Bothell Amplified
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292 episodes
Pentecost Sunday 2026
This Sunday, we welcomed Rev. Cruz Edwin Santos, Director of Hispanic/Latinx Ministries for the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church as we celebrated Pentecost Sunday! He shared how the miracle of Pentecost wasn't that ev...
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Resurrection People 6 (1 Peter 4:12–14; 5:6–11)
This week, we conclude our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. What might it mean for us to be formed, not by trust, but by trust in the One who restores, strengthens, and establishes us?
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Resurrection People 5 (1 Peter 3:13-22)
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to ruled by fear and instead, speak boldly, truthfully, and...
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Resurrection People 4 (1 Peter 2:18-25)
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to form us in empire's image, how might we be refuse to mirror the violence of the world and respond in love?
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Resurrection People 3 (1 Peter 2:2-10)
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that builds us with fear, power, and control, how might we be built together with belonging and love?
Resurrection People 2 (1 Peter 1:17-23)
This week, we continue our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be re-formed by love?
Resurrection People 1 (1 Peter 1:3–9)
This week, we launch our post-Easter sermon series, exploring what it means to live as Resurrection People. In a world that tries to shape us by fear, how might we be challenged to embody living hope?
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Easter 2026: Resistance (Matthew 28:1-10)
Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to remember that resurrection is not only something we celebrate, but a way of becoming the people God calls us to be!
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Lent as Resistance: Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:1-11)
This week, Pastor Joe continues to focus on resistance as a theme for Lent as we journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on what is known as Palm Sunday. He challenges us to take a side: to either align with power and empire or to follow Christ into ...
Lent as Resistance: Death (John 11:17-27)
This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we might resist death. Resurrection is not only about what happens later. It is what happens whenever life breaks through now. And if resurrection is happening now, then...
Lent as Resistance: Blame (John 9:1-7, 24-34)
This week, we continue our journey through Lent as Resistance and how we can resist blame. We named how Lent invites us to notice how quickly we explain suffering by assigning fault, and how we can choose to live a different way by looking for ...
Lent as Resistance: Division (John 4:4-19, 28-30, 42)
This week, we welcomed Tricia Hansen to continue sharing through our theme, Lent as Resistance, and how we can resist division. She challenged us to receive this encounter with the woman at the well so that we might know the presence of Christ,...
Lent as Resistance: Certainty (John 3:1-17)
This week, we continue through our theme, Lent as Resistance, by exploring how Lent challenges us to resist certainty. How might we release control and live differently into God's preferred future?
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Lent as Resistance: Empire (Matthew 4:1-11)
This week, we launched our Lent Series looking at Lent as Resistance by exploring how we resist empire. How might God be affirming and re-affirming our inherent Belovedness and inviting us to resist empire that tries to take that away?
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Transfiguration Sunday
This past Sunday, we heard from a member of our church, Angela Molloy, a doctoral candidate in the joint Iliff School of Theology/Denver University program and the Disability Ministries Committee Chair for the Greater Northwest Conference of th...
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Transformed: Conditions (Matthew 5:13-20)
This week, Pastor Joe concludes our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Conditions. After Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he continues by declaring the gathered to be the salt and light. How might we live into that identity so that our...
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Transformed: Relationships (Matthew 5:1-12)
This week, we continue our series on Transformation turning to Transformed Relationships. When Jesus shares the Beatitudes, he makes a declaration describing the kind of community that emerges when people are re-centered around God instead of p...
Transformed: People (Matthew 4:12-23)
This week, we launch a new series focusing on our stated goals: Transformed People, Transformed Relationships, Transformed Conditions. How might God be inviting us into personal transformation so that we can move towards God's preferred future?...
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Gifts from Jesus 3: Curiosity (John 1:29-42)
This week, we wrap up our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus invites us into curiosity as a way of being so that we might let go of certainty and control, and instead lean into God's preferred future together.
Gifts from Jesus 2: Community (Matthew 3:13-17)
This week, we continue our sermon series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus first embedded himself in the community before the launch of his community. How do we turn to each other and lean into shared life as we name one another as B...
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Gifts from Jesus (Matthew 2:1-12)
Happy New Year! This week, we launched a new series called Gifts from Jesus, exploring how Jesus reshapes the ways we live our lives. Turning to the arrival of the Magi in Matthew 2, we reflect on the Gift of Wonder and how wonder leads us to t...
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Christmas Eve 2025
On Christmas Eve, Pastor Joe reflected on how God invites us to "Make Room". When we make room for God, something else also begins to happen: Making room for God reshapes how we make room for people!
Desperate Measures 4 (Matthew 1:18-25)
This week, we conclude our Advent Series, "Desperate Measures", by turning to God's ongoing story of love made real to the world. How might God be inviting us to be present in incarnational love this week for our communities?
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