Bethany Lutheran Church

Month: October 2017

  • Faith, Fellowship, Family

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    Pastor Susan

    They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ~Acts 2:42 For the last few Sundays we have been going through our newest member class in our adult education. These classes […]

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  • Reform and Reforming

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    Pastor Susan

    “Source of all life, we confess that we have  not allowed your grace to set us free. We fear that we are not good enough. We hear  your word of love freely given to us, yet we expect others to earn it. […]

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  • #metoo – Lifting voices

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    Pastor Susan

    “Me too.” ~Hagar (Gen 21), Bilhah (Gen 30), Dinah (Gen 34), Tamar (Gen 38), Bathsheba (2 Sm 11), Tamar II (2 Sm 13), Unnamed Woman (Jgs 19-21), and countless more On October 15th, a saddening trend began on Twitter and Facebook. I […]

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  • Small Town Life – Living it Up

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    Pastor Susan

    I’ve been the pastor at Bethany for a little more than a year now. And after a year working in this community, I still wouldn’t have thought of Longview-Kelso as being small towns. It’s smaller than Seattle or Portland sure. But after […]

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  • Group Work as “Grown Ups”

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    Pastor Susan

    Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. ~ Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 I am notoriously terrible at doing group work. I’ve been enjoying all of the “first […]

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