Grace Upon Grace

Our study in Adult Bible Class during the Easter Season will be focused on spirituality. That’s kind of a popular word nowadays, but it usually has to do with a regimen of works and is often very self-centered. The spirituality we will be talking about is Lutheran Spirituality, that is, a spirituality centered on what God has done for us in Christ and what we have received in Him.

We are going to learn about how Jesus is the beginning and the end of our spirituality. We receive from Him everything we have – and that includes our spiritual life.

Join us for Bible Class on Sunday mornings at Bethany this Easter Season. If you’re interested in this subject, you may want to order the book this study is based on – “Grace Upon Grace” by Dr. John Kleinig.

“For from His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.” – John 1:16

Living Lent

Our Wednesday Evening Lenten Series at Bethany will highlight the ways in which the passion narratives of Christ become more meaningful when we see them through the lens of the resurrection and the empty tomb.

2/10 – Ponder – Luke 4
2/17 – Purpose – Luke 19
2/24 – Pain – Luke 15 & 23
3/2  – Praise – Psalm 34
3/9  – Proclaim – 1 Peter 2
3/16 – People – John 10

Our schedule on Wednesday evenings is as follows ..   5:30 pm Soup Supper, 6pm Hand Chimes, 7pm Lenten Service, 7:45 pm Choir

Lenten Series

On Sunday Mornings during the Lenten Season we will be exploring one of the Bible’s oldest and greatest books – the Book of Job. Here is our Lenten Schedule for Sundays –

2/14 – Flying Blind (Job 1:1-12)
2/21 – Sweet Surrender (Job 1:13-21)
2/28 – Learning to Lament (Job 3:1-26)
3/6  – It is Enough (Job 14:1-14)
3/13 – It All Works Together (Job 23:1-17)
3/20 – God Speaks in the Storm (Job 38:1-11)
3/2  – Holy Thursday – Now My Eyes Have Seen You (Job 42:1-6, 10-11)
3/25 – Good Friday – On Earth Is Not His Equal (Job 41:20-34)
3/27 – Easter Sunday – I Know That My Redeemer Lives! (Job 19:23-26)

 

Epiphany

Join us at Bethany this month for the season of Epiphany, as we celebrate the visit of the Magi, the Baptism of Jesus, the first miracle at Cana turning water into wine, and the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor. Blessed Epiphany!

All Saints Day

Join us at Bethany this Sunday as we celebrate All Saints Day.

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: “Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”  – Revelation 7