Tag: faith
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One Coin Found
When someone you knew in school writes a book, you can’t help but read it. So when my seminary classmate, Emmy Kegler, shared her publication date, “One Coin Found” went right into my Amazon cart. Her memoir/theological resource/bible study traveled with me last April to a conference where I read it during any free moment.…
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Ask the Pastor – Worship Stuff Part 3 – The Creed
Have you ever wondered why we do what we do during worship? What’s up with the passing the peace? Why do we have a community confession? What exactly are we saying when we profess the creed?Maybe you’ve wondered if there’s more to the offering besides collecting gifts for the church. If you’ve been asking, if you’ve…
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Embracing Stewardship Part 1 – The Money Talk
June 2019 Edit: I’m currently working on my post for this week when I realized I had begun this series and never had a part 2. I looked at the date and realized this was posted just a few days before my father’s passing. I do hope to return to this series again soon. This…
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Reading is Fundamental – Literature, Learning, & Faith
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. Daniel 1:17a For the Hebrew hero Daniel and his friends in the book of Daniel, reading, literature, and learning. The writer of the book of Daniel reminds us that it’s God who gives this knowledge, this understanding, this…
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Beloved, Broken, Bearers
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be beloved, broken, bearers of God’s love. This wondering has come up for me because of the conference I attended last week, but also because of our upcoming education series.This coming Sunday we begin our next series in our Sunday morning adult education. For February,…
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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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Group Work as “Grown Ups”
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 day of school” photos in my Facebook feed the last few weeks. I…
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Baptismal Promises – The Ones Made to Us
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 I’m not entirely sure where this year has gone, but it’s nearly…