Podcasts
Our podcasts create 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.
Pearl Church Sermons
Our weekly sermon podcast, updated each Sunday afternoon, provides easy access to teaching from our pastoral team.
Recent Episodes
This week Mike turns from the personal to the collective, hearing Isaiah’s ancient charges against unjust systems alongside our own moment and asking what actually helps a heart and mind pause, listen, and change. The way of Jesus points toward an honest question, a vulnerable story, and a table where people become more than the labels we give one another.
This week, we begin with Accusation and ask why it so often leaves us ashamed and defensive instead of changed. Isaiah reads disaster as God's courtroom charge, but Jesus offers another picture—truth that arrives as light, gently showing us where we are and inviting us toward wholeness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Story & Table
Story & Table exists to make connections between the stories that we tell and the tables that our stories sustain. Through a lens that is intentionally non-violent and non-dominion, Mike Roth explores an ecology of Christian language that sets loving tables, around which humans are freed and inspired to flourish.
Season One
In this final episode of Season One, Mike explains that today’s Christian storytelling on the afterlife is primarily the result of church history, not biblical interpretation. He then traces the evolution of Christian thought on the afterlife to tell a more honest story, that’s capable of setting a more loving table.
In this episode, Mike articulates two vastly different stories of salvation. The first, is a confusing and tragic salvation capable of great harm. The second, is a sensible and truly good salvation capable of making all things new.
In this episode, Mike articulates two vastly different stories of salvation. The first, is a confusing and tragic salvation capable of great harm. The second, is a sensible and truly good salvation capable of making all things new.
In this episode, Mike dives into the Bible story, considering its inciting incident and climax. Depending on interpretation, the Bible story can be a horrifying tragedy or an enlivening comedy.
In this episode, Mike tells two stories about the Bible’s formation, which drastically influence how we understand and read the Bible.
In this episode, Mike tells two gospel stories while teasing out the vastly different tables that each story nurtures and sustains.
