Bethel Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN

Sunday, February 26, 2012

God became flesh to save us.  It's the basic tenet of Christianity.  What about those God came to save?  What's our role? Jesus tells us that as he was sent, so we are sent.  Listen to Bethel's Director of Christian Outreach Jordan Ray talk about how we are to live inca...

Sunday, February 12, 2012

In America we don't know much about living in a kingdom.  We don't!  So we have to think cross-culturally to fully realize what Jesus talks about when he speaks of the Kingdom of God.  Where is the kingdom?  Is it here?  Is it coming?  Both?...

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Readings: Job 1:1-12, Revelation 9:1-6, Luke 10:17-24

So God was hanging around in heaven when Satan walks up and God issues him a challenge about this Job guy who is righteous and devout...  Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn't it?  Actually, it's the beginning of o...

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Readings: 1 Samuel 17:31-37, 1 Corinthians 9:19-25, Luke 9:18-24

Little David never saw it coming.  His experience fending off predators while tending his sheep was only that until the Philistene giant, Goliath came around.  Suddenly, the training God had been putting him thr...

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Readings: 1 Samuel 12:19-25, 1 Peter 1:13-21, Mark 7:1-8

After a long sucession of making poor decisions, the people of Israel decide that all their problems are going to be solved by having a King.  Samuel thinks otherwise, and has God on his side.  It's all going to amo...

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Readings: 1 Samuel 3:1-21, 1 Peter 2:4-10, Matthew 4:18-25

What does it sound like when God calls?  For Samuel, it was a call in the night.  For the disciples, it was a call from the shore.  We use different ringtones on our cell phones to tell us who is calling, but wh...

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Readings: Judges 10:11-16, Titus 2:11-14, Luke 15:11-32

Have you ever been in a desperate situation and without really thinking called out to God to rescue you?  Even God's people were surprised to be hearing such pleas coming from their mouths at times!  God is faithful a...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Readings: Joshua 24:14-18, Colossians 3:1-10, Luke 16:1-13

Joshua was willing to stand alone.  God had already shown Himself to be faithful to His people  victory after victory as they took the Promised Land.   But Joshua understands how easy it is to go along with the...

Sanctity of Life Sunday, January 10, 2010

Readings: Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Romans 10:5-17, John 10:7-16

Choices are everywhere.  We feel rather empowered by the myriad of choices that surround us.  God had his chosen people prepared to enter the land he chose for them when he gave them a choice be...

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-22, Acts 3:12-26, Luke 9:28-36

Who do you listen to?  What influences your life and your decisions?  Are they truthful or wholesome?  Many of us don't even realize the number of people trying to get us to listen to them for this reason or that.�...