Bothell Amplified: Recent Episodes
Bothell United Methodist
We're excited to launch our new podcast, Bothell Amplified! Join Pastor Joe of Bothell United Methodist Church and the greater Bothell (Washington) community as we navigate the ways our faith impacts our daily lives! Visit us at bothellumc.org Produced by: Mack Britton Productions
This week, we launch a new series called "Who is this God?" From this familiar story, Pastor Joe reminds us that God is one of compassion who does not turn people away. How might we imagine a world where scarcity does not limit our realities, and instead, a world that celebrates abundance?
This week, we welcomed Angela Molloy, who invited us to confront ableism in the church and affirm that disabled people belong fully in our communities. How can we follow Jesus by dismantling barriers, restoring relationships, and building a church where every person’s dignity and gifts are honored?
This week, we celebrated Native American Ministries Sunday as we welcomed Sarah Augustine, Executive Director of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, who challenges us that there is only one side in this world: those who align with the systems of life. How can we collectively choose to tell a different story to bring forth the kin-dom of God?
This week, we celebrated UMCOR Sunday as we welcomed Kathy Bryson, the Co-Disaster Response Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, who invited us to experience the Parable of the Good Samaritan through the lens of disaster response and everyday life. May we be people who notice those unexpected opportunities to love our neighbors!
This week, we close out this series turning to Rebekah. God asked Rebekah a simple question - "Will you go?" and that same question is extended to us all today. Whatever God is placing in front of you, the God who invites you is also the God who goes with you.
This week, we welcomed the District Superintendent of the Puget Sound District of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, the Rev. Mark Galang. In his sermon, he didn't flinch from the difficulty. Instead, he sat with the hard questions and found something we often miss: the climax of this story isn't Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. It's God's refusal to let it happen!
This week we continue our series, Beyond Fear, and turn to the story of God widening the circle of God's love in Ishmael. While fear asks, "Who is in and who is out?", we put our hope in a God whose loves is always larger than our fear.
This week, we welcome Brian Fu, our Director of Discipleship and Care, to preach his last sermon with us before we goes to serve both Colby and Gig Harbor United Methodist Churches. In this sermon, he challenges us to not hinder God's blessings for others!
This week, we continue our series, Beyond Fear, and turn to the call of Abram and explore how we might respond to God's call, not out of fear, but in trust of God's promise.
This week, we launch our new sermon series exploring how God shapes ordinary people through blessing, disruption, doubt, mercy, and trust. Before we act, build, or grow, we are formed by a promise that frees us from fear and calls us to become Christ in the community.
This Sunday, we welcomed Rev. Cruz Edwin Santos, Director of Hispanic/Latinx Ministries for the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church as we celebrated Pentecost Sunday! He shared how the miracle of Pentecost wasn't that everyone suddenly sounded the same. It was that God showed up in every language, every culture, every story — and didn't ask anyone to leave theirs at the door.
This week, we conclude our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. What might it mean for us to be formed, not by trust, but by trust in the One who restores, strengthens, and establishes us?
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to ruled by fear and instead, speak boldly, truthfully, and remain grounded in hope?
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to mirror the violence of the world and respond in love?
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that builds us with fear, power, and control, how might we be built together with belonging and love?
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be re-formed by love?
This week, we launch our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be challenged to embody living hope?
Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to remember that resurrection is not only something we celebrate, but a way of becoming the people God calls us to be!
This week, Pastor Joe continues to focus on resistance as a theme for Lent as we journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on what is known as Palm Sunday. He challenges us to take a side: to either align with power and empire or to follow Christ into a new way of love, justice, and communal courage.
This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we might resist death. Resurrection is not only about what happens later. It is what happens whenever life breaks through now. And if resurrection is happening now, then we can no longer accept what diminishes life as inevitable.
This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we can resist blame. We named how Lent invites us to notice how quickly we explain suffering by assigning fault, and how we can choose to live a different way by looking for the work of God in places we might otherwise dismiss.
This week, we welcomed Tricia Hansen to continue sharing through our theme, Lent as Resistance, and how we can resist division. She challenged us to receive this encounter with the woman at the well so that we might know the presence of Christ, that we would look to be rooted in Christ, and that we might be empowered in our rootedness to put ourselves in the places where the gospel message can transform us and bridges that which feels impossible!
This week, we continue through our theme, Lent as Resistance, by exploring how Lent challenges us to resist certainty. How might we release control and live differently into God's preferred future?
This week, we launched our Lent Series looking at Lent as Resistance by exploring how we resist empire. How might God be affirming and re-affirming our inherent Belovedness and inviting us to resist empire that tries to take that away?
This past Sunday, we heard from a member of our church, Angela Molloy, a doctoral candidate in the joint Iliff School of Theology/Denver University program and the Disability Ministries Committee Chair for the Greater Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church who challenged us to identify God’s agapētos (beloveds) today who the Divine is begging us to listen to, including our siblings of color, Palestinians in Gaza, Disabled and Autistic beloveds, immigrant siblings, God's Queer and Trans beloveds, unhoused neighbors, and more.
This week, Pastor Joe concludes our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Conditions. After Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he continues by declaring the gathered to be the salt and light. How might we live into that identity so that our very presence can disrupt the world's systems built on fear and dehumanization?
Please note: Due to technical difficulties, Pastor Joe's usual greeting is not included in this episode. The episode picks up from this week's scripture reading.
This week, we continue our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Relationships. When Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he makes a declaration describing the kind of community that emerges when people are re-centered around God instead of power, instead of ego, and instead of fear. In what ways might God be inviting us to live into Transformed Relationships for the sake of the world?
This week, we launch a new series focusing on our stated goals: Transformed People, Transformed Relationships, Transformed Conditions. How might God be inviting us into personal transformation so that we can move towards God's preferred future?
This week, we wrap up our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus invites us into curiosity as a way of being so that we might let go of certainty and control, and instead lean into God's preferred future together.
This week, we continue our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus first embedded himself in the community before the launch of his community. How do we turn to each other and lean into shared life as we name one another as Beloved in a world that tries to push us apart?
Happy New Year! This week, we launched a new series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus reshapes the ways we live our lives. Turning to the arrival of the Magi in Matthew 2, we reflect on the Gift of Wonder and how wonder leads us to the courage to stay open, to keep paying attention, and to trust that God is still surprising us with love.
On Christmas Eve, Pastor Joe reflected on how God invites us to "Make Room". When we make room for God, something else also begins to happen: Making room for God reshapes how we make room for people!
This week, we conclude our Advent Series, "Desperate Measures", by turning to God's ongoing story of love made real to the world. How might God be inviting us to be present in incarnational love this week for our communities?
This week, we welcome our Pastor of Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, to continue our Advent Series called Desperate Measures as we turn to Joy. In her sermon, she reminds us that Jesus offers us a path, with clear directives on how we can participate in the creation of joy not just for ourselves but for everyone!
This week, we welcome our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, to continue our Advent Series called Desperate Measures as we turn to Peace. It is evident that the world is not as it is supposed to be. How might we be called to be peacemakers, not simply working towards the absence of conflict, but more so towards shalom?
This week, Pastor Joe launches our Advent Series titled Desperate Measures as we recognize that our world is not as it should be. How might we live into hope, not as optimism or pretending that everything will work out, but rather as a declaration that better days are coming?
This week, we wrapped our 140th Anniversary sermon series by turning to the story of the Israelites thirsty in the wilderness. God tells Moses: "I will be standing there in front of you on the rock." From that rock, water flowed; from hard places, streams emerge. As we celebrate 140 years, we're called to walk toward the rock with courage, trusting God is already there. The next 140 years begin now!
This morning, we continue our 140th Anniversary Celebration by welcoming the Resident Bishop of the Greater Northwest Area of the United Methodist Church, Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth, and turning to Ephesians 1:15-22. The Bishop challenges us to look forward to the next 140 years with the same faithfulness and steadfastness that has carried us this far.
This week, we launch our 140th Anniversary Celebration by turning to the story of the Israelites at the Red Sea. Pastor Joe reminds us that faith is not nostalgia. It is not about recreating what was. It is about stepping toward what could be, even when the way is not clear. How might we live into the new thing that God is doing?
This year, we celebrate All Saints' by turning 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12. Pastor Joe reminds us saints are not perfect people, but rather those who persevered and shared love, even when times were hard.
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our three-week Generosity series by turning to Jesus' parable found in Luke 18:9-14. How might we be challenged to be generous by recognizing our worth, not in comparison to each other, but all under God's faithfulness and God's mercy?
This week, we continue our Generosity Series, Grace that Grows, and welcome our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, who challenges us to still be generous, even in times of wrestling.
This week, Pastor Joe launched our Generosity Series titled Grace that Grows. In it, he reminds us to live as though God is present not only in the moments of joy and clarity, but also in the waiting, the uncertainty, and the in-between.
This Sunday, we celebrated World Communion Sunday remembering that we are part of something so much bigger than ourselves, but also that sometimes, the thing that unites us is a collective crying out to God, "How long, O Lord?"
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series called Faith Reclaimed by turning to 1 Timothy 6:6-19 and inviting us to rethink happiness. What if happiness isn't something you earn, but rather it is something you receive and pass on?
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series called Faith Reclaimed by turning 1 Timothy 2:1-7 and inviting us to reframe prayer. How might prayer become the practice by which we confront injustice? What if prayer became the discipline by which we resist empire?
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series called Faith Reclaimed by turning 1 Timothy 1:12-17 and inviting us to reimagine regret. What might it mean for us to become guardians of the truth, and not defenders of national ego? What might it mean for us to to allow mercy to meet us in the places we’re finally brave enough to name?
This week, Pastor Joe launches a new sermon series on what it means to reclaim our faith. In this first sermon, he challenges us to understand reconciled relationships not as a way to smooth things over, but as a way to find liberation and justice against the systems that oppress.
This week, we welcome the District Superintendent of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Rev. Mark Galang, to the pulpit as he wraps up our four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith!
This week, we welcome our Pastor of Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, to the pulpit as she launches this four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith!
Welcome in to another episode of Bothell Amplified, I'm Mack Britton.
This week, Reverend Kristin Joyner leads Bothell into a continuation of the Life of Faith sermon series, preaching from Hebrews Chapter 12 verses 18 through 29.
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This week, Pastor Joe continues our four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith by turning to the great cloud of witnesses. How can we be buoyed by those who have gone before us, and how might we be part of that cloud of witnesses for generations to come?
This week, we welcome Rev. Wim Mauldin to the pulpit as he launches this four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith!
This week, we turn to the letter to the Colossians and explore how we are being called to posture ourselves clothed with love. Pastor Joe challenges us to consider what it might mean for us to be known, not only for what we are for or against, but also for our compassion, forgiveness, patience and humility?
This week, we welcome former intern, Angela Molloy, as we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Angela is a congenitally disabled cradle Methodist who is currently studying in Denver in the Iliff/DU Joint Doctoral Program, and she challenges us in her sermon to expand God's table for all!
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our five-week series on Calling by turning to Colossians 1:15-28. He challenges us to be a church that knows our "why" so that we can participate in God's ongoing work towards a world where all are welcome and all belong!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to Amos 7:7-17. He wonders if we’re in a season when we are called to be modern-day prophets in a world that desperately needs them, especially as we notice the ways the state is coopting religion. Perhaps we are being called to confront the systems and structures that keep us out of alignment with God; to confront the ways the church has cozied up to power, even when it means silencing the prophets; to confront injustice, even when it’s legal, even when it’s profitable.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to the words of the Third Isaiah in Isaiah 66. He reminds us that we are living in atime when Christianity—particularly in the U.S.—is being reshaped by loud voices who are not offering comfort, but fear. Not presence, but power. Not good news for the poor, but political dominance disguised as faith. And he challenges us to to reimagine what it means to be people of faith—not as defenders of systems, but as bearers of comfort.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to the story of Elijah and Elisha and the call to connection. He reminds us that connection is a direct challenge to empire and challenges us to pick up the mantles of God's justice in the world.
In light of all that's happening in the world, Pastor Joe launches a new sermon series about calling, focusing this week on rest. He reminds us that in the midst of challenging empire and crying out for peace, the arc of the universe is long, so we must be intentional to have strength and sustenance for the struggle and journey towards God's justice ahead.
This week, we welcomed Dr. Cee E. Adamson for a conversation with Pastor Joe on the theme of Freedom. How does God's liberating work continue on in us and through us, especially as we honor Pride and Juneteenth?
This week we celebrate Pentecost! Turning to Acts 2:1-21, Pastor Joe challenges us to remember that Pentecost resists sameness and amplifies difference so that all might be celebrated and welcomed into God's community of belonging.
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our series on Gathering and Belonging by turning to the story of Paul and Silas in the prison in Acts 16:16-34. In his sermon, he challenges us tobe and to bring the Good News of a God who is love, which means to combat the thousands of years of narrative and culture that has told us that God’s love comes with conditions. If we are silent, who will share that Good News?
This week, we welcome the Rev. Liz Kearny from Liberating Lineages Collective as she continues our Gathering and Belonging series by turning to Lydia's story in Acts 16:9-15. In her sermon, she challenges us to finally embrace that the good news isn’t just for someone else, but for us, too, and to understand that when we commit the entirety of our lives to solidarity with the most oppressed, we are all made more free.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Gathering and Belonging by turning to Peter retelling his experiences before the believers in Jerusalem. In this sermon, he reminds us that it is often institutionalized religion that hinders the movement of the Spirit, and that we are called to recognize that belonging begins with God, with the Spirit, and with the grace that arrives before we expect it.
This week, we begin a new sermon series called "Gathering and Belonging" as Pastor Kristin challenges us to read the story of God's people, and especially this text of Tabitha being resurrected, as one of inclusion and belonging!
This week, Pastor Joe continues in the series, Post-Resurrection Stories, by turning to when Jesus met the disciples on the beach. In this sermon, he reminds us to remember who we are by trusting in a therapeutic God who desires relationship with us and challenges us to tend God's people in community.
This week, Pastor Joe shares about the disciples' experience of encountering Jesus soon after the Resurrection and challenges us to be resurrected people, not about certainty or lack of doubt, but about belief that is relationship. In a world built on fear and division, how might our faith be one that reaches out, even when it’s scary?
Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to find intentionally rest and to remember the ways of Jesus for the sake of the kin-dom.
This week, Pastor Joe continues to focus on resistance as a theme for Lent as we journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on what is known as Palm Sunday. He challenges us to take a side: to either align with power and empire or to follow Christ into a new way of love, justice, and communal courage.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our Lenten Journey with Jesus and the theme of resistance by turning to John 12:1-8 when Mary anoints Jesus. He suggests that much of this text is intended to be subversive and challenges us to resist the ways of the world and live in a different way!
This week, we continue our Lent series, Journeying with Jesus, by turning to what is often called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Pastor Joe offers that this text is more for religious folk, and could be named, as others have suggested, the Parable of the Elder Son or the Parable of the Forgiving Father. Check out how this text encourages us into resistance through this season of Lent.
This week, our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, continues our Lent Journey with Jesus by challenging us to understand repentance and resistance as a turning our face to God and to one another.
This week, we welcome the Rev. Ben Bond from Disability Belongs who preaches from Luke 5:17-26. In their sermon, Ben challenges us to do the hard work of both removing physically barriers to accessibility and to shift our attitudes towards disabilities.
This week, we celebrate the first Sunday in Lent and turn to the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Pastor Joe challenges us to journey through this season as a time of resistance against the powers of empire and to offer to the world a different way that leads to peace and justice.
This week at Bothell, we are joined by our friend Reverend David Valera, Executive Director of Connectional Ministries of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Reverend Valera preaches from Luke 9:28-36.
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series called Upside Down Economy by turning to the Psalms and exploring the things the psalmist calls us to do, built on a relationship with God!
This week, we launch a new series called Upside Down Economy. Pastor Joe preaches from Luke 6:17-26 as Jesus teaches from the plains a new way of living, one that challenges the ways of the world!
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our short two-week series about Calling, challenging us to remember that while calling is a personal matter, the expression of that calling only happens in community to challenge the status quo as we journey towards God's preferred future.
This week, we welcome one of our Pastoral Interns, Steph Cuthbertson, who shared from Jeremiah 1:4-10. Together, we navigated four myths of calling and explored how each of us is called to bring peace and justice into the world!
This week, Pastor Joe concludes our four-week series called Living with Joy by turning to 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 and exploring how we might recognize God's unconditional love in each other. Ya'll means all and we need each other to survive!
This week, Pastor Joe continued our series Living with Joy and preached from John 2:1-11 and the wedding in Cana. In his message, he challenged us to live into the abundance of joy and to claim God's unconditional love for us and for our community!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our series called Living with Joy, preaching from Luke 3:15-22. As he reflects on the baptism of Jesus, he challenges us to think of living with joy as an opportunity to connect to God in prayer to claim our own belovedness and to do it in community.
In this episode, we launch a new sermon series called Living with Joy as we start the New Year looking to the Magi who came to worship Jesus! Preaching from Matthew 2:1-12, Pastor Joe challenges us to move away from certainty and to live into the mystery of our faith!
Join Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they share on Colossians 3:12-17. They also reflect on 2024 and look forward to 2025!
On Christmas Eve, Pastor Joe reflected on how God encounters us through "holy interruptions." Perhaps the Good News for us in this season is that God is up to something in us and through us - may we lean into the mystery of what God is doing and live into the future without fear.
This week, we welcome back to Bothell Angela Molloy, our former pastoral intern and now a student in Denver in the Iliff/DU Joint Doctoral Program. As we journey towards Christmas Eve, she challenges us to remember the "subversive and revolutionarily kind Mary" and how we can live into her call to active, justice-stirring love!
This week, our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, shares on our relationship with material possessions and how that relates to joy!
This week, we enter continue our journey through the season of Advent as we look to the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy, and love. Preaching from Luke 3:1-6, Pastor of Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, challenges us to remember that the salvation that we yearn for is freedom from our separation from God.
This week, we enter the season of Advent as we look to the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy, and love. Preaching from Luke 21:25-36, Pastor Joe challenges us to notice hope, to be hope for our communities, and to invite others to be that hope together!
This week, Pastor Joe closes out our Pledge Series reminding us to make sure our individual values align with the values of our church so that we can all move towards God's preferred future, together! Thanks to Michael King and Amber Cosand for sharing their story, and if you want to pledge to the ministries of this church, go to https://bothellumc.breezechms.com/form/2025-Pledge-Form.
This week, Pastor Joe launched a two-week sermon series centered around steward and the ways we are called to commit ourselves to love and community. Preaching from Hebrews 10:11-25, he challenges us to let go of the things of old while aligning our values so that we can move forward together!
This week, Pastor Joe challenges us to notice the systems that keep people down and our role in revolutionizing the world towards God's preferred future. Reflecting on Mark 12:38-44, he invites us to experience Jesus' words not as a celebration of the widow's giving, but rather a commentary on the system that has failed her.
This week we celebrate All Saints Day and remember those who shaped our lives, all the folks who have left something of themselves inside us. Turning to Ruth 1:1-18, Pastor Joe reminds us that all God's children are connected, through time and space, brought together by the Holy Spirit, and that the presence of each other’s spirits, both the living and the dead, journeys with us in and through all the places God meets us.
This week, we conclude our series and journey through Mark by turning to Mark 10:46-52 and we dive a little deeper into Liberation Theology and the work of Father Gustavo Gutierrez. Pastor Joe challenges us to focus on connection - with God, with our own community, and with the community beyond!
This week, Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 10:35-45 on the complex and beautiful relationship with greatness that James and John have, and how we might experience that greatness together by serving each other this week.
This week, starting a new sermon series called Take Up Your Cross, Reverend Shalom Agtarap draws from Mark 10:17-31 and guides us through how we must let go of all that we have and search through the salvation of God.
This week, we celebrated World Communion Sunday and turned to Mark 10:2-16. Pastor Joe looked to these teachings from Jesus and how we are challenged to live into right relationship with one another!
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series, A Good Life, and turns to Esther. He looks at the ways we are called to claim identities as followers of Jesus so that we might live into God's preferred future.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our series, A Good Life, by turning to Proverbs 31 and inviting us to take on this well-known text as a way for all of us to embody the strength of the Proverbs 31 woman that resists the destructive powers of empire and violence, and instead build up community and life.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our series, A Good Life, by turning to Proverbs 1 and challenging us to take on a posture that listens to Wisdom for the sake of the world.
This week, Pastor Joe launches a new series called "A Good Life" as we learn from wisdom literature on how to live well. Today, he reflects on Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 alongside community members Reyna Quemado, Eric Trott, and Phyllis Murphy to share their stories on what it means to have a good name that connects what we do to why we do it to who God calls us to be.
This week, Pastor Joe preaches from James 1:17-27 as we wrestle with what it means to follow a Good God and how we might live to embody that!
This week, Pastor Joe concludes our 7-week series journeying through Ephesians remind us that we are not called to be the saviors of the world, but rather to resist the systems that produce and legitimize rulers and the authorities who put power over people so that we can notice the workings of the Holy Spirit that unites us into Beloved Community.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our journey through Ephesians. Drawing from the context of Ephesians and the movement of the Holy Spirit that unites, Pastor Joe challenges us to live as wise people, knowing the same Holy Spirit that was at work in Ephesus two-thousand years ago is still at work now, uniting us as a people daring to dream of a better world!
This week, we welcome our Pastoral Intern, Brian Fu, to continue our journey through Ephesians. He challenges us to posture ourselves in a way of forgiveness and love so that we might all experience the unity of the Spirit.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our journey through Ephesians by challenging us to live with gentleness and humility as we move towards Unity through the Spirit.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our series through Ephesians by looking to this four-part prayer that the author lifts up for the community.
This week, we continue on in our journey through Ephesians as we turn to the author's declaration that Christ is our Peace. Together, we wonder how we might go against the empires of today and live into God's preferred future, breaking down the walls that divide us and choosing to accept a "permanent, positive peace".
This week, we launched a 7-week series journeying through Ephesians under the theme, No Longer Strangers. Pastor Joe began the series looking at how God's belovedness includes all. Rather than allowing our faith and convictions to feel better than the other, perhaps the blessings God promises should inspire us to action in the midst of a broken world!
This week, we welcome the Methodist New Year and celebrate Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they begin another year appointed at Bothell United Methodist Church! Pastor Joe preaches this sermon from Ezekiel 2:1-5 challenging us and inviting us to engage in a posture of humility as we listen for the ways God is speaking...
Join in on another episode of Bothell Amplified as we finish our two-week series, Becoming Anti-Ableist. Our Pastoral intern, Angela Molloy, preaches to us from 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 as she wraps up her time with us at Bothell.
This week, we launch a quick two-week series on what it means for us to Become Anti-Ableist in the Community. Pastor Joe kicks us off by preaching from Psalm 9:9-20 on how our hope is in God who cares for those our systems and institutions keep out and how we can be allies in this on-going work toward inclusion and accessibility!
This week, we wrap up our three-week series on 1 Samuel as Pastor Kristin, Pastor of Community Engagement, shares with us that God does not follow the ways of the world, but instead calls each of us in our own way!
This week, we continue to follow the story of the Israelites in 1 Samuel 8:4-20 as they call for a King. Pastor Joe explores why they might have wanted a king over God and how God chooses to be present with us in all our journey!
This week, we turn to the story of Samuel and how God calls him in the middle of the night. Pastor Joe explores the different ways Samuel responds and asks how we might respond to God's call for us today.
This Sunday, we celebrated Trinity Sunday! Preaching from John 3:1-21, Pastor Joe challenges us to move from certainty to mystery by changing the ways we experience the world!
This Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost and spent time with our Pastoral Intern, Jancy Schrader, on her last Sunday with us. Sharing from Acts 2:1-21, Jancy and Pastor Joe discuss their noticing and wonderings, and how we can continue to be led by the guidance of the Holy Spirit!
This Sunday, we turn to Acts 1:1-11 and explore the moment when Jesus ascends to Heaven and how the disciples respond!
This week, we turn to Acts 10:44-48 as we explore the Limitlessness of God. Having just returned from the United Methodist Church's General Conference, Pastor Joe shares some of his reflections and ways we can continue to build a world of inclusion and belonging!
This week, Rev. Ben Hartley joins us at Bothell. Rev. Hartley preaches from Acts 8:26-40 and connects the story of how Philip the Apostle's journey (or roadtrip) and his conversations with the Ethiopian eunuch on way to Samaria has an impacts on the world today.
Join Pastor Joe for our Earth Day 2024 sermon! Connect with us as we reflect, drawing from Jeremiah 4:11-12, 19-28, on how we can be better stewards of God's good creation!
Our friend Pastor Eunice Do joins us in this latest episode with details on their new church, The Table Seattle, and preaching from Luke 24, she shares on the Resurrection story and and how we might continue to experience the risen Christ in our lives and communities today.
This week, we welcomed Angela Molloy, one of our Pastoral Interns, to preach as we recognized Disability Awareness Sunday. Angela reads to us from John 20: 1-18.
Christ is Risen! He is Risen, indeed! This week, we celebrate Christ's resurrection as we gather together for Easter! Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 16:1-8 and reminds us that we are called to continue forth the Easter story into our context and into our world!
This week, we mark Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem found in Mark 11:1-11. Pastor Joe challenges us to remember this procession as protest and encourages us to follow in that legacy as we work towards God's preferred future of hope, love, and justice.
This week, Pastor Joe reflects on the recent US Census Bureau data that claims Seattle to be the least religious metro area in the country. He turns to John 12:20-33 and follows the story of Philip as we look to Holy Week.
This week, Brian Fu, one of our three Pastoral Interns, continues our Lent series looking at Ephesians 2:1-10.
This week, Pastor Kristin Joyner continues our Lent series looking at the time Jesus got angry in John 2:13-22.
This week, we're happy to be joined by our friend Reverend Derick Harris.
Looking at Mark 8:31-38, Reverend Harris takes us on our continued journey through the Lent season.
This week, Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 1:9-15 as we kick off the Lent Season. Together, we explore the temptation of Jesus and our own belovedness!
This week, Pastor Joe reminds us about noticing the awe and wonder of God in the every day, preaching from the story of Jesus' transfiguration in Mark 9:2-9.
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our short two-week series called Creating the World Anew. Preaching from Isaiah 40:21-31, he challenges us to let go of all that we had once hoped for and to live into the realities of today alongside God who is still creating.
This week, Pastor Joe launched a quick two-week series called Creating the World Anew. Looking at 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, we explore the ways knowledge tempts us to have power over one another and how we might live our lives centered around love (and not knowledge)!
This week, we wrap up our series, Following Jesus, by inviting pastoral intern, Angela Molloy, to share with us. Preaching from Mark 1:14-20, Angela invites us to make the intentional decision of making discipleship part of our identity, and not just a task to check off the to-do list.
This week, we continue our series, Following Jesus, by inviting our newest pastoral intern, Jancy Schrader, to share with us. Preaching from John 1:43-51, Jancy invites us to reflect on why we follow Jesus and reminds us of both the personal and communal sides of doing this thing called faith.
Happy New Year! This week, we launched a short 3-week series called Following Jesus, looking to the ways Jesus launched his ministry! Preaching from Mark 1:4-11, Pastor Joe reflects on baptism.
Join Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they share on Luke 2:22-33. They also reflect on 2023 and look forward to 2024!
Together, we celebrate Christmas Eve remembering how the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy and love came to us in Jesus and committing to work towards that same fulfillment once again. Pastor Joe preaches from Luke 2:1-20.
This week, we continue on in our Advent series and turn to Mary's encounter with the angel Gabriel. Check out Pastor Joe's sermon from Luke 1:26-38.
*Please excuse the audio level inconsistencies of the episode as recording issues were impacted during the sermon.
This week, we continue through the season of Advent focusing our attention on Joy. Pastoral Intern Brian Fu preaches from John 1:6-8, 19-28 and John 3:25-30, inviting us to learn from John the Baptist on how to declare joy into this broken world.
This week, our Pastor for Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, preaches from Mark 1:1-8, encouraging us to practice preemptive peace in our daily lives for the sake of the world!
This week, we enter into the season of Advent looking at how we might wait for the coming of hope with excitement and with expectancy! Pastor Joe preaches from Mark 13:24-37.
This week, our Pastoral Intern, Brian Fu, preaches from 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, 16-18. In his message, he shares how giving thanks might be expressed through being firm in one's faith and loving one another.
This week, we wrapped up a short two-week series on how we might most fully serve God! Turning to Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25, Pastor Joe challenges us to make the intentional and conscious decision to fully serve God in worship, in loyalty, and in obedience!
Today, we launched a short two-week series exploring the ways we serve God. This week, Pastor Joe Kim preached from Joshua 3:7-17 looking at the role of the priests as the people crossed the Jordan. How might God be calling us to shoulder the burden on behalf of the community?
Today, we celebrate All Saints by remembering those who have gone before us this past year and those we carry with us on our hearts. Pastor Joe preaches from Deuteronomy 34:1-12 as he reminds us of God's ongoing story!
This episode we finish the short two-week series on the Psalms. Pastor Joe preaches on Psalm 96 and challenges us to experience this beloved Psalm with fresh perspectives while looking at the ways these words of old continue to speak life into us today.
We've entered into a short two-week series on the Psalms looking at the ways these words of old continue to speak life into us today. This week, Pastor Joe preaches on Psalm 23 and challenges us to experience this beloved Psalm with fresh perspectives!
In this episode, Joe details pictures the work of Warner Solomon at the Chicago Temple. Those pictures can be found here!
Today, we celebrate Native American Ministries and turn to Psalm 19 as Pastor Joe asks if we can imagine the vastness of God?
Today we celebrate World Communion Sunday! Drawing from Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32, we ask how we look to the future in hope!
Pastor Joe closes out this three-week sermon series preaching from Exodus 16. Looking at how God meets the people in their uncertainty and shapes them in a new identity: Might we also be in a season of God's nudging?
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series, Onwards on the Journey, looking at the story of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.
This week, Pastor Joe returns from leave and launches a new sermon series called Onwards on the Journey. Drawing from Exodus 12:1-14, we explore how God might be doing a new thing in us!
In this podcast, Reverend Dave Orendorff joins us again in our first Bothell Amplified episode of September. Reverend Orendorff is a retired UMC elder and former associate pastor at Bothell UMC and as our Summer Sermon series, Becoming Christ In the Community, draws to a close, he shares thoughts on Matthew 16:21-28.
Returning to preach this on this episode is our friend Celeste Deveney, Pastor at Nahalem Bay United Methodist Church and author. Celeste has been on staff at Bothell UMC since 2000 and continues to serve in the areas of congregational care and faith formation (Small Groups). She share her reflections on Matthew 16:13-20.
On this episode, we welcome Brian Fu, our pastoral intern and seminary student at Seattle Pacific University who has been with us at Bothell throughout the summer. Brian will share reflections on Matthew 15, 21-28.
On this episode of Bothell Amplified we welcome back Rev. Ashley Skinner-Creek, a provisional elder in the United Methodist Church, currently serving as the Director of Seattle Pacific Seminary. Preaching from Genesis 37: 1-4 and 12-28, she dives into how we are can be called to live and serve into Becoming Christ in the Community.
Joining us this week for our Summer Sermon series is Dr. Douglas Strong, the Paul T. Walls Professor of Wesleyan Studies and the History of Christianity at Seattle Pacific University (SPU). Ordained as a clergyperson (elder) in the UMC and author of five books and numerous articles on Wesleyan/Holiness Christianity, theological education, revivalism, the abolitionist movement and other social reforms, Dr. Strong will share reflections on Genesis 32:22-31.
This week at Bothell Amplified we welcomed back Andrew G. Lang, an educator in the Pacific Northwest, an alumnus of Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action and Contemplation, and author. He will be sharing thoughts on Matthew 13:31-33 and 44-52.
This week at Bothell, we were joined by Pastor Kristin Joyner as she shares reflections on Psalm 86: 11-17 as part of our Summer 2023 Sermon Series, Becoming Christ in the Community.
This week at Bothell, we were hosted by an old friend: Reverend Dave Wright! The former Bothell UMC Associate Pastor joins us after many years away while serving as the University Chaplain at the University of Puget Sound since 2006. Reverend Dave preaches to us from Isaiah 55:10-13.
We are joined on this episode of Bothell Amplified by author and educator Andrew G. Lang, an alumnus of Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action and Contemplation. Andrew preaches to us from Romans 7:15-25 and what it means to have the desire to do what is right in the law of God.
This week on Bothell Amplified we are pleased to be hosted by the Reverend Mark Galang, District Superintendent of the Puget Sound Missional District, which oversees 48 faith communities in the Pacific NW Conference of the United Methodist Church. Reverend Galang preaches from Matthew 10: 40-42 and intrigues us to see how God is renewing us, individually and collectively, during these uncertain times.
This week on Bothell Amplified we are joined by the Reverend Bob Do, Pastor of the new church plant, The Table Seattle, which launched in late 2022. Rev. Do preaches from Psalm 69: 7-18 and asks us to listen in on how God call us to create new communities where everyone can belong.
This past week on Bothell Amplified we welcome Dr. Jennifer McFarlane Harris, Associate Professor at Seattle Pacific University, where she teaches English and Cultural Studies. Reading from Romans chapter 5:1-8 & 8:14-17, Dr. Harris discusses how we are all called to grow the family of god.
This past week on Bothell Amplified, we welcome Reverend Steve Jerbi, Minister of Worship and Christian Formation at University Congregational United Church of Christ (UCUCC) in Seattle. Rev. Jerbi shares from Matthew 9:9-13 & 18-26. Check out this week's sermon here!
This week on Bothell Amplified, we welcome Reverend Elizabeth Schindler who shares from Matthew 28:16-20. Check out this week's sermon here!
Today, we celebrate Pentecost and remember when the Holy Spirit came down on the disciples to birth the church! How are we being invited to that on-going work of the Spirit, to speak a people and embody "Yes, and..." in our communities and in the world? Check out the sermon from Acts 2:1-21!
This week, Pastor Joe returns with our Youth Group to continue our series, Fundamentals of Faith. Preaching from Acts 1:6-14, see how our expectations don't always line up with Jesus' desire for community, and what part we can play in witnessing to the holy work of bringing hope, joy, peace and love!
This week, we launch a new sermon series called Fundamentals of Faith, as we look at components that guide us on the faith journey! Today, we start by looking at John 14:1-14 and see how asking questions invites us into deeper relationship with Jesus and with one another!
This week, we celebrate Earth Day and explore how God calls us to live in harmony with creation by turning to Psalm 23.
On this episode of Bothell Amplified, we close out our quick 2-week sermon series, "Meeting Jesus... Again." Focusing on the stories in Scripture of when Jesus encountered the disciples post-resurrection, we turn to Luke 24:13-35 and see how Jesus invites us even into the disappointments of life and inspires us to reimagine a future of hope!
This morning, we launched a new sermon series called "Meeting Jesus... Again", focusing on the stories in Scripture of when Jesus encountered the disciples post-resurrection. We start today on John 20:19-31 and see how Jesus invites us into relationship with himself and with one another!
This morning, we celebrate Christ's Resurrection and turn to John 20:1-18. Like the earliest disciples, we ask who we are looking for and claim, like Mary, that we, too, have seen the Lord!
On this Palm Sunday, Pastor Joe preaches from Matthew 21:1-11, inviting us to think about how Jesus initiated the challenge to the powers of the day and how as followers of Jesus, we too can cry out in our desperation for a deliverer.
This week, Pastor of Community Engagement at Bothell UMC, Rev. Kristin Joyner, continues our Lent series, Seeking, and invites us to reflect on Ezekiel 37:1-14. Where are the places of dry bones in our world and in our lives today? And how might we partner with the movement of the Spirit to bring about hope in our broken world?
We continue our Lent series called Seeking from A Sanctified Art and turn to the story of Jesus healing the man who was blind since birth. While the healing itself is only a few verses, the rest of John 9 follows how the people around the man responds. What kind of questions were they asking? And how do we ask the right questions for today?
This week, we welcome Rev. Ben Hartley, associate professor at Seattle Pacific University and ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church preaching from John 4.
This week, we continue our Lent series, Seeking, from A Sanctified Art, and turn to John 3:1-17 following Nicodemus as he encounters Jesus. Like Nicodemus, what needs to change in our worldview so that all might experience transformation?
This Sunday, we continue through our Lent series, Seeking, from A Sanctified Art and turn to the story of Jesus in the wilderness in Matthew 4:1-11. How do we listen to God's voice in the midst of the noise of the world?
In this season of Lent, we start by remembering our brokenness and how God calls us to repentance. Turning to Isaiah 58:1-12, we see what kind of fast God does choose and seek to receive all that God is revealing to us.
We close our sermon series, Spirit Filled People, by turning to the Transfiguration story found in Matthew 17. What can we glean from disciples who were with him to guide how we are called to live into God’s preferred future today?
Today, we continue our series called Spirit Filled People in 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 and are reminded of our rootedness in Jesus and trusting in the faithfulness of God. How is God inviting us to unlearn all that we might have thought we knew and re-learn how to do church and be church together?
This week, Pastor Joe is happy to return to the pulpit to bring your our newest sermon series, Spirit Filled People. In this series we look at what it means to be called into the Spirit by God. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, we look to work towards God's preferred future.
This week, we welcome Rev. Wim Mauldin, to the pulpit. Wim is a retired American Baptist pastor, a church-based community organizer, and a member of the Bothell community. Preaching from Micah 6:1-8, Wim closes out this series, Do Justice, and reminds us: What does the Lord require of you?
This week, we welcome our Deacon, Rev. Kristin Joyner, to the pulpit as she preaches on Isaiah 9:1-4 and challenges us to be part of God's unfolding work of justice in the world!
This week, we continue our sermon series called "Do Justice" looking at Isaiah 49:1-7 and the ways God calls us to live into our purpose of Becoming Christ in the Community.
This week, we launch a new sermon series called "Do Justice" looking at Isaiah 42:1-9 and the ways God calls us to live into our purpose of Becoming Christ in the Community.
Merry Christmas! Today, we revisit the Christmas story in Luke 2:1-20, and see how the Christmas story is really one about "showing up". How is God inviting you to show up in the world?
This week, we continue our Advent Series, From Generation to Generation, by turning to Luke 1:39-45, 56-58, and reflecting on the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth. Together, we explore how they were present for each other, drawing the other in to themselves.
Today, we continue our Advent series, From Generation to Generation, as we turn to Joseph. With his world seemingly collapsing around him, the angel encounters him and says, "Do not be afraid." Together, we explore how Joseph responds.
This week, we continue our Advent Series, "From Generation to Generation" and turn to Mary's story to see how God's story is one of justice, liberation and hope, and how we might be called into partnering alongside what God is already doing!
Today, we launch our Advent Series, From Generation to Generation, and turn to Matthew 1:1-17. From looking at Jesus' genealogy, how much we fully embody God's story in our own lives as we look to God's preferred future and the fullness of love, hope, peace and joy?
Today, we close out our Generosity Sermon Series by turning to the Israelites at the base of Mount Sinai in Exodus 36:1-7 as they build the tabernacle. Check out how, in being generous, they are able to more fully live into who God is calling them to be.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our Generosity Series, More of One Small Thing, by looking at the story of Joseph in Genesis 41:46-57 and the choices we make when it comes to our finances. Why is it so hard for the church to talk about money? Perhaps, we should start talking about the impact we have in the world!
This Sunday, we launched our 2023 Generosity Campaign by welcoming Rev. Dave Orendorff to the pulpit. Turning to Luke 16:1-9, Pastor Dave reminds us that the Kingdom of God is about extravagant generosity, a generosity in loving kindness for the poor, the marginalized, the brokenness of life.
This week, we remember the Saints that have gone before us. Turning to Joshua 4:1-7, we follow the story of the Hebrews who found themselves at the banks of the Jordan River, ready to enter into the Promised Land, and how they relied on the faith of the generations before to guide their way.
Today, we close our series, Activated to Love, and turn to the Parable of Sheep and Goats from Matthew 25:31-46. We welcome our very own Sharon Ryder to the pulpit as she challenges us how to live out our faith in the world!
We continue our sermon series, Activated to Love, and continue through Jesus' parables in Matthew. Today, we take a fresh look at the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30 and see how God is inviting us to spread hope with the world!
This morning, we continue our sermon series, Activated to Love, and turn to the Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids in Matthew 25:1-13. What might it look like for us to be a community of abundance to experience God's love for the whole world?
This week, we launch a new sermon series called Activated to Love! Drawing from Matthew 23:1-12, we see how Jesus teaches the crowds and his disciples to follow what the Pharisees and scribes say, but not what they do!
This week, we wrap up our sermon series, Called In, by turning to Colossians 2:6-15 and explore how when we call each other in, we create spaces and cultures of belonging, and that our faith is rooted and built in the love of Jesus.
This week, we continue our sermon series Called In and explore what happens when we call each other in and when we are called in. Drawing from Colossians 1:15-29, we challenge ourselves to be against Empire and become "Servants of the Gospel."
This week, we continue our series, Called In, and see how we are called in to connection and relationship. Drawing from the story of Elijah and Elisha found in 2 Kings 2, we ask ourselves, "How might the world be different if we were intentional in the ways we lived in community?"
Today, we launched a new sermon series, Called In. As we, and all of society, re-learn what it means to be in community, what might it look like for us to call each other in as opposed to call each other out? Today, we focus on calling ourselves in and turn to 1 Kings 19:1-15.
This morning, we welcomed Rev. Janelle Kurtz, Lead Pastor of Snohomish United Methodist Church, in a pulpit swap! Preaching from Jeremiah 32:1-17, she challenged us to live into our call to invest in our communities, not just for today, but also for future generations!
Today, we welcome our new Director of Youth Ministries, Sarah Underbrink, as she preached on Joel 2:23-28. How might we all live into the preferred future God has in store for us as we share in experiences and encounters with each other and with God?
Today, we welcome the Rev. Ashley Skinner-Creek, Associate Director of Graduate Programs at Seattle Pacific Seminary and Associate Director of the Leitourgia Project. Preaching from John 13:1-20, she challenges us to expand our understanding of community as serving and receiving service with our neighbors. What might it look like to be an intimate community, not a perfect one, but an intimate one?
This week, we welcome the Puget Sound District Superintendent, Rev. Mark Galang, as we kickoff a month of hearing from friends of Bothell on how we might live into our purpose of Becoming Christ in the Community. Preaching from Luke 10:1-20, Rev. Mark challenges us to think about in what ways we are being sent: perhaps, it's not alone, but WITH community!
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series, Everyday Prophecy, by turning to Jeremiah 23:1-6. As we have journeyed all series, how might God be inviting us to be prophetic? How might God be inviting us to reclaim community?
What does it mean to proclaim God's vision even in the context of a dominant culture of Christian white nationalism? This week, Pastor Joe continues in our Everyday Prophecy series exploring Ezekiel 2:1-5 and asking how we can humbly open our heart to God's truth.
This week, we are joined by Rev. Joel Rodriguez. Joel most recently served in Sunnyside, WA, and now lives in Honduras, supporting and accompanying Tegucigalpa Methodist Church and migrant communities. He continues our series "Everyday Prophecy" looking at 2 Kings 4:42-44.
This week, we wrap up our sermon series Still One Small Thing by looking at Jesus feeding the 5,000 in John 6:1-14. How might the world be different if we lived into God's abundance and let go of our scarcity mentality?
This week, we are joined by Rev. Janelle Kurtz of Snohomish United Methodist Church (WA), as she explores our 2022 theme: One Small Thing. Looking at Galatians 6:1-10, she challenges us to not grow weary of doing good and to surrender to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the world!
This week, we are joined by Rev. Jasper Peters of Belong Church in Denver, CO, as he explores our 2022 theme, One Small Thing. Looking at Jeremiah 6:13-15, he challenges us to live lives as people of peace so that we can speak words of peace into the world!
This week, we launch a new sermon series called "Still One Small Thing" that revisits our 2022 theme. Following the example of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), how are we being challenged to be present and show up in spaces and places, offering ourselves to the causes of justice and love?
Today, we celebrate the birth of the Church as told in Acts 2:1-13, 42-47. What does it mean for us to live into God's call of being Church in today's context? Perhaps, it might mean to be counter-cultural by gathering together and doing life together!
This week, we continue our 'What is Church?' series by looking at Revelation 22:12-21 and see how God is inviting us into the holy work of bringing together all of God's people! How do we hold true to God's vision and not focus on our own visions for the world?
This week, we launch a new sermon series called, What is Church? As we see the changing world around us, how might we be called to respond? Perhaps, it might mean letting go of the old ways and dreaming even beyond our own imaginations! Text: Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5
This week, we finish our quick two-week series on Calling and see how various people throughout scripture were called by God. Today, we turn to Acts 9:1-9 and look at Saul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.
This week, we launch a short two-week series on Calling. Looking at some of the disciples' first encounters with Jesus, we see how Christ might be calling us to live into our purpose of Becoming Christ in the Community. This week, we see how Jesus invites us to be Called with others in love, drawing from Luke 5:1-11.
This week, we welcome Dawn Stueckle, co-founder and Executive Director of Sunset Youth Services (sunsetyouthservices.org), who preaches from Matthew 26:36-46 and Micah 6:8. Dawn challenges us to journey through the process of awakening!
This week, we celebrate and recognize Earth Day and hear the call to be reconciled with God, with one another and with creation! Scripture - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
This week, celebrate Easter and turn to Mark's version in chapter 16. We look at why the man dressed in white told Jesus' followers to go to Galilee and why the women were initially afraid. How might resurrection inspire us to change the ways we see the world?
This week, we turn to John 12:1-19, as we see Jesus enter into Jerusalem. But while Rome prepares for the threat of violence and war in their march to Jerusalem, Jesus dines with Lazarus before getting on a donkey and making his way to Jerusalem. What new way might Jesus be inviting us into?
This week, Pastor Kristin Joyner (Pastor for Community Engagement) preaches from John 12:20-33 continuing our Lent sermon series, Again and Again. In this sermon, she navigates the different between change and reformation, and invites us to think about what needs to fall in order for new life to flourish!
This week, we continue our Lent series, Again and Again, following the curriculum from A Sanctified Art. Drawing from John 3:1-21, we meet Nicodemus, who went to see Jesus in the middle of the night. How does Jesus challenge him to change his values and understanding of the world? And how might we change our values to align with God's preferred future for the world?
This week, we continue our Lent series, Again and Again, following the curriculum from A Sanctified Art. Drawing from John 2:13-22, we look at Jesus in the Temple. What caused him to take the actions he did? How are we being called to follow his example?
This week, we continue our Lent series, Again and Again, following the curriculum from A Sanctified Art. Drawing from Mark 8:27-38, we look how our own understandings of Messiah might limit us in seeing the fullness of God and the invitation into God's community. Perhaps denying ourselves might mean to deny our desire to remain by ourselves, resisting the call into community.
Today, we launch our Lent series, Again and Again, following the curriculum from A Sanctified Art. Drawing from Mark 1:9-15, we look at the greatest temptation according to the author: to think that God is not present.
This week, we finish our sermon series, Life of Faith. Looking at Hebrews 13, we are reminded that the foundation of how we are called to live out our faith is through love - love for one another and love for the stranger.
This week, we welcome Rev. Jasper Peters of Belong Church in Denver, Colorado, who continues our sermon series, Life of Faith. Drawing from Hebrews 12:18-29, Jasper challenges us to overcome obstacles and navigate disruptions in our lives!
This week, we continue our sermon series, Life of Faith, and turn to Hebrews 11:29-12:2. As we continue to explore what a life of faith might look like for us as individuals and as a community, we look at the legacy of those who have gone before us as we continue on our journeys.
Today, we launched a new sermon series, Life of Faith. Trusting that God desires relationships with us and invites us to be with God on this journey that is a life of faith. Turn to Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 and ask the questions: Why do we choose to be on this journey? Why do we choose this life of faith?
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series "One Small Thing," by looking at Simeon and the prophet Anna, who met Jesus soon after his birth (Luke 2:22-40). As we think about all the ways we all can do One Small Thing, perhaps God is inviting us to be intentional in our praise and prayer.
This week, we hear from Eric Trott, the Bothell United Methodist Church Governing Board Chair, who continues our 2022 Vision Series, "One Small Thing" by looking at the ways we might show up for the members of our community, especially those who are alone. How might we trust that God is not done with us yet and partner alongside what God is already doing in our communities? Drawing from Acts 9:36-42, we see how Tabitha showed up for the widows in her community and how we might be called to respond as well!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our 2022 Vision Series, "One Small Thing" by looking at the ways we might show up for the members of our community. How hard is it for us to say yes? How do we give freely without the expectation of return? How do we share and sustain life together as our one small thing? Drawing from 2 Kings 4:1-7, we see how the widow from our text was desperate in a time of need, and how the community showed up!
This week, Pastor Joe launches our 2022 Vision Series, "One Small Thing." How might God be inviting each of us to do one small thing so that we might see healing, restoration and love in our broken and hurting world? This week, we look to the story of the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, who defied Pharaoh's orders from Exodus 1:8-22.
This week, we conclude our two week series, "Reflections from Two Trees." Our Director of Program Ministries, Celeste Deveney, preaches from Revelation 21:1-4 and 22:1-7 as she challenges us to look to this new year and beyond with hope, dreaming of ways to becoming Christ in the Community.
As we close out this 2021 and look towards 2022, we launch a quick two-week series based on the Two Trees that bookend the Bible. In this episode, Pastor Joe looks at the first tree found in the opening chapters of the Bible as we reflect on this past year and see how we might turn towards God in our vulnerability rather than pushing God, and our community, away. Scripture reference: Genesis 3:1-10.
This week, end our Advent Series, Waiting Well, by turning to the story of Joseph found in Matthew 1:18-25. As we draw closer to Christmas and celebrating Christ's birth, Pastor Joe invites us to think about how we respond when we are surprised by God in our waiting.
This week, we turn to John the Baptist and continue in our Advent sermon series, Waiting Well. As we are called to wait in this holy season, Pastor Joe asks why we even wait at all? Drawing from Matthew 11:2-11, we look for the glimpses of God's Beloved Community in the here and now!
This week, Bothell UMC's Interim Youth Coordinator, Connor Walden, preaches from Matthew 3:1-12, as he continues our Advent Series, Waiting Well. In this sermon, Connor reminds us the importance of intentionality in our waiting amidst the busyness of our lives and challenges us to find time to be.
This week, Pastor Joe launched our Advent Series called Waiting Well. Advent is a time of waiting and anticipating for the coming of Christ as the embodiment of hope, joy, peace and love, but it is not a time of sitting idly by! We are invited to participate in all that God is doing and will do in the world! This week, we draw from Matthew 24:36-44.
In this episode, Pastor Joe wraps up our latest Generosity Series, Our Money Story; by turning to John 21:1-19 and the word, "Restore". How might we understand how Jesus restores us so that we might live into God's call to being disciples in our broken world?
On today's episode, Pastor Joe sits down with Rev. Elizabeth Schindler, pastor of Faith United Methodist Church in Issaquah, Washington. Together, they share about some of the struggles of ministry and finding rest and rhythm, especially in light of her recent announcement that her time as pastor at Faith will come to a close and that she'll enter a year of intentional rest.
This week, we continue our Generosity Series, Our Money Story, with Rev. Kristin Joyner, Pastor of Community Engagement at Bothell United Methodist Church, preaching on "Re-Imagine". Drawing from Leviticus 25, she challenges us to re-imagine our money story, including examples from Theo's Chocolate, the Washington Poor People's Campaign, and our own Bothell Urban project!
On today's episode, Pastor Joe sits down with Rev. Ric Shewell, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Portland, Oregon. Together, they talk about Ric's journey in ministry, the connection of education and science with religion, and how a medical incident involving Ric's daughter has shaped his ministry.
Today, Pastor Joe continues our generosity series called Our Money Story as we focus on the word "release". Drawing from Deuteronomy 15:1-11, we listen for how God might be calling us to release the ways society expects us to have relationship with money and to live into God's money story!
On today's episode, Pastor Joe talks with Pastor Joel Rodriguez about his faith journey, serving as an immigrant from Central America in the Pacific Northwest. Throughout the conversation, he invites us to explore a faith that is about liberation and challenges us to live out our faith through that liberated lens.
This week, Pastor Joe launched our new series on generosity called Our Money Story. We all have our own money stories, and often, these are stories we don’t tell. Society has conditioned us to keep money separate from other aspects of our lives, but what if we told our money stories as part of God’s money story? This week, we focus on "remember" and draw from Exodus 16:1-18.
On today's episode, Pastor Joe sits down with the Rev. Janelle Kurtz, pastor of Snohomish United Methodist Church. Together, they talk about some of the challenges of ministry, the stigma of mental health, and Janelle's own story of navigating postpartum depression.
Sorry for the delay on this weekend's episode everybody. We've have had power outages here in the Pacific Northwest and Pastor Joe has been on the road. Alas, here we are with this week’s episode. Please excuse the lack of an introduction but please enjoy as Pastor Joe finishes our Autumn Reflections Series reflecting on 1 Timothy 6:6-19 and re-imagining contentment and happiness!
On this episode, Pastor Joe sits down with his friend, the Rev. Scott Marshall-Kimball, who shares his story of moving to a new church, East End UMC, during the pandemic. If that wasn't enough, East End UMC had also just been hit by a major tornado earlier in 2020. Check out their story and the ways God is at work as they rebuild and continue to offer hope and belonging to the greater Nashville community!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series, Autumn Reflections, by looking to prayer. Drawing from 1 Timothy 2:1-7, we reflect on to whom we pray and remember the call to pray boldly for the sake of the kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven.
This week, Pastor Joe talks with his dear friend, Rev. Shalom Agtarap, pastor of Tacoma First United Methodist, to talk about building strong foundations and relationships in the community as doing ministry in the ways of anti-racism and decolonization.
In the first sermon of our newest series, Autumn Reflections, Pastor Joe draws from 1 Timothy 1:12-17 as we explore how the stories we tell of our past shape and inform the ways we move into the future.
On this week's episode, Pastor Joe sits down with his good friend, Rev. Chelsea Simon, Associate Pastor of San Dieguito United Methodist Church in Encinitas, CA. Together, they talk about ways to do life together and create community, both online and in-person! And make sure you check out the Collective Table Podcast!
On this week's episode of Bothell Amplified, we celebrate World Communion Sunday and welcome Dr. Carmen Scheuerman, Dean of Wesley Divinity School in the Philippines. Drawing from John 6:1-14, Dr. Carmen (along with her farm friends!) invites us and challenges us to experience the abundance of God's blessings and be open to sharing with others.
This week, Pastor Joe sits down with Rev. Cody Stauffer who shares his experience of caring for his mother who came down with COVID. Cody shares how this experience shaped the way he understands caring for others and allowing others to care for you.
In this episode of Bothell Amplified, we conclude our Gathering Series as Pastor Joe shares in our roles of partnering along side God as we dream towards loving communities. Drawing from Isaiah 65:17 - 25, we hope to continue to lean into what God is actively trying to do as we return to gatherings and the joys that can be found on the journey.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by his spouse, Joann Kim. Together, they talk about parenting, transitions, the Korean harvest festival Chuseok and how faith informs their identity.
In this episode of Bothell Amplified, we continue our Gathering Series as Pastor Joe looks into how we posture ourselves to be outward facing, as opposed to being self-centered in our faith. With gatherings returning both in person and online, we draw from Isaiah 58: 6-14 as we continue to listen as God calls us back into our communities.
This week, Pastor Joe continues our Gathering series as Bothell United Methodist Church begins to live into the next era of life together, worshipping both virtually and in-person. Drawing from Isaiah 57:14-21, we navigate what it means to rebuild and why?
Today, Pastor Joe openly shares some reflections after Bothell United Methodist Church began living into a new era in the life of their community, by gathering for worship both online and in-person! Joe shares in some of the joys, highlights and blessings, and the areas for growth as they curate worshipful experiences that connect people to God and to one another.
This week, Pastor Joe launches our new sermon series titled Gathering as Bothell United Methodist Church begins to live into the next era of life together, worshipping both virtually and in-person. Drawing from Isaiah 56:1-8, we wrestle together with the idea of gathering, asking who is included and who isn't in God's gathered people?
Today, Pastor Joe openly shares some thoughts around Bothell United Methodist Church's decision to begin living into a new era in the life of their community by gathering for worship both virtually and in-person on September 5th. He shares in some of the considerations, the challenges, and the ongoing dilemmas, while also sharing about some of the ways Bothell is working to keep the community safe.
On today's episode, we wrap up our August Compassion Series, focusing on Compassion as Transformation! With all that is happening around us in the world, it's hard to love one another, and yet, the prophet Isaiah reminds us that God is doing something new, and we are invited to walk alongside all that God is already doing!
This week, Bothell Amplified is joined by Sharon Ryder as she preaches us through the next part of our Compassion Series. Sharon discusses the feelings of compassion that overcome us when we see others suffering and also the feelings of motivation to relieve suffering as Christs in our communities.
Today, Pastor Joe talks with Nicole Dibble, Director of Children's Ministry of Bothell United Methodist Church! Together, they share about this year's experience of Vacation Bible School being a hybrid model of both in-person and virtual, and they look ahead to what gathering in worship might look like as Bothell UMC prepares to enter the next phase of their life together, gathered both virtually and in-person!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our Compassion Series with Compassion for Self. We remind ourselves the importance of caring for ourselves so that we might hear God and love one another. We draw from 1 Kings 19:1-17.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by Sharon Ryder, a Church Accessibility Consultant, who shares some of her own story, walking with her son who lives with Down Syndrome and navigating belonging in places of community. Together, they talk about the ways faith communities can promote belonging for all God's people, including those with disabilities!
This week, Pastor Joe continues our new summer sermon series Compassion. Joe breaks down how we as Christians can have compassion for the Earth. We draw from Hosea 4:1-3 as we delve into how our actions (and inactions) towards one another impact our lives on this Earth and how compassion can branch out beyond our faith.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by James Kang, the President of Nexus Ministry. Nexus is a ministry by, for, and with the next generations of Korean Americans in The United Methodist Church, and is currently hosting its Convocation virtually. James took some time after the day to share about his hopes and dreams of the Convocation and of Korean-American Ministry in The United Methodist Church and his prayer that "Grace would be our guide".
This week, Pastor Joe kicks off a new summer sermon series titled Compassion. Throughout August, we look to dive deeper into the various ways compassion impacts our lives. Reflecting on Colossians 3, Pastor Joe shares how compassion translates into a way of being and how it can flow into our lives as Christs in the community.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by friend and college, Rev. Malcolm McLaurin, curate of Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross in Redmond, WA (holycrossredmond.org). In this conversation, they talk about the things that give them hope as they examine their calls and the state of Christianity today through the rapidly changing world around them.
This week, we finish our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. Pastor Joe is joined by Shama Farag, a member of the Islamic Center of Bothell and active member of the community advocating for social justice! Reflecting on Acts 17, Pastor Joe and Shama talk about the importance of loving our neighbors, even those who believe differently than us, and how we can all come together towards a better future for all!
This week on Bothell Amplified, we have another "In the News" where Pastor Joe reflects on and responds to current events that are happening in the world around us. In this episode, he focuses on the hit Apple+ TV show, Ted Lasso, which returns with season 2 on July 22. Find out what lessons we can draw from the show and how Ted Lasso can inspire us to be better people as we move towards gathering in-person.
This week, we continue our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. Pastor Kristin Joyner, Pastor of Community Engagement, filled in to cover for Pastor Joe while he was stuck in New Jersey. Focusing on Isaiah 43, Pastor Kristin affirms that all God’s people are of sacred worth, especially LGBTQIA+ youth. Later, Pastor Joe is joined by Allen Leslie, Creative Director of Diverse Harmony Youth Choir, to talk about his passion and advocacy in telling the stories of local youth.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by friend and college, Rev. Jasper Peters, Lead Pastor of Belong Church in Denver, Colorado (belongchurch.org). In this conversation, they talk about the things that give them hope as they examine and connect through the rapidly changing world around them.
This week, we continue our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. Pastor Joe is joined by Betsy Geib, founder of My Village NW, a non-profit dedicated to creating and cultivating relationships between the community and individuals with special needs and their families (https://myvillagenw.org). Reflecting on Psalm 139, Pastor Joe and Betsy talk about the importance of seeing those with disabilities and how the church can be present for people with disabilities.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by friend and college, Rev. Jeremy Smith. Jeremy is one of the pastors of First Church Seattle and the author of the website, Hacking Christianity (hackingchristianity.net). In this conversation, they talk about the things that give them hope and the challenges they face as they lead communities re-opening their doors after 500+ days of pandemic.
This week, we return to Luke 10:25-37, as Pastor Joe preaches at the mid-way point of our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. For this sermon, he reflects on the Priest and the Levite and thinking about the choices we make to love our neighbors.
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by his old friend, the Rev. Grant Vissers. Grant is the Lead Pastor at Knox Church, Waterdown, outside Toronto, Canada. In this conversation, they talk leading churches during the pandemic, how technology enhances engagement, and the call for all of us to love our neighbors, both locally and globally.
This week, we continue our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. Pastor Joe is joined by Jim O'Ferrell as they discuss how loving your neighbor extends through outreach programs like Habitat for Humanity and other community partnerships. Reflecting on Micah 4:1-5, Pastor Joe and Jim examine the need for action and activity to end homelessness.
This week on Bothell Amplified, we launch a new format where Pastor Joe reflects on and responds to current events that are happening in the world around us. Recently, there are stories of some conservative Bishops in the Catholic Church trying to deny communion to President Biden. Not cool. Find out why on the first edition of In the News.
This week, we continue our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. Reflecting on Matthew 25:34-46, we explore how we might "see" our neighbors. Then, we hear from Marsha Stueckle, who challenges us to think about loving our neighbors through food!
This week, Pastor Joe is joined by his old friend, the Rev. Dr. Theon Johnson III. Theon is the Lead Pastor of Downs Memorial United Methodist Church in Oakland, CA, and in this conversation, they talk through the journey towards true freedom and liberation, especially as the United States prepares to recognize Juneteenth.
This week, we continue our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor. We tune in on a prerecorded conversation between Drew Hogan, Youth and Community Engagement Coordinator of Bothell UMC, and Alex Watkinson, graduating senior and member of the Bothell UMC youth group! Alex shares her passion for agriculture and addressing the systemic injustices related to food insecurity as one of the ways she understands what it means to Love Your Neighbor!
Pastor Joe is joined by Rev. April Casperson, Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Together, they talk about journey and call, and especially the ways we, as people of faith, can move our communities towards the Beloved Community!
This week, we launched our summer sermon series, Love Your Neighbor! Drawing from Luke 10:25-37, Pastor Joe shares how he identifies most with the lawyer who tested Jesus as we look to the challenge to "go and do likewise".
Pastor Joe is joined by Rev. Liz Kearny, Co-Pastor of Longview Presbyterian Church and part-time chaplain at a local community hospital in SW Washington. Together, they talk about the the privilege of journeying in community in and through grief with tenderness and grace, looking to the future in hope.
Pastor Joe finishes our sermon series, "Fresh Breath" as we explore the movement of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness! Scripture reference: Romans 8:22-27
Pastor Joe is joined by Rev. Kristin Joyner, Deacon of Bothell United Methodist Church. Together, they talk about the role that faith plays in their lives and in the life of the church, and how we can put our faith into action as the body of Christ!
Pastor Joe preaches Part 3 of our sermon series, "Fresh Breath" as we explore the movement of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit connects lives! Scripture reference: Acts 2:1-12
Pastor Joe is joined by Rev. Chris Ferguson, General Secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). Together, they discuss the situation in Palestine and Israel, looking at the complexity of the situation historically and from a lens of faith.
Learn more about the work of the WCRC here: wcrc.ch
Rev Ferguson references a map at 14:15 of the podcast, see it here.
Pastor Joe continues our sermon series, "Fresh Breath" as we explore the movement of the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit revives life! Scripture reference: Ezekiel 37:1-14
We revisit our three-part sermon series from October 2020, "Faith AND Politics", where we challenge ourselves to not keep our faith personal, but to allow our faith to impact the ways we live in the world today. Scripture references: Romans 13:1-11, Numbers 27:1-11, and Luke 18:1-8.
Pastor Joe is joined by Pastor Daniel Cho of HA:N United Methodist Church, a new faith community in New York formed by Korean Americans and welcoming to all. Together, they share and reminisce on their identities as Korean-Americans and as Christians, with faith informed through a progressive lens.
Check out HA:N United Methodist Church at han-umc.org.
Pastor Joe starts a new sermon series, "Fresh Breath" as we explore the movement of the Holy Spirit. Scripture reference: Genesis 2:4-14.
We're excited to launch our new podcast, Bothell Amplified!
Join Pastor Joe of Bothell United Methodist Church and the greater Bothell (Washington) community as we navigate the ways our faith impacts our daily lives!
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