Root + Branch Church

A guided time of reflection and prayer as we let go of one year and receive another.    Poems: What is Life? by Gregory Orr & To The New Year by W.S. Merwin Music by PS Derdall

Christmas 2023. A sermon by Tim on our responsibilities as parents to the baby Jesus.   

On the possibility of all things happening and not.

Sermon by Tim Kim. September 2023.

Sermon by Tim Kim. Easter 2023.

A farewell sermon from Virginia. She will be missed, and we are thankful for this final blessing she offered!

Preacher: Danny Sanchez All summer long, we've been exploring this strange and compelling (and strangely compelling) idea of God's Kin(g)dom. We've asked questions, like: where is it? When is it? How do we know? What are our hopes for it, as individuals and as a community ? This Sunday is our final Summer service, and we'll be wrapping up our conversation on God's Kin(g)dom (for now) with a call t...

Preacher: Virginia White It's no secret that things are awry in the capital C church. Division, discrimination, deception, death-dealing doctrines, and dire boredom seem to rule the day. Perhaps that's why many of us ended up here at R+B: a little church trying to figure out how to remake belief. We wanted to find (or build) something a bit more wild and alive, and a lot more loving.  Collectively...

Preacher: Tim Kim If you haven't heard, I (Tim) will be going on sabbatical starting in July. Which means this week will be my last service until the fall. Which means I would love to see everyone before I go! Join us as we wrap up the last couple months of conversation around the ideas of Invitation, Contemplation, and Co-creation. If you were at our All Together Meeting, we talked about them bei...

Preacher: Tim Kim Easter 2022. On the death penalty, the quietism of Easter morning, and the intersection of life and death. 

Preacher: Danny Sanchez Pastoral Intern, Danny Sanchez, on what the events of Palm Sunday teach us about getting ready for big things. 

Preacher: Virginia White Reading: Mark 8: 27-35 It might be a surprise that “Lent” has an etymological connection to the word “lengthening.” For many of us, if Lent means anything at all, it evokes ideas about mortality, self-denial, and “giving something up.” But these 40-days don’t end with the cross on Good Friday, they lead to the resurrection on Easter. Just as the world around us welcomes lo...

Preacher: Tim Kim.  Reading: Luke 13:1-9.  Lent is a journey towards Easter, one that involves reflecting on things that many of us might find unpleasant and difficult at the moment. No doubt, death and sin feel very salient at the moment. But, such things need not be dour for dour's sake. After all, as we'll talk about this week, any reflection on death is really a reflection on life.

Preacher: Tim Kim - If Advent is a season of expectant waiting, what does it mean to wait well? How do we prepare with intention and purpose? We often turn in these moments to individual introspection, reflection, meditation. But as the story of Jesus' pre-arrival demonstrates, there is usually a messenger, a message, and a need to listen. Sometimes the messenger takes the form of Mary, as we talk...

Preacher: Virginia White - At the same time as the physical world around us descends into longer nights, colder days, and the stillness of winter, the advent season invites us into a spirit of warm and eager anticipation of the birth of Jesus Christ and the coming of the Messiah into the world. But what does it mean for us to anticipate an event that has already happened in the past? How can we ho...

Easter music, sermon, and prayer specially made for a podcast.  Our recommendation is that you take a walk while you listen with some people you love.   

Sermon by Tim Kim on March 7, 2021 On repentance and the journey home. 

Sermon by Tim Kim on February 21, 2021 First sermon of the season of lent. On getting in touch with our deepest desires and the things that tempt us.

Sermon by Tim Kim on February 7, 2021. What do we think we about when we hear that God Loves Us? Part of our series on meditations on various on God and topics related to Lent.

Sermon for Advent 2020 Preacher: Tim Kim

On Jesus saying love your enemies, do not retaliate against violence, do not judge others, and do unto others as you would have them to do unto you. Crazy things like that. Speaker: Tim Kim

All of us (most of us?...some of us?) want to help turn the tide amid the panoply of awful things going on. But there is such an overwhelming volume of (often contradictory) instruction on what we should do or not do, say or not say. Then there’s the constant debating, gaslighting, and public judgement on the interwebs to deal with. You have the anxiety of all the things mixed with the anxiety to...

In order to address the question “W.T.F.W.J.D.”, we need to get clear on who this Jesus guy actually was. That’s not so easy though when some people make Jesus seem like a gun-toting beer-drinking bro, and others describe him as a radical anti-capitalist, anti-war hippie. More often than not, we may be tempted to co-opt Jesus to our cause. But, that’s not the way of Jesus' followers. Instead, we a...

Intro sermon for our WTFWJD sermon series.  Speaker: Tim Kim

As we try to navigate a time of real upheaval, it is worth wondering what the spiritual dimensions of all this might be. We ask such a question not just because we are a church community, but because the diagnosis and cure for all that a pandemic and racism bring to the surface must also speak to the deeper truths of our humanity. In a strange way, we are often comfortable talking about our own sp...