Bothell Amplified
Welcome to our podcast, Bothell Amplified! Join Pastor Joe of Bothell United Methodist Church and the greater Bothell (Washington) community as we navigate the ways our faith impacts our daily lives! Visit us at bothellumc.org Produced by: Mack Britton Productions
Episodes
239 episodes
Gathering and Belonging 2 (Acts 11:1-18)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Gathering and Belonging by turning to Peter retelling his experiences before the believers in Jerusalem. In this sermon, he reminds us that it is often institutionalized religion that hinders...
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Gathering and Belonging 1 (Acts 9:36-43)
This week, we begin a new sermon series called "Gathering and Belonging" as Pastor Kristin challenges us to read the story of God's people, and especially this text of Tabitha being resurrected, as one of inclusion and belonging!
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Post-Resurrection Stories 2 (John 21:1-19)
This week, Pastor Joe continues in the series, Post-Resurrection Stories, by turning to when Jesus met the disciples on the beach. In this sermon, he reminds us to remember who we are by trusting in a therapeutic God who desires relationship wi...
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Post-Resurrection Stories 1 (John 20:19-31)
This week, Pastor Joe shares about the disciples' experience of encountering Jesus soon after the Resurrection and challenges us to be resurrected people, not about certainty or lack of doubt, but about belief that is relationship. In a world b...
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Easter 2025 (Luke 24:1-12)
Happy Easter! This week, Pastor Joe reminds us that Easter is a call to resistance against empire. He challenges us to find intentionally rest and to remember the ways of Jesus for the sake of the kin-dom.
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Journey with Jesus: Palm Sunday 2025 (Luke 19:28-40)
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 ...
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Journeying with Jesus: Lent 5 (John 12:1-8)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our Lenten Journey with Jesus and the theme of resistance by turning to John 12:1-8 when Mary anoints Jesus. He suggests that much of this text is intended to be subversive and challenges us to resist the ways of...
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Journeying with Jesus: Lent 4 (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
This week, we continue our Lent series, Journeying with Jesus, by turning to what is often called the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Pastor Joe offers that this text is more for religious folk, and could be named, as others have suggested, the Pa...
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Journeying with Jesus: Lent 3 (Luke 13:1-9)
This week, our Director of Discipleship and Care, Brian Fu, continues our Lent Journey with Jesus by challenging us to understand repentance and resistance as a turning our face to God and to one another.
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Journeying with Jesus: Lent 2 (Luke 5:17-26)
This week, we welcome the Rev. Ben Bond from Disability Belongs who preaches from Luke 5:17-26. In their sermon, Ben challenges us to do the hard work of both removing physically barriers to accessibility and to shift our attitudes towards disa...
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Journeying with Jesus: Lent 1 (Luke 4:1-13)
This week, we celebrate the first Sunday in Lent and turn to the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Pastor Joe challenges us to journey through this season as a time of resistance against the powers of empire and to offer to the world a dif...
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Transfiguration Sunday (Luke 9:28-36)
This week at Bothell, we are joined by our friend Reverend David Valera, Executive Director of Connectional Ministries of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Reverend Valera preaches from Luke 9:28-36.
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Upside Down Economy 2 (Psalm 37:1-11)
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our sermon series called Upside Down Economy by turning to the Psalms and exploring the things the psalmist calls us to do, built on a relationship with God!
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Upside Down Economy 1 (Luke 6:17-26)
This week, we launch a new series called Upside Down Economy. Pastor Joe preaches from Luke 6:17-26 as Jesus teaches from the plains a new way of living, one that challenges the ways of the world!
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Called 2 (Isaiah 6:1-8)
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our short two-week series about Calling, challenging us to remember that while calling is a personal matter, the expression of that calling only happens in community to challenge the status quo as we journey towar...
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Called 1 (Jeremiah 1:4-10)
This week, we welcome one of our Pastoral Interns, Steph Cuthbertson, who shared from Jeremiah 1:4-10. Together, we navigated four myths of calling and explored how each of us is called to bring peace and justice into the world!
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Living with Joy 4 (1 Corinthians 12:12-31)
This week, Pastor Joe concludes our four-week series called Living with Joy by turning to 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 and exploring how we might recognize God's unconditional love in each other. Ya'll means all and we need each other to survive!
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Living with Joy 3 (John 2:1-11)
This week, Pastor Joe continued our series Living with Joy and preached from John 2:1-11 and the wedding in Cana. In his message, he challenged us to live into the abundance of joy and to claim God's unconditional love for us and for our commun...
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Living with Joy 2 (Luke 3:15-22)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our series called Living with Joy, preaching from Luke 3:15-22. As he reflects on the baptism of Jesus, he challenges us to think of living with joy as an opportunity to connect to God in prayer to claim our own ...
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Living with Joy 1 (Matthew 2:1-12)
In this episode, we launch a new sermon series called Living with Joy as we start the New Year looking to the Magi who came to worship Jesus! Preaching from Matthew 2:1-12, Pastor Joe challenges us to move away from certainty and to live into t...
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Wrapping Up 2024 (Colossians 3:12-17)
Join Pastor Joe and Pastor Kristin as they share on Colossians 3:12-17. They also reflect on 2024 and look forward to 2025!
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Christmas Eve 2024 (Luke 2:1-20)
On Christmas Eve, Pastor Joe reflected on how God encounters us through "holy interruptions." Perhaps the Good News for us in this season is that God is up to something in us and through us - may we lean into the mystery of what God is doing an...
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Advent 2024 Part 4 (Luke 1:39-55)
This week, we welcome back to Bothell Angela Molloy, our former pastoral intern and now a student in Denver in the Iliff/DU Joint Doctoral Program. As we journey towards Christmas Eve, she challenges us to remember the "subversive and revolutio...
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