by Bethesda Lutheran Church | Jan 18, 2022 | Reflections
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. —1 Corinthians 12:12 I wonder how Paul might adjust this imagery in today’s world. Many of the members of Bethesda have replaced knees...
by Bethesda Lutheran Church | Jan 10, 2022 | Book Reviews, Community
“…when God’s Son took on flesh, he truly and bodily took on, out of pure grace, our being, our nature, ourselves. This was the eternal counsel of the triune God. Now we are in him. Where he is, there we are too, in the incarnation, on the Cross, and in his...
by Bethesda Lutheran Church | Jan 3, 2022 | Reflections
Since the start of my ministry, I have collected pictures with the people I have baptized. I was inspired by a doctor who had a wall full of pictures of children he had delivered over the years. I made the mistake of not writing the names of the children on the back...
by Bethesda Lutheran Church | Jan 1, 2022 | Christmas, Reflections
From Bethesda’s Administrative Coordinator, Amy Weinkauf This year, as my family sat around the table for our traditional Christmas Eve meal, we commented how much we had enjoyed the Advent season. When was the last time we felt that way? We paused for a moment trying...
by Bethesda Lutheran Church | Dec 1, 2021 | Community
“The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer Life Together I’ve been...
