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.