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Seven Days of Prayer – Day 4
Prayer Focus: Help me to dream and see the possibilities and the future where You are leading. Scripture: Mark 9:14-29 Reflection: If any and all barriers were removed, are there specific steps I can take towards God’s priorities in my life, at Bethel, and in our community? Are there things I believe God is calling…
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Seven Days of Prayer – Day 3
Prayer Focus: Show me those things that close my heart and mind to You and Your people. Scripture: John 9:1-12 Reflection: What about me, Bethel, and our community prevents God’s priorities? Prayer: Merciful God, as difficult as it is for me, show me the truth about myself so that I can grow and become more…
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Community: Our Need to Connect with One Another
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 Humans…
Tags: Relationship
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They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. ~ Acts 2:42 Now that Easter 2018 is in the books, what do we actually do with Easter? I remember my first concert (Rick Springfield), going to see Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith in concert, when my…
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How long, O Lord?!
Today, we experienced yet another school shooting – this time, in Santa Fe, TX. Honestly … what to say that hasn’t already been said? Today, we’ve added 9 students and 1 teacher to the growing numbers of those killed in school shootings. My heart hurts for the children who saw classmates shot and killed in…
Categories: Pastoral Response
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We Are One Body in Christ Jesus
For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. ~ Romans 12:4-5 You’ve certainly heard the joke: “How many Lutherans does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Because…
Tags: Body of Christ
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What’s a Christian to do?
What is a Christian to do in response to the terrible news of yet another mass shooting event, specifically a school shooting?
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He Comes to Us: The Miracle of the Incarnation
5Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. ~ Philippians 2:5-7 I arrived at Bethel for my first official…
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Living Thanks
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. ~ Philippians 4:4 We’re fresh off the heels of our celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Just like any major event, the event itself changes us. The Reformation, even though it was 500 years ago, has changed the Church (notice the capital “C”…
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Giving Thanks as Children of God
3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.…
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