Bothell Amplified

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.