Bothell Amplified

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.