Cascade Church Portland

Dreams that are Dying:: Trees without Fruit

Kurt Kroon shares about dementors (not death eaters), trees without fruit and the ways we've obsessed about ideological identity over practical participation in spirituality. 

Dreams that are Dying:: Relationships without Conflict

Harriet Congdon shares about outgrowing shells for a life in the ocean, relational conflicts around religion, and finding new ways to belong. 

Dreams that are Dying:: Fixed for Expansive Roles

Kurt Kroon talks about Mary & Martha and the ways that we can demonstrate hospitality and let the roles we accepted by choice or force pass away for more expansive roles. 

Dreams that are Dying :: Value of Interdependence

Kurt Kroon shares about Marlboro Man Richard Hammer, Cheryl Strayed and the ways that we can let the independent dream die for a new dream of interdependence. 

Love & Grief

Kurt Kroon talks about the relationship of love and grief and how one informs the other. Take a listen to ask new questions of the things you're rightly grieving these days. 

Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Asking New Questions

Kurt Kroon shares about romenesco broccoli, the woman at the well to the feeding of the 15,000 (take a listen if this sounds wrong!), and how asking new questions of the scriptures can help us break out of a bad relationship with them. 

Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Transformation

Sarah Swartzendruber shares about the power transformation that the scriptures can initiate if we're willing to process where we've come from and the ways we've been given permissions externally and internally to change. 

Why Engage the Scriptures?:: The Culture

Kurt Kroon shares about the way that Lord of the Rings, the high five emoji (prayer hands) and the Jesus/Superman/Luke Skywalker stories and the way the scriptures influence the world around us. 

Why Engage the Scriptures? :: The Power of Storytelling

Harriet Congdon explores how storytelling impacts us utilizing a clip from Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man and a new song led by Sam Hedrick. 

Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Destroy or Restore

Scott Erickson leads us through a conversation about ayahausca trips, a magical monastery, and the ways the scriptures have been used as a tool to destroy or restore. Scott also failed at his task of never being asked to preach again.