After celebrating the welcome of eleven new members into the congregation, Pastor Kelly shares the dissonance of preaching from Jeremiah 8:18-9:2.

God does not abandon us in our suffering, reminding us that even when it makes us uncomfortable, we are not to turn away from the suffering of others.

Reflecting on the story of the Israelites creating and worshiping a golden calf, Pastor Kelly cautions us that we may not be that different from our ancestors in faith.

As we celebrate the beginning of the school year, Pastor Kelly reminded us of the cost of raising children and the cost of discipleship in Luke 14.

Pastor Kelly reflects on the instructions to the first Christians from Hebrews 13. While some think Christians ought to be good at loving one another, the reality is we’ve always needed reminders.

Pastor Kelly invites us to look with the eyes of Jesus to see how people always matter more than the posturing for status and power.

We were delighted to welcome one of our missionaries, Katherine Parker to come and share about her work of empowerment with women and the communities in Nepal.Following the sermon, Pastor Kelly shared a difficult update about one of our brothers in the shelter program.

Pastor Kelly shares how communion is a liturgical act of resistance against the empire and its oppressive social stratification and protocol.

In the second in the series (Resistance is Biblical), Pastor Kelly lifts up biblical and contemporary songs of resistance. From the hope-filled ballad of Isaiah 35 during the Babylonian exile and Mary’s subversive lullaby (The Magnificat) to the vengeful rap of Psalm 137, he invites us to hear the same resistance in contemporary songs from Lizzo’s Like a Girl and Jamila Woods’ Baldwin.

As immigrant communities live in fear because the U.S. government threatens massive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Pastor Kelly kicks off a new sermon series: “Resistance is Biblical.”He intertwines poems of resistance from the bible with poems of resistance from the Filipino hero Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896) and Guatemalan (liberator and activist Julia Esquival (1930 – ).

Jesus promised his disciples that he would send an advocate (legal counsel) to empower and embolden them to testify to the kingdom values and ethics he had taught them.

On his Father’s Day sermon, Pastor Kelly reflects on the work of the Poor People’s Campaign, his arrest in Seattle, and what it means to have and to be an advocate in Christ’s name.