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
252 episodes
Life of Faith 2 (Hebrews 11:29-12:2)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith by turning to the great cloud of witnesses. How can we be buoyed by those who have gone before us, and how might we be part of that cloud of witnesses...
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Life of Faith 1 (Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16)
This week, we welcome Rev. Wim Mauldin to the pulpit as he launches this four-week series on what it means to live a life of faith!
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Clothed with Love (Colossians 3:1-17)
This week, we turn to the letter to the Colossians and explore how we are being called to posture ourselves clothed with love. Pastor Joe challenges us to consider what it might mean for us to be known, not only for what we are for or against, ...
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35th Anniversary of ADA (Luke 14:15-23)
This week, we welcome former intern, Angela Molloy, as we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Angela is a congenitally disabled cradle Methodist who is currently studying in Denver in the Iliff/DU Joint Doctor...
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Called to... Transformation (Colossians 1:15-28)
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our five-week series on Calling by turning to Colossians 1:15-28. He challenges us to be a church that knows our "why" so that we can participate in God's ongoing work towards a world where all are welcome and all...
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Called to... Speak Prophetically (Amos 7:7-17)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to Amos 7:7-17. He wonders if we’re in a season when we are called to be modern-day prophets in a world that desperately needs them, especially as we notice the ways the st...
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Called to... Comfort (Isaiah 66:10-14)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to the words of the Third Isaiah in Isaiah 66. He reminds us that we are living in a time when Christianity—particularly in the U.S.—is being reshaped by loud voices...
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Called to... Connection (2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14)
This week, Pastor Joe continues our sermon series on Calling by turning to the story of Elijah and Elisha and the call to connection. He reminds us that connection is a direct challenge to empire and challenges us to pick up the mantles of God'...
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Called to... Self-Care (1 Kings 19:1-14)
In light of all that's happening in the world, Pastor Joe launches a new sermon series about calling, focusing this week on rest. He reminds us that in the midst of challenging empire and crying out for peace, the arc of the universe is long, s...
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Freedom: Juneteenth and Pride (Exodus 3:7-12)
This week, we welcomed Dr. Cee E. Adamson for a conversation with Pastor Joe on the theme of Freedom. How does God's liberating work continue on in us and through us, especially as we honor Pride and Juneteenth?
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Pentecost 2025 (Acts 2:1-21)
This week we celebrate Pentecost! Turning to Acts 2:1-21, Pastor Joe challenges us to remember that Pentecost resists sameness and amplifies difference so that all might be celebrated and welcomed into God's community of belonging.
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Gathering and Belonging 4 (Acts 16:16-34)
This week, Pastor Joe wraps up our series on Gathering and Belonging by turning to the story of Paul and Silas in the prison in Acts 16:16-34. In his sermon, he challenges us to be and to bring the Good News of a God who is love, which m...
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Gathering and Belonging 3 (Acts 16:9-15)
This week, we welcome the Rev. Liz Kearny from Liberating Lineages Collective as she continues our Gathering and Belonging series by turning to Lydia's story in Acts 16:9-15. In her sermon, she challenges us to finally embrace that the good new...
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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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