Salt House Sermons

This Sunday is a huge treat! The service is created and led by our Salt House Youth. Connor, a Bothell High School junior, will be offering the message on the name of God El Shaddai - God Almighty. It's a story full of different kinds of laughter - and God promises, "Oh, you will laugh." Come enjoy this awesome offering of praise.

What is it about the name of Jesus? So ordinary, but also so extraordinary! Those who knew him best gave him three titles: Christ, Savior, and Lord. Let's look at these as we respond to his question, 'Who do you say that I am?'

A finance update for Q2 FY25 with Salt House Treasurer Irwin Dolobowsky!

As we continue to explore the richness of the names of God this Epiphany season, join us this Sunday as we explore Psalm 23, the most well-known and beloved of the Psalms, as we get to know God as our Yahweh-Rohi, our Shepherd-Lord.

This Sunday, as we continue to explore the names and character of God, we'll receive the name El Roi: "The God Who Sees Me." What a word for us and our world, for the ways we feel deeply hidden, unseen, or unknown!

When we are wrestling God in hopes of discovering God's name, something unexpected happens; we are given a new name. But it's only in surrender. Hello, your name is....

What can God's name tell us about how to interpret and approach challenges in our life?  In this Sunday's sermon we'll go up the "Mountain of Seeing" to see what God wants to show us about who he is when the most important promises are at stake and life is a dumpster fire. Get introduced to God, again, or for the first time, in our sermon series called, "Hello, My Name Is..."

Names matter. Which is why this winter, we are getting to know God through the names revealed in the Bible. This Sunday, we explore the name of God: YHWH is Peace/Shalom. Timely! On the eve of MLK Jr. Day and the Presidential Inauguration, how can this epiphany change the way we see not only God, but ourselves and our mission in life?

"Hello, My Name Is...."  In this winter's sermon series, we are getting to know God through the names revealed in the Bible. This week we start off with a doozy: El-Kanna/Jealous God! Why would God's jealousy be good news?? And how can this epiphany change the way we see not only God, but ourselves and our mission in life?

Hello My Name is...sermon series at Salt House Church

Happy New Year! It's 2025 and we are jumping into this new season with a special invitation into scripture through Biblio-Drama. Sean Mobley will guide us into a dramatic retelling of the visit of the Magi in the second chapter of Matthew. Bring your imagination and openness to the Spirit as we explore the many possible facets of this story and see the new depths of epiphany hidden in the text for...

Christmas Eve at Salt House! Pastor Sara brings a message of good news for the weary and broken hearted this season. Christ is born!

Our season of hope is coming to its Christmas destination, but we have one more promise to unwrap - the promise of justice. We cry with the whole creation, "God, come and make all things all right." Mother Mary will lead us in song as we look to her Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) and ask the Advent question, "When will justice arrive?"

Pastor Sara and Pastor Ryan have a short greeting for you as we come to the end of 2024. We’ve had a pretty amazing year and it’s largely because of YOU and the ways you’ve shown up and given financially to Salt House. As you consider your year-end giving, please keep Salt House in mind. We’ve historically seen some amazing gifts come in during the month of December. These donations are crucial as...

It’s time for JOY! During the first two weeks of Advent, our community has been readying  our hearts for Jesus’ birth. But what have the kids been up to? How are they preparing? We find out this Sunday during worship with the Christmas Play, Where in the World is Christmas? Please join us for this special presentation during worship this Sunday, the 15th, with our Salt House kids.

"Christ is coming!" "When?"   "Right now!" "Really?! What should I do?" "Get prepared." "How?" That's what we're listening for this second week of Advent - how do we prepare for Christ's right-now arrival. John the Forerunner says, "turn!" How do you prepare yourself for Christ coming to you - turn away from sin and turn to Christ. And what we find in Christ is.... compassion. I want to tell you a...

Advent is here! In this "most wonderful time of the year," many of us are feeling weighed down with the weariness of our wider world, in addition to our personal struggles, even as we're surrounded by the glow of twinkly lights and jamming carols. This Sunday Pastor Sara kicks off our journey to Christmas with our new sermon series, The Weary World Rejoices, making room for the complexity of this...

Advent a season of waiting weariness in our bones and glimpses of a future hope yet to be realized Join us at Salt House this Advent Season for enlightening words and rhythms that point us toward the promises of God, binding us together a people who, while yet in darkness, have seen a great light.

We are barreling toward Thanksgiving, but gratitude might feel like an impossible lift for many of us. St. Paul tells us there is a secret of contentment (Philippians 4). And this Sunday we're letting the cat out of the bag so that we can all be in on this secret. Anyone interested in contentment? See you there!

What do we do with the hate that we see in ourselves and in our wider world at any time, and especially in the aftermath of the election? Our final week with the great Hebrew prayer, the Shema, we land in the final word of our sermon studies: to love God with all our strength (Me'od).  This Sunday, Pastor Sara leads us into the surprising meaning of this word. We'll wrestle with the deep how's and...

Meet Reverend Terry Kyllo as he offers a particularly poignant post-election sermon this Sunday at Salt House. In his decade's-long work to counter dehumanization and encourage interfaith relationships, Rev. Kyllo realized many Christians struggled to find their “Why” for knowing and partnering with other wisdom traditions. To make interfaith work possible, the Christian majority needs to discover...

Meet Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg from Kol Ami Center for Jewish Life. Here we are learning ancient Hebrew words and studying the Shema, which happens to be the most important prayer in all of Judaism. So we thought, "Hey, we should learn from our neighborhood Rabbi!" Join us Sunday to welcome and learn from Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg for a teaching on the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) from a Jewish perspective a...

This Sunday is our Pumpkin Party! It's the season to have fun with fear, so that fear doesn't have fun with us. And surprise! The Shema comes to us as a fear-buster. Through God's Word spoken to us, we're given the courage to stick our neck out, loving God with all our soul (nephesh), which is pretty terrifying if you think about it. But in a complete reversal of the world's wisdom, fear of God li...

What does it mean to, "Love the Lord our God with all of our heart"? This Sunday, as we continue through the ancient prayer of the SHEMA, we unpack our understanding of what the heart is, what it's for...and we'll find that it all does not mean what we think it means! Come and find hope and encouragement this Sunday.

Are you ready to have your mind blown?  Seriously. Secrets of the universe will be revealed in this Sunday's sermon as we continue our series on the Shema and look at the personal name of God. Bring your thinking cap with you - you'll need it, but be ready for it to no longer fit.