Sermons
Sermon – The Audacious Hope of God~ Pastor Sarah
March 22, 2020 This is a really hard and anxious time. This global pandemic is forcing fundamental changes in lifestyle, in human behavior, in the way we do business and school and even church. And it just keeps playing out in real time so quickly that it’s hard to...
Sermon – We Are One Body~ Pastor Sarah
March 15, 2020 Well, there’s nothing like a novel and spreading virus to really drive home the point that we’re all connected to each other. Over the past couple of months, as we’ve watched the various maps and charts that are trying to capture the spread of the...
Sermon – Deliverance in the Wilderness~ Pastor Sarah
March 8, 2020 Pastor Sarah Rohde Hagar, Jesus, and Rachel take us to the wilderness today, a place I trust we have all spent some time at one point or another in our lives. I’m not sure how many of us heard the story of Hagar growing up, but her story of escape, and...
Sermon – What Do People Mean When They Say The Bible Is Inspired ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
March 1, 2020 If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is...
Sermon – Ash Wednesday 2020~ Pastor Sarah
February 26, 2020 It might sound kind of strange to you, but as I think about all the days we celebrate or recognize as a church throughout the liturgical year, I think I would say that Ash Wednesday rises to the top as one of my favorites. It might sound odd to opt...
Sermon – Up On the Mountain, Down in the Valley – Bishop Yehiel Curry
February 24, 2020 A couple weeks ago I was part of a bishop delegation who traveled to the Lutheran church in Jordan and the Holy Land. We were there for six days, and we did a lot of work. We took in some of the holy sites, but we were there to put our eyes on the...
Sermon – Jesus’ Building of the Beloved Community~ Pastor Sarah
February 16, 2020 Jesus addresses in this passage some of the most complex and painful parts of being human. Here Jesus talks about relationships, and particularly relationships that have not yet been reconciled, so he’s talking about the words that still sting. The...
Sermon – February 9 ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
February 9, 2020 We are back up on the mountain with Jesus this week. Up on that mountain, where Jesus begins to reveal to the disciples their new identities--telling them who they are. Last week, we heard the beginning of Jesus’ sermon, known to many as “The...
Sermon – Good Adventure! ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
February 2, 2020 As we have discovered over the last two weeks, after John baptizes Jesus, Jesus begins to choose his disciples. He summons Peter and Andrew, James and John. And as we learn, they promptly obey Jesus’ summons –they leave their nets, their boats, even...
Sermon – Disciples Follow Jesus~ Pastor Sarah
January 26, 2020 There’s no denying that “firsts” are significant. The first step a child takes. The first kiss that a couple shares. The first car that you drive. All these “firsts” matter. They mark us. They’re these defined moments that are etched in our minds...
Sermon – Divine Presence ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
January 19, 2020 There is a subtle pattern that runs through this passage in 1 Chapter of John. It gives us three seemingly simple actions that point people to Jesus. First, John the Baptist notices Jesus. Second, he shares his experience with his own followers. Then,...
Sermon – How About a Baptism Based Church?~ Pastor Sarah
January 12, 2020 Today we read of Jesus’ first day on the job. And while we might imagine Jesus getting right to work on teaching and preaching, he instead begins by wading into the waters of the river Jordan, lining up with all the others that were standing along the...
Sermon – Epiphany~ Pastor Sarah
January 5, 2020 Today, on this Epiphany Sunday, we read of the epiphany given to the wise men long ago, and we’re invited to contemplate right along with it the epiphanies of our own lives. Epiphany comes almost straight from the Greek – epi means “on” or “upon” and...
Christmas Worship Service 2019
December 24, 2019 Enjoy this recording of the entire Bethlehem Lutheran Church Christmas Worship service from 8:00 p.m. Read the sermon here.
Sermon – Advent 2- Bishop Gary Wollersheim
December 8, 2019 Bishop Gary Wollersheim shares the weekly sermon. You can read the full sermon coming soon.
Sermon – Advent 1 ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
December 1, 2019 Sermon by Deacon Heather Feltman. Read the sermon coming soon.
Sermon –Thanksgiving 2019
November 27, 2019 Thanksgiving message by David Lippold. You can read the full sermon here.
Sermon – Disciples Know Salvation is with God – Bishop Gary Wollersheim
November 24, 2019 Most everybody gathered here has a calendar of some kind. Now, a lot of you don't use a calendar like I do. You use your phone. But my fingers are too fat for the phone, so I never get anything in there right. Now, on your calendars and my...
Sermon – Disciples Take Their Faith Public ~ Deacon Heather Feltman
November 17, 2019 The journey has been long. Forcibly removed from their homeland of Jerusalem, driven to live in exile in Babylon for nearly seventy years, the people of Judah are now, at long last, beginning their return home. They have such hope. However, upon...
Sermon – Disciples Live by Faith~ Pastor Sarah
November 10, 2019 The tension is mounting in today’s gospel story. By this part of Luke’s gospel, Jesus has arrived in Jerusalem and it’s not pretty. You’ll remember that, as he approached the city a couple days before, he paused and wept over the peoples’ failure to...
