Salt House Sermons

This Sunday we continue our fall experience of the foundational prayer, the SHEMA, by diving into what it means to love. What is love? What does love look like both in an ancient Hebrew context and in this current moment we live in? We'll also celebrate the life of love lived by Saint Francis of Assisi.

Don't you wish there was some short mantra that unites us in faith when we are surrounded by ugly division? Hi, it's me, the "Shema"! Sunday, we kickoff the fall sermon series at Salt House as we, week by week, walk through six meaning-packed Hebrew words in Deuteronomy, and hear from community activist Terry Kylo and Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg. The Shema is step one in the call to love God: let's lear...

Salt House is often called a "School of Love." This season, we turn our attention to a foundational Jewish prayer called The Shema. We acknowledge this prayer as a significant influence in the life of Jesus, and therefore, an influence in our lives as we learn to "listen and respond" in love to God and our neighbors. It's step one in the call to love. Join us this season.

Pastor Sara finishes our sermon mini-series as we explore the importance of our IN relationships with friends and family. What did this look like in the early followers of Jesus? What can we do now to grow our own relationships? What opportunities are there for connection and care at Salt House? We need each other, and this Sunday Jesus shows us how to belong more deeply to each other.

It might seem counterintuitive, but Jesus wants you to get OUT. A life invested in following Jesus will be marked, not only by UP in relationship to God and IN with our friends, but also OUT in service to the world and it's needs. Cornell West says, "Justice is what love looks like in public." This Sunday Pastor Ryan will explore Christ's call for us to suffer alongside as a radical act of love......

The kickoff of our three-week mini series on the rhythms of life at Salt House. Pastor Sara invites us to consider the dynamics of our UP, IN, and OUT relationships.

There are lots of ways to engage, grow, and connect at Salt House this season. One of the best ways is through volunteering at Salt House. Not only do you help make this place thrive and hum with goodness, you can find meaningful and lasting connections with others. Check out these ways you can volunteer.

"Deliver Us From Evil" -  Matthew 9:13b This petition of the Lord's prayer seems obvious...no one wants to be subject to evil, right? Pastor Ryan leads us this Sunday through this surprisingly simple and profound element of the Lord's Prayer. Join us for worship at 10:00am and a potluck meal following!

“Save us from the time of trial…” This Sunday, Pastor Sara will explore what it means and what we do as we face hard times. Is God still good if life can be so hard? See you in worship as we continue our summer journey through the Lord’s Prayer.

The gospel writers seem to think that forgiveness is really important to the ministry of Jesus. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray "forgive us as we forgive others." But forgiveness is hard. And what, exactly, does Jesus want us to forgive people for?  Join us for Intern Pastor Zach's last sermon at Salt House as we explore the next part of the Lord's Prayer in our sermon series. 

"Give us this day our daily bread". We go from hallowing God's name and asking for his kingdom to come to earth to asking for bread. What's with that? How did the humble bread make it into one of the most famous teachings of Jesus? And what does it mean for his disciples? And what does it mean for us?

Salt House Treasurer Irwin Dolobowsky gives a finance update and shares how we ended the FY24 fiscal year. Our fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30.

What are we praying for when we pray for God's Kingdom to come? How do we discern God's will from all the voices we hear around us and within us? Join us Sunday, in person or from home, as Pastor Sara leads us into this conversation and experience of prayer in our summer series, Teach Us To Pray.

Here's a question you've never asked, "How do I 'hallow God's name'?" Yet, Jesus seems to think this is a really important thing to pray about. Why? Let's learn together this Sunday as we practice the second petition of the Lord's Prayer. Pastor Ryan will be walking us through and giving us practical exercises for us to make experiments in prayer throughout the week. At the end of our Summer Seaso...

We all want to connect with something beyond ourselves But we also have a lot of questions. What is prayer? What’s happening when we pray? Does God change? Do we change? What about when our prayers seem to go unanswered? Is prayer more than just words? Are any of these your questions?   This summer we take a look at the practice of prayer. Specifically, the Lord's Prayer. And we echo the disciple'...

Do you pray? What do you pray for? How do you pray? What does Jesus say about prayer? This summer at Salt House, we are going to be diving into prayer. We’ll be looking at different prayer practices and exploring what Jesus said about prayer. If prayer is part of your life now, this series will help you lean in and learn more about prayer. And if prayer is something that is new to you, this will b...

Our final core practice in this sermon series is stories matter! When stories are shared, that distance between us gets smaller, as our stories shimmer with connections. When stories are shared, we also hear God’s story in our stories. So this Pride Sunday, we are going to hear a special Salt House story from Gillen! Gillen has been coming to Salt House since last fall, and been an active member o...

In the early days, Salt House was approached with an amazing opportunity to partner with a few organizations that work with homelessness on the Eastside, and we discovered God was calling us to Engage Homeless as a community. 

Good and Sacred things happen when we eat together! We say this a lot--and we eat together a lot--but what do we mean? What are these good and sacred things? Join us on Sunday as we explore our core practice of eating together.

This season at Salt House we are exploring  our core values . This Sunday, as we gather for our annual meeting, Pastor Sara will speak to our core value of Hearing God. People hear God in lots of different ways, and as a community, we believe this is important. We are committed to discerning what God is saying to us and who God is calling us to be. But those aren't simple questions. Join us Sunday...

This season at Salt House we are exploring  our core values . This Sunday, Pastor Ryan is going to look at GENEROSITY. We live in a world that focuses on scarcity. As Jesus followers. we believe in a generous God gives lavishly to us, showering us with abundance in every way. But living like that can be hard--it's certainly counter cultural! Join us to explore how practicing generosity shapes us a...

This Sunday is Pentecost! This Church holiday celebrates the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Christian Church. At Salt House, we celebrate the Sacrament of Holy Baptism on Pentecost, and this year, as part of our sermon series on  our core practices and values  we'll be looking at our practice of Radical Welcome. Join us for a spirit-filled Sunday!

As our fiscal year at Salt House winds down, we are having a lot of conversations about the business of the church. And these conversations are really old conversations. Jesus followers have been having conversations about how to live together in communities that share the same faith since, well, the beginning. These conversations about resources, values, and ways to live are core part of our life...

Last Sunday we finished the Gospel of John. But what happened next? We spent 4 months learning from this text and the Johannine community that helped create it. What happened to them? How did their faith evolve? How does this story continue? Pastor Ryan will show us how John's theology evolved and grew over the generations and what it has to say to us today. Join us!