Category: Pastor’s Blog
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Thanks for Reading!
Thanks for reading! Personally I have always loved writing, but often struggle to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards). I have been grateful for this year of writing each week. And I have been even more grateful that you have been reading it! This blog was recently listed under the top 100 Lutheran…
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Advent Joy – Advent 3
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy. Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” ~Psalm 126:2 I love Advent. Like I really love Advent, it’s one of my favorite seasons in the church. And this coming Sunday is the third Sunday in Advent, the Sunday…
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Advent Peace – Advent 2
the voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” ~Mark 1:3 Oh what, John the Baptist crying out in the wilderness to prepare the way for the Lord doesn’t cry out “peace” to you? Okay, me neither. But this next Sunday is our second Sunday…
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Remembering & Making time – All Saints Sunday
Brothers, we ant you to know bout those who have died. We do not want you to be sad as others who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and that he rose again. So, because of Jesus, God will bring together with Jesus those who have died. ~1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 International Children’s Bible…
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Faith, Fellowship, Family
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 aren’t just for people interested in new membership at Bethany. But my hope…
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Reform and Reforming
“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. God we turn the church inward, rather than moving it outward. Forgive us.…
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#metoo – Lifting voices
“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 started seeing posts from friends and acquaintances saying, “Me too. If all the…