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Welcome to our 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
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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...
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?
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