Bothell Amplified

This week, Pastor Joe concludes our four-week series called Living with Joy by turning to 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 and exploring how we might recognize God's unconditional love in each other. Ya'll means all and we need each other to survive!

This week, Pastor Joe continued our series Living with Joy and preached from John 2:1-11 and the wedding in Cana. In his message, he challenged us to live into the abundance of joy and to claim God's unconditional love for us and for our community!  

This week, Pastor Joe continues our series called Living with Joy, preaching from Luke 3:15-22. As he reflects on the baptism of Jesus, he challenges us to think of living with joy as an opportunity to connect to God in prayer to claim our own belovedness and to do it in community. 

In this episode, we launch a new sermon series called Living with Joy as we start the New Year looking to the Magi who came to worship Jesus! Preaching from Matthew 2:1-12, Pastor Joe challenges us to move away from certainty and to live into the mystery of our faith!

Join Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they share on Colossians 3:12-17. They also reflect on 2024 and look forward to 2025!

On Christmas Eve, Pastor Joe reflected on how God encounters us through "holy interruptions." Perhaps the Good News for us in this season is that God is up to something in us and through us - may we lean into the mystery of what God is doing and live into the future without fear. 

This week, we welcome back to Bothell Angela Molloy, our former pastoral intern and now a student in Denver in the Iliff/DU Joint Doctoral Program. As we journey towards Christmas Eve, she challenges us to remember the "subversive and revolutionarily kind Mary" and how we can live into her call to active, justice-stirring love!

This week, our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, shares on our relationship with material possessions and how that relates to joy! 

This week, we enter continue our journey through the season of Advent as we look to the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy, and love. Preaching from Luke 3:1-6, Pastor of Community Engagement, Rev. Kristin Joyner, challenges us to remember that the salvation that we yearn for is freedom from our separation from God. 

This week, we enter the season of Advent as we look to the fulfillment of hope, peace, joy, and love. Preaching from Luke 21:25-36, Pastor Joe challenges us to notice hope, to be hope for our communities, and to invite others to be that hope together!

This week, Pastor Joe closes out our Pledge Series reminding us to make sure our individual values align with the values of our church so that we can all move towards God's preferred future, together! Thanks to Michael King and Amber Cosand for sharing their story, and if you want to pledge to the ministries of this church, go to https://bothellumc.breezechms.com/form/2025-Pledge-Form .

This week, Pastor Joe launched a two-week sermon series centered around steward and the ways we are called to commit ourselves to love and community. Preaching from Hebrews 10:11-25, he challenges us to let go of the things of old while aligning our values so that we can move forward together!

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 throu...

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. 

This week, Pastor Joe preaches from James 1:17-27 as we wrestle with what it means to follow a Good God and how we might live to embody that!

This week, Pastor Joe concludes our 7-week series journeying through Ephesians remind us that we are not called to be the saviors of the world, but rather to resist the systems that produce and legitimize rulers and the authorities who put power over people so that we can notice the workings of the Holy Spirit that unites us into Beloved Community. 

This week, Pastor Joe continues our journey through Ephesians. Drawing from the context of Ephesians and the movement of the Holy Spirit that unites, Pastor Joe challenges us to live as wise people, knowing the same Holy Spirit that was at work in Ephesus two-thousand years ago is still at work now, uniting us as a people daring to dream of a better world!