathan or …) said the same thing but in a different way, and I understood it.  It really hit home.”  My response?  Hallelujah!  Whichever messenger the Lord uses to bring wise counsel and truth into our lives, I say hallelujah!  There is no pride of authorship here.  His dad or I didn’t come up with something profound.  We...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/nothing-new-except-my-growing-understanding-of-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a286d42579005354a9f4dca</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_7672625a567958326b3449~mv2_d_5760_3840_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long Ago …]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are there song lyrics, or passages of Scripture, or a section of the Gettysburg Address that you haven’t heard or read lately but when you do, you immediately know the words and find yourself joining the singer/speaker?  I love when it happens “out in the wild” as my nieces say, out in public somewhere where you have no control over the content coming forth but it triggers something in your memory.  A good something in your memories.  The beginning of the Book of Hebrews is one of those...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/long-ago</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a04add24c277d8732ae64fa</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:04:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_bbbb871eaec84465b64a04835d08bc52~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaggle Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every Sunday morning after the worship team does their rehearsal in preparation for that morning’s services, Jason gathers up what is routinely referred to as “the gaggle.” The gaggle includes the staff and volunteers who are serving that morning. They meet together to get a run-through of the service and any last-minute instructions. Jason, our patient worship leader, sometimes appears to be herding cats to get us to the gaggle.  Sometimes the gaggle is gathered and awaiting the leader who...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/gaggle-lesson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f3bdc06f0bf9cf136ed6c0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:40:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_38864954daa1437cb928eeaa6dbcc30a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Majestic Text]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve had the opportunity to read Genesis chapter 1 a few times recently.  It is … PHENOMENAL!  Please pardon my shouting but, well, I can’t help it!  Afterall, it is about the beginning, the very beginning! In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/a-majestic-text</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69efa93024f9d3e5cd6ddd3f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:22:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_68345a4138344238333477~mv2_d_6000_4000_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding Fast Our Confession]]></title><description><![CDATA[What comes to mind when you think about God?  About Jesus?  No light-weight question there!  Though worthy of a moment of pondering …  What  do  I think about God? Is God holy, powerful, faithful, merciful, forgiving?  Near?  Far?  Interested in my circumstances, my thoughts, my heart condition?  Big enough, patient enough, and loving enough to hear any question I have, to receive my pleas for mercy, for forgiveness, for tangible evidence of His care of me?  Is God lofty and...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/strengthening-bonds-community-services-at-poulsbo-church</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d68901c55f668b53047c57</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:57:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_c0abac2bfc24418a888f8c38c8f63998~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's Calling]]></title><description><![CDATA[What comes into your mind when you think about … supper?  Anticipation of something delicious?  Gratitude that someone else is planning and prepping?  Thanksgiving for the people who will sit with you over the meal? How about … doing something new, something you have not done before?  Like eating sushi?  Or flying across the country by yourself?  Or walking into a group for the first time?  Possibly, probably, a little nervous.  Maybe expecting the worst? That would be me and the sushi!   But...]]></description><link>https://www.poulsbo.church/post/connecting-through-faith-join-our-community-events</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d688fd4424ffa457c215df</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:57:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_0d4d1ae679264c919bbac1a0d4eca9a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Colleen Lacey</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>