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Sermons at Pearl seek to engage the ancient stories, poems, and letters in the Bible through imaginative oration that rouses our wholeness as human beings. The act of the sermon at Pearl is space to ponder the sacred, opportunity to consider the mystery and love of God, and provocation to slow down, to think deeply, and to be stirred and inspired to bountifully live.

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Oversight Team Reflections: Jen Johnson
just now · 26:33
Speaking: Jen Johnson It's an annual tradition each summer at Pearl Church for us to hear from the members of our Oversight Team. Our Oversight Team ensures that we are cultivating our rhythms according to our values, and oversees our practices, bylaws, budget, and pastors. Beginning August 2, each week a different Oversight Team member will take a turn to share, giving us a chance to know them more deeply and to hear what they dream of for Pearl. In this Oversight Team reflection, Jen Johnson traces family history, a piano career that took an unexpected turn, and a lifelong love of gardening
Oversight Team Reflections: Mike Roth
7d ago · 23:33
Speaking: Mike & Phoebe Roth It's an annual tradition each summer at Pearl Church for us to hear from the members of our Oversight Team. Our Oversight Team ensures that we are cultivating our rhythms according to our values, and oversees our practices, bylaws, budget, and pastors. Beginning August 2, each week a different Oversight Team member will take a turn to share, giving us a chance to know them more deeply and to hear what they dream of for Pearl. This week, Mike Roth reflects on twenty-five years of Pearl's story—from its evangelical roots to the ongoing, sometimes painful work of tear
Oversight Team Reflections: Tym Andrews
12d ago · 21:30
Speaking: Tym Andrews It's an annual tradition each summer at Pearl Church for us to hear from the members of our Oversight Team. Our Oversight Team ensures that we are cultivating our rhythms according to our values, and oversees our practices, bylaws, budget, and pastors. Beginning August 2, each week a different Oversight Team member will take a turn to share, giving us a chance to know them more deeply and to hear what they dream of for Pearl. This week's message comes from Tym Andrews, sharing his hot takes and his honest reckoning with the fear of being fully known—and how Pearl has crea
Oversight Team Reflections: Leah Griffin
21d ago · 20:01
Speaking: Leah Griffin It's an annual tradition each summer at Pearl Church for us to hear from the members of our Oversight Team. Our Oversight Team ensures that we are cultivating our rhythms according to our values, and oversees our practices, bylaws, budget, and pastors. Beginning August 2, each week a different Oversight Team member will take a turn to share, giving us a chance to know them more deeply and to hear what they dream of for Pearl. This week, Leah Griffin shares their experience of finding every part of themselves welcome and safe at our Common Table, where we are all invited
Oversight Team Reflections: Valinda Harlan
28d ago
Speaking: Dr. Valinda Harlan It's an annual tradition each summer at Pearl Church for us to hear from the members of our Oversight Team. Our Oversight Team ensures that we are cultivating our rhythms according to our values, and oversees our practices, bylaws, budget, and pastors. Beginning August 2, each week a different Oversight Team member will take a turn to share, giving us a chance to know them more deeply and to hear what they dream of for Pearl. This week, Dr. Valinda Harlan traces her own path—from a strict, us-versus-them upbringing to a large, diverse family—to describe what holds
Love: Orientation that Abides
1mo ago
Preaching: Mike Roth We live in a world in which things are always changing—certainty, health, relationships, even the version of faith we grew up with. And yet Paul, writing to a community tearing itself apart, lands on three things he insists will outlast everything else: faith, hope, and love. To be clear, these aren’t achievements to master or doctrines to defend, but the very shape of a life oriented toward God. In this series, we'll sit with these three ancient, yet lasting gifts and seek to rest deeply into them, even when everything else is stripped away. This week, Mike closes out the
Hope: Critique that Beckons
1mo ago · 20:38
Preaching: Mike Roth We live in a world in which things are always changing—certainty, health, relationships, even the version of faith we grew up with. And yet Paul, writing to a community tearing itself apart, lands on three things he insists will outlast everything else: faith, hope, and love. To be clear, these aren’t achievements to master or doctrines to defend, but the very shape of a life oriented toward God. In this series, we'll sit with these three ancient, yet lasting gifts and seek to rest deeply into them, even when everything else is stripped away. This week, Pastor Mike turns t
Faith: Mystery that Grounds
1mo ago · 21:51
Preaching: Mike Roth We live in a world in which things are always changing—certainty, health, relationships, even the version of faith we grew up with. And yet Paul, writing to a community tearing itself apart, lands on three things he insists will outlast everything else: faith, hope, and love. To be clear, these aren’t achievements to master or doctrines to defend, but the very shape of a life oriented toward God. In this series, we'll sit with these three ancient, yet lasting gifts and seek to rest deeply into them, even when everything else is stripped away. This week we begin with faith—
Liberation: Mary & James Cone
1mo ago · 24:36
Preaching: Ben Conachan During the long stretch of the Christian year from Advent to Pentecost, we are invited to ponder the mysteries of Christ: incarnation, atonement, resurrection. The remainder of the year, Ordinary Time, turns to the generations of every day saints, the Jesus-followers who keep pushing the Divine Story forward. In an age where American Christianity seems to have lost the plot, we can turn to the stories and examples of mystics and poets, women and outsiders who have kept the way of Jesus alive in times ancient and modern. This series will explore pairs of saints whose liv
Feminism: Julian of Norwich & Anne Sexton
2mo ago · 24:28
Preaching: Mike Roth During the long stretch of the Christian year from Advent to Pentecost, we are invited to ponder the mysteries of Christ: incarnation, atonement, resurrection. The remainder of the year, Ordinary Time, turns to the generations of every day saints, the Jesus-followers who keep pushing the Divine Story forward. In an age where American Christianity seems to have lost the plot, we can turn to the stories and examples of mystics and poets, women and outsiders who have kept the way of Jesus alive in times ancient and modern. This series will explore pairs of saints whose lives
Mysticism: Meister Eckhart & Bruno Barnhart
2mo ago · 26:54
Preaching: Ben Conachan During the long stretch of the Christian year from Advent to Pentecost, we are invited to ponder the mysteries of Christ: incarnation, atonement, resurrection. The remainder of the year, Ordinary Time, turns to the generations of every day saints, the Jesus-followers who keep pushing the Divine Story forward. In an age where American Christianity seems to have lost the plot, we can turn to the stories and examples of mystics and poets, women and outsiders who have kept the way of Jesus alive in times ancient and modern. This series will explore pairs of saints whose liv
Science: St. Hildegard of Bingen & Ilia Delio
2mo ago · 26:18
Preaching: Mike Roth During the long stretch of the Christian year from Advent to Pentecost, we are invited to ponder the mysteries of Christ: incarnation, atonement, resurrection. The remainder of the year, Ordinary Time, turns to the generations of every day saints, the Jesus-followers who keep pushing the Divine Story forward. In an age where American Christianity seems to have lost the plot, we can turn to the stories and examples of mystics and poets, women and outsiders who have kept the way of Jesus alive in times ancient and modern. This series will explore pairs of saints whose lives
Creation: St. Francis & Wendell Berry
2mo ago · 26:00
Preaching: Ben Conachan During the long stretch of the Christian year from Advent to Pentecost, we are invited to ponder the mysteries of Christ: incarnation, atonement, resurrection. The remainder of the year, Ordinary Time, turns to the generations of every day saints, the Jesus-followers who keep pushing the Divine Story forward. In an age where American Christianity seems to have lost the plot, we can turn to the stories and examples of mystics and poets, women and outsiders who have kept the way of Jesus alive in times ancient and modern. This series will explore pairs of saints whose liv
Trinity Sunday: The Divine Dance
3mo ago · 25:57
Preaching: Megan E.M. Today, the First Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate Trinity Sunday–a feast day that the universal Church has commemorated since 1334 A.D. In one sense, every Sunday is a festival of the Trinity because the whole Trinity is at work in every moment, brooding over chaos and calling forth life, catching creation up into the dance of renewal and transformation. Co-equal, self-giving, mutually loving, the ancient picture of the Trinity as a dancing circle–perichoresis–inviting humanity into the all-inclusive feast of belonging. Pearl Church exists to express a sacred story an
Babel & Pentecost
3mo ago · 21:28
Preaching: Ben Conachan The Tower of Babel is one of the oldest stories about what happens when people are pulled apart. Pentecost is the answer to it. On the day the Spirit came, the walls came down. Not because everyone became the same—but because God's love is wide enough to hold every language, every story, every person. Pearl Church exists to express a sacred story and to extend a common table that animate life by love. A primary expression of our sacred story is the weekly sermon. If our sermons inspire you to ponder the sacred, to consider the mystery and love of God, and to live bounti
Words with Authority (Matthew 7:13-29)
3mo ago · 21:33
Preaching: Mike Roth At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belonging
Ask, Seek, Knock (Matthew 7:1-12)
3mo ago
Preaching: Ben Conachan At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belong
Prayer & Presence (Matthew 6:9-15, 25-34)
3mo ago · 28:23
Preaching: Mike Roth At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belonging
Practices of Belonging (Matthew 6:1-8, 16-24)
4mo ago · 22:55
Preaching: Ben Conachan At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belong
The Law of Love (Matthew 5:21-48)
4mo ago · 26:00
Preaching: Mike Roth At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belonging
The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-20)
4mo ago · 23:24
Preaching: Ben Conachan At the center of the sacred story we tell, week in and week out, is the mystery of Resurrection: life from death, light from darkness, creation from chaos. This story has occupied a central place in the Christian imagination because it points to a new way to live. In this series, we are exploring the way of life Jesus sets forth in his Sermon on the Mount. Resurrection speaks over every life, “You, whoever you are, whatever your circumstances, you are blessed because Divine Love is with you.” This vision of the resurrection life opens up new ways of being such as belong
Easter Sunday: Flowering Crosses
4mo ago · 19:41
Preaching: Mike Roth Eastertide is a fifty day celebration between Resurrection Sunday and Pentecost. During this season, the altar is dressed in white to symbolize Christ’s triumph over darkness, sorrow, sin, and death. Golden communion vessels represent our joy as we celebrate, in the mystery of Jesus’ resurrection, the victory of life over death. The vibrant colors of the flowers remind us that the power that raised Christ from the dead is still at work redeeming and renewing this world and each of our lives.
Palm Sunday: Our Many Animations
5mo ago · 23:20
Preaching: Jen Johnson At Pearl Church, we seek to express a sacred story and extend a common table that animate—move, motivate, inspire—our lives by Divine Love. Very often we find ourselves animated not by love, but by all-too familiar counterfeits like shame, fear, guilt, duty, and control. In this sermon series, we look to the life of Jesus, who turns a gentle and compassionate face toward people caught up in these animations, creating space for us to listen for the voice of love that beckons even in our deepest wounds and darkness. For love is strong enough to embrace and integrate all th
Loving Control
5mo ago · 22:38
Preaching: Ben Conachan At Pearl Church, we seek to express a sacred story and extend a common table that animate—move, motivate, inspire—our lives by Divine Love. Very often we find ourselves animated not by love, but by all-too familiar counterfeits like shame, fear, guilt, duty, and control. In this sermon series, we look to the life of Jesus, who turns a gentle and compassionate face toward people caught up in these animations, creating space for us to listen for the voice of love that beckons even in our deepest wounds and darkness. For love is strong enough to embrace and integrate all t
Loving Duty
5mo ago · 24:52
Preaching: Mike Roth At Pearl Church, we seek to express a sacred story and extend a common table that animate—move, motivate, inspire—our lives by Divine Love. Very often we find ourselves animated not by love, but by all-too familiar counterfeits like shame, fear, guilt, duty, and control. In this sermon series, we look to the life of Jesus, who turns a gentle and compassionate face toward people caught up in these animations, creating space for us to listen for the voice of love that beckons even in our deepest wounds and darkness. For love is strong enough to embrace and integrate all thes

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Oversight Team Reflections: Jen Johnson

Oversight Team Reflections: Mike Roth

Oversight Team Reflections: Tym Andrews

Oversight Team Reflections: Leah Griffin

Oversight Team Reflections: Valinda Harlan

Love: Orientation that Abides

Hope: Critique that Beckons

Faith: Mystery that Grounds

Liberation: Mary & James Cone

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Creation: St. Francis & Wendell Berry

Trinity Sunday: The Divine Dance

Babel & Pentecost

Words with Authority (Matthew 7:13-29)

Ask, Seek, Knock (Matthew 7:1-12)

Prayer & Presence (Matthew 6:9-15, 25-34)

Practices of Belonging (Matthew 6:1-8, 16-24)

The Law of Love (Matthew 5:21-48)

The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-20)

Easter Sunday: Flowering Crosses

Palm Sunday: Our Many Animations

Loving Control

Loving Duty