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Devotion: Advent – New Beginnings
Over the last year-and-a-half, Bethel’s Long Range Planning Task Force spent a lot of time reading, praying, thinking, talking, listening, and organizing. This may sound odd, but much of their time was actually spent dwelling on two questions: “Who are we?” and “Who has God called us to be?” I say it might sound odd… Continue reading
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Devotions: Facing the Giants
Bethel will press pause on The Story through the Advent and Christmas seasons as we prepare for the coming of a king. This is the one for whom John the Baptist prepares the way declaring that he is “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight’”… Continue reading
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#GivingTuesday
We are already getting in to the “giving season” – Christmas music is play, Christmas-themed commercials are on TV and the radio. In the Christian community, we give at Christmas out of gratitude for the gift of God’s son, Jesus. We give to show our love and appreciation for people who touch our lives: family,… Continue reading
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Devotion: Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening
My mom served as an elementary school teacher for about 31 years. Toward the end of her career, she grew more frustrated at some of the teaching techniques that were being championed as “new” and “more effective” when, in actuality, they were cleaned up versions of techniques used a dozen or more years earlier. Like… Continue reading
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Devotion: The Softer Side of the Old Testament
After some pretty rough weeks in The Story as we read about battles and God seemingly being pretty hard-nosed about the rules (for example, Moses didn’t get to cross over into the Promised Land because he struck a rock to bring about water rather than just speaking to it), we some real gems through the… Continue reading
Epicurious Lutheran 