Bethany Lutheran Church
Bethany Lutheran church is located in Austin, TX. We are a church dedicated to Christ and creating a community for people to belong. Bethany is a place to belong, explore, and enjoy the presence and grace of Christ.
Episodes
610 episodes
Shadow & Light | Into the Light and Away from the Shadows
Faith, in a world full of shadows, is a practice of letting go and choosing to believe. Faith reminds us that we need a Savior and that because of him we’re worthy of being saved. Advent is an act of faith. Trusting that Jesus comes and he deli...
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Advent (Noon Service) | Hope in the Shadows
Advent is brief. Christmas goes by even faster. There is a saying “the days are long but the years are short”. Sometimes in the middle of all the things life throws our way we lose sight of how quickly things come and how quickly God moves. Oh ...
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Shadow & Light | Expectation in the Shadows
The world is not as it should be. Not yet. We wait in the shadows for God’s full redemption and perfect light that we are promised. As we wait expectantly for Christmas we also wait for an even greater hope for the earth. Preparing for Christma...
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Every Moment Holy | Christ is King
Everything is Holy because Christ is king. He is in everything and he is over everything. He is incarnate and present in all and through all. Jeremiah 23:1-6 (ESV)“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep o...
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Every Moment Holy | Giving & Generosity
2 Corinthians 9:5-8 (ESV)So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.The point is th...
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Every Moment Holy | Doubt, Fear, and Uncertainty
Sacred opportunities orchestrated by God for us to be faithful. In Christ, every moment is holy.The life of a disciple is fundamentally hearing the call of Christ and following Him.. Christ is everything and in everything. Together we le...
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Everyy Moment Holy | Sorrow & Loss
2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Matthew 5:1-4This Sunday, we celebrate All Saints' Day and wrestle with how to grieve and yet remain hopeful in the resurrection to come. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4Blessed be the God and Fathe...
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Every Moment Holy | Sins and Forgiveness
Reformation is a celebration of what Christ accomplished for us but it is also an invitation to be faithful and live fully the life that Christ gives. Shame and guilt leads us into holy spaces and places with Christ. John 8:3...
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Every Moment Holy | Competition
Competition is meant to be fun. It can be motivating and encouraging. The ways we compete in sports, academics, music etc. is holy. It speaks to the parts of our soul that desire maybe a bit of what has been lost to sin. We love to see people m...
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Every Moment Holy | In God's Creation
Job 12:7-10 and John 1:1-3Some of the most holy moments are in a sunrise or in the night sky. Sometimes we are so detached from the natural world that we miss God shouting at us all through the gift of this earth and all the creat...
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Every Moment Holy | Vacation & Sabbath
Every Moment Holy- Vacation & Sabbath- 11:00 AMThere is built into the world a natural rhythm that has seasons of activity and growth and seasons of rest. It is all too easy to ignore how important time off and sabbath is for ...
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Every Moment Holy | Parenting
Parenting can feel like death by a thousand papercuts. Just when you think you have it figured out there is a curve ball thrown your way. Children go against their parents, parents do not do right by their children. In the middle of the chaos s...
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Every Moment Holy | Work
Where we work we are called to do it to the glory of God. To let our light shine, serve those we are called to serve, and do the very best that we can. Being holy isn’t about working in a church God uses you where you are.Philippians...
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Every Moment Holy | Students and Scholars
We all continue to learn from Christ but sometimes we make the mistake and limit what Christ is teaching us to things in Sunday school, a sermon. It is greater than just what happens in church. All knowledge is God’s knowledge. Being a student ...
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Every Moment Holy | Domestic Days
Sometimes we forget that the service shown to others in keeping house…being domestic in Christ can be holy and honoring. A home is an extension of the body of Christ and the hospitality we are to show. Cleaning feet was a service and about keep...
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Blessings and Curses | The Final Blessing
God’s blessing had been given to people who time and time again chose to reject it. Later in the story, after Israel had been exiled from the promised land, God sent the true Israelite, the only one who could faithfully walk in God’s blessing a...
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Blessings and Curses | Choose Life of Death
After the first humans’ rebellion, God chose a new couple to bless so that God’s blessing may extend to all nations through them. Later, God’s people are offered a choice to choose life or death, to receive God’s blessing or to reject it. Join ...
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Blessings and Curses | Being Human is Hard
The human story begins with God blessing the first two humans, but something goes tragically wrong shortly after the initial blessing. The first two humans reject God’s blessing for something they think will be better, but instead of greater bl...
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Blessings and Curses | Blessed to be a Blessing
The first time the word bless/blessed appears in the Bible is at the start of Genesis. This one tiny word has amazing and beautiful ramifications on what it means to be human and shows us how God continues to invite us to part...
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Prayers of Trust
Where does your help come from? Your bank account? Capitol Hill? Your career? Psalm 121 lifts our eyes from these things that are sure to fail us and fixes our gaze on Yahweh, who is the maker of heaven and earth. Join us as we wrap up ou...
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Prayers of Wisdom
God’s way often seems foolish to the world, and to surrender our will to God’s will often seems very foolish to those around us who don’t know God. The Psalms give us language to come to grips with what true wisdom is, even when it feels like f...
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Prayers to the King
Psalms scholar Dr. Saleska writes, “Psalm 2 puts us in the middle of a power dispute. Who has power and who does not? What does power look like? Who gets to exercise it? Whose side are you on?” Sound familiar?! As followers of Jesus, thes...
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Prayers of Anger
Jesus got angry. So, is such a thing as righteous anger? What do we do when we become angry? How do we express that anger? How do we process that anger? The Psalms give us words to help us process this universal emotion. Psalm 137 (E...
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Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving
It is easy to look around and let our hearts grow cold and numb because of the brokenness all around us. The Psalms give us language to express the lament we experience. But the Psalms also teach us how to pray prayers of thanksgiving as a form...
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Prayers of Lament
What do you do when you feel as though God has deserted you? Jesus experienced this and he used the words of Psalm 22 to give voice to what he was experiencing as he was dying on the cross. Join us as we explore how to pray when we are overcome...
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Praying the Psalms | Introduction
Jesus’ disciples asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray!” Jesus gave them what we now call the Lord’s Prayer. However, as a Jewish man Jesus’ prayer life would have been formed by the prayers in The Book of Psalms. Join us Pastor Jake introduces ...
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Meeting Jesus | Seeing and Believing
As we wrap up our series of Meeting Jesus in John’s Gospel, we will see how Jesus meets us in our fears, doubts, and confusion but he doesn’t leave us there. Jesus invites us to follow him as he breathes his peace upon us, even when things don’...
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Meeting Jesus | The Disciples at the Last Supper
“What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Following Jesus is often unclear and scary. As Jesus was preparing to leave his disciples they had lots of questions about what was next. Jesus didn’t give them a s...
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