by Pastor Tom | Feb 12, 2024 | Community
Grace and Peace, Bethesda! Let’s get out the telescope and gain our bearings here. We’ve sailed through a beautiful Christmas season. We’ve traversed a week of icebergs. Our next destination is the Annual Meeting, now on February 25th. Between now and then I will make...
by Pastor Tom | Nov 6, 2023 | Community
Grace and Peace, House of Mercy! In last month’s article, I shared our Council’s hope about October Crew Meetings. That we would be amazed at how the Holy Spirit among us “promotes the body of Christ’s growth in building itself up in love” (Ephesians 4:16). Mission...
by Pastor Tom | Oct 12, 2023 | Community
Grace and Peace, House of Mercy! By the time you see this, our Church Planning Council will have concluded a seven-hour visioning retreat. Our intention was to step back from the ground-level concerns of church operations and take in a wider perspective. To gain...
by Pastor Tom | Sep 28, 2023 | Community
Grace and Peace, Bethesda! I pray you’ve had a safe and renewing summer! It’s about time for the fall of the Pac-12 conference…I mean, the fall season at Bethesda. Doesn’t it feel like everything is in transition these days?! Amen for the unchanging mercy of God!...
by Administrator | Sep 19, 2022 | Community
Dear Congregation, I am flattered to be able to take the position of choir director. So, I would like to say a few words of gratitude and commitment. First, I want to say how much I have felt welcomed by everyone here and how much I hope to be contributing to the...
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...
