Cascade Church Portland

Fruit of the Spirit:: Patience

Sarah Swartzendruber talks about road trips, smoking noses and the challenge of patience without a preferred outcome in sight. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Peace

Kurt Kroon shares about peace as a bringing together of all things, not cutting off the noisy parts of us, others and our world. Shalom.

Fruit of the Spirit:: Joy

Kurt Kroon explores the difference between joy & happiness and what can take you through the hardest moments in life. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Love

Kurt Kroon shares about how love in the ways that Paul builds up his definition of love throughout his writings and how it starts with understanding God as the definition of love. 

Fruit of the Spirit:: Intro

Kurt Kroon shares about sassy Paul, reading other people's mail and the ways the Fruits of the Spirit invites a better way of practicing Christianity than "right" belief. 

Easter Sunday

Kurt Kroon talks about candy conventions, unrecognizable walks with Jesus and how we can be people beyond ideological labels and instead be people producing good fruit. 

Dreams that are Dying:: Life without Grief

Scott Erickson shares about the 23rd Psalm, life in the shadow of death and meals with "enemies". 

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.