Tag: bible
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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…
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Pastor Explains – Gospel in Scripture
Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John – That’s all you Need Right? Luther on Reading Gospel Need some help reading the Bible? Me too, no need to be ashamed. I grew up in church. I grew up with the Bible sitting on my dresser. But I freely admit to you that I didn’t know what to…
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Baptismal Promises – The Ones We Make
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. ~Ephesians 4:4-6 This Sunday is the day my daughter Hadley will be baptized! I…
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The Church Begins: Post-Resurrection World
“And Saul approved of their killing him.” (In regards to the murder of Stephen) ~Acts 8:1 This most recent Sunday we looked at the last part of Acts chapter 7 and all of chapter 8. As I write this, I don’t know what conversations we had yet. I reread these texts for Sunday, and Saul’s…
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Are you listening? – Hearing God’s Voice
We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life ~ 1 John 1:1 I have never heard the voice of God. Well, at least not in the biblical sense.…
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Daniel, Lectionary, and Hope
In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream ~ Daniel 7:1 Each week, Bethany, like many churches, uses the Revised Common Lectionary in order to choose the readings for Sunday Worship. This calendar of…