Cascade Church Portland

Cara Bartlett shares about being the world's foremost expert on self control (jk), scriptural examples of self-control and 5th grade haiku's. 

Scott Erickson shares about turd sandwiches, Caravaggio paintings and how the words of Father Greg Boyle that we are all unshakably good and we belong to each other can propel us into faithfulness. 

Kurt Kroon talks about goodness vs. generosity and a study at UCLA about the connection of empathy and generosity. 

Scott Erickson does his best (and it's very good!) Ira Glass impression to talk about kindness from the fruits of the spirit in several acts. Take a listen and see which act you connect most with as you consider the practice of kindness in our world. 

Sarah Swartzendruber talks about road trips, smoking noses and the challenge of patience without a preferred outcome in sight. 

Kurt Kroon shares about peace as a bringing together of all things, not cutting off the noisy parts of us, others and our world. Shalom.

Kurt Kroon explores the difference between joy & happiness and what can take you through the hardest moments in life. 

Kurt Kroon shares about how love in the ways that Paul builds up his definition of love throughout his writings and how it starts with understanding God as the definition of love. 

Kurt Kroon shares about sassy Paul, reading other people's mail and the ways the Fruits of the Spirit invites a better way of practicing Christianity than "right" belief. 

Kurt Kroon talks about candy conventions, unrecognizable walks with Jesus and how we can be people beyond ideological labels and instead be people producing good fruit. 

Scott Erickson shares about the 23rd Psalm, life in the shadow of death and meals with "enemies". 

Kurt Kroon shares about dementors (not death eaters), trees without fruit and the ways we've obsessed about ideological identity over practical participation in spirituality. 

Harriet Congdon shares about outgrowing shells for a life in the ocean, relational conflicts around religion, and finding new ways to belong. 

Kurt Kroon talks about Mary & Martha and the ways that we can demonstrate hospitality and let the roles we accepted by choice or force pass away for more expansive roles. 

Kurt Kroon shares about Marlboro Man Richard Hammer, Cheryl Strayed and the ways that we can let the independent dream die for a new dream of interdependence. 

Kurt Kroon talks about the relationship of love and grief and how one informs the other. Take a listen to ask new questions of the things you're rightly grieving these days. 

Kurt Kroon shares about romenesco broccoli, the woman at the well to the feeding of the 15,000 (take a listen if this sounds wrong!), and how asking new questions of the scriptures can help us break out of a bad relationship with them. 

Sarah Swartzendruber shares about the power transformation that the scriptures can initiate if we're willing to process where we've come from and the ways we've been given permissions externally and internally to change. 

Kurt Kroon shares about the way that Lord of the Rings, the high five emoji (prayer hands) and the Jesus/Superman/Luke Skywalker stories and the way the scriptures influence the world around us. 

Harriet Congdon explores how storytelling impacts us utilizing a clip from Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man and a new song led by Sam Hedrick. 

Scott Erickson leads us through a conversation about ayahausca trips, a magical monastery, and the ways the scriptures have been used as a tool to destroy or restore. Scott also failed at his task of never being asked to preach again. 

Kurt Kroon starts off our new message series exploring the scriptures and if they are still worth engaging today. Come for the statistical analysis of Bible sales in 2024 and 2025 and stay for another look at the Ethiopian Eunuch. 

Kurt Kroon shares about the nomadic home of the shepherds and ways we can keep that home with us, even when we're in the wilderness.

Kurt Kroon explores the nature of home, how Jesus shows up to call this world his home and how we leave home to adventure and return to tell the stories of our successes and failures. 

Kurt kroon concludes the series on Esther by looking at the tradition of Purim and how we remember what we repeat.