Pastor Rebecca delivered a sermon this week focusing on Baptism. She reminds us that Baptism isn’t the sign that we’re loved, it’s the sign that we’ve always been loved (and so has everyone else).

We were thrilled to have Guest Preacher Virginia Gilbert with us this week! In her sermon, she reminds us that Jesus grew up and was a beloved member of a community, just like us. He had relationships with family, teachers, and a whole host of people who shaped and formed him in love, just as we are formed today.

A very belated Merry Christmas from all of us at Bethany! Give our Christmas Eve sermon (delivered by Pastor Vince) a listen here.

Pastor Rebecca preached on the subject of patterns this week, using the analogy of childbirth and "knowing when it's time to push". Give it a listen!

Touching on the subject of matsutake mushrooms, Pastor Vince's sermon this week preaches on the ways Advent prepares us to live in a precarious world.

Student Pastor Kelli Manning delivered a sermon this week focused on Advent as a time of waiting and expectation, but also a time of breaking news. Focusing on Luke 1:26-45, 56 and the story of Elizabeth and Mary, she asks: how do we show hospitality to one another when news breaks?

In the first sermon of our "Breaking Point" series, Student Pastor Xander King considers Advent as a time just before sunrise. He asks us: how do we find glimpses of God during this dark season, and how we might allow those glimpses to give us hope for the future dawn?

In the last sermon in our "Help, Thanks, Wow" series, Pastor Rebecca centers Psalm 126, one of 15 Psalms meant to be sung by pilgrims on their way up to Jerusalem.

Pastor Vince centers this sermon around the idea that our suffering matters.

In the first sermon of our "Help, Thanks, Wow" worship theme, Pastor Rebecca preaches in response to the collective grief of the moment, reminding us that our help comes from God.