Sermon Archive
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.
The Prophetic Spiral: An Introduction
This week Mike Roth asks what it looks like to hold onto hope when the world feels like it's coming undone. Drawing on Isaiah, he traces a pattern the prophets saw long before us—naming what's broken, feeling its weight, and trusting that even now, something is being made new.
The Story of the Bible
In a tradition at Pearl for the month of September, we’re revisiting the story of the Bible. We’ll step back and consider the whole arc of the Bible, exploring this library of ancient, messy, intriguing and sacred stories that ground our community.
Oversight Team Reflections: Ben Conachan
To close our summer of Oversight Team reflections, this week traces one pastor's evolving relationship with prayer—from childhood petitions and their unsettling questions, through ancient fixed-hour rhythms and wordless silence, to a compassion that that holds everyone's suffering and joy as one.
Oversight Team Reflections: Jen Johnson
In this Oversight Team reflection, Jen Johnson traces family history, a piano career that took an unexpected turn, and a lifelong love of gardening to talk about what she's come to trust about Pearl—that tension can be held without resolving it, that imperfect gifts still fit, and that we grow best through the seasons, together.
