Tag: understanding
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Ask the Pastor – Anonymous Feedback
We need feedback. As we grow as a congregation together, we need to hear from our members, from our friends, and from our community how things are going. As we try new things, we need to learn what works and what doesn’t. It’s hard. Hearing constructive criticism is often difficult, but it’s how we learn…
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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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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…