Bothell Amplified

This week, we close out this series turning to Rebekah. God asked Rebekah a simple question - "Will you go?" and that same question is extended to us all today. Whatever God is placing in front of you, the God who invites you is also the God who goes with you.

This week, we welcomed the District Superintendent of the Puget Sound District of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference, the Rev. Mark Galang. In his sermon, he didn't flinch from the difficulty. Instead, he sat with the hard questions and found something we often miss: the climax of this story isn't Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. It's God's refusal to let i...

This week we continue our series, Beyond Fear, and turn to the story of God widening the circle of God's love in Ishmael. While fear asks, "Who is in and who is out?", we put our hope in a God whose loves is always larger than our fear. 

This week, we welcome Brian Fu, our Director of Discipleship and Care, to preach his last sermon with us before we goes to serve both Colby and Gig Harbor United Methodist Churches. In this sermon, he challenges us to not hinder God's blessings for others!

This week, we continue our series, Beyond Fear, and turn to the call of Abram and explore how we might respond to God's call, not out of fear, but in trust of God's promise.

This week, we launch our new sermon series exploring how God shapes ordinary people through blessing, disruption, doubt, mercy, and trust. Before we act, build, or grow, we are formed by a promise that frees us from fear and calls us to become Christ in the community.

This Sunday, we welcomed Rev. Cruz Edwin Santos, Director of Hispanic/Latinx Ministries for the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church as we celebrated Pentecost Sunday! He shared how the miracle of Pentecost wasn't that everyone suddenly sounded the same. It was that God showed up in every language, every culture, every story — and didn't ask anyone to leave theirs...

This week, we conclude our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. What might it mean for us to be formed, not by trust, but by trust in the One who restores, strengthens, and establishes us?

This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to ruled by fear and instead, speak boldly, truthfully, and remain grounded in hope? 

This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to mirror the violence of the world and respond in love?

This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that builds us with fear, power, and control, how might we be built together with belonging and love? 

This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be re-formed by love? 

This week, we launch our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be challenged to embody living hope? 

Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to remember that resurrection is not only something we celebrate, but a way of becoming the people God calls us to be!

This week, Pastor Joe continues to focus on resistance as a theme for Lent as we journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on what is known as Palm Sunday. He challenges us to take a side: to either align with power and empire or to follow Christ into a new way of love, justice, and communal courage. 

This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we might resist death. Resurrection is not only about what happens later. It is what happens whenever life breaks through now. And if resurrection is happening now, then we can no longer accept what diminishes life as inevitable.

This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we can resist blame. We named how Lent invites us to notice how quickly we explain suffering by assigning fault, and how we can choose to live a different way by looking for the work of God in places we might otherwise dismiss.

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 tra...

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...

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 gr...

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.