Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Category: Sunday

  • Third Sunday of Easter

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    Readings: Acts 3:11–21 | 1 John 3:1–7 | Luke 24:36–49 Text: Luke 24:36-49 How can we know if what we hear is true?  In an age of fake news, deep fakes, and just plain bald-faced lies, it’s really a problem.  Because of these things, people’s trust of institutions and media agencies has plummeted.  A Pew…

  • Second Sunday of Easter

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    Readings: Acts 4:32-35 | 1 John 1:1-2:2 | John 20:19-31 Text: 1 John 1:1—2:2 In the Introit at the beginning of service this morning, we heard: “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” (1 Peter…

  • The Resurrection of Our Lord

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    Readings: Isaiah 25:6-9 | 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 | Mark 16:1-8 Text: Mark 16:1-9 In our day, despite ignorance of the Bible and a general apathy toward religion, Christianity is so ingrained into the society, that hardly anyone objects to the celebration of Easter.  So long as by Easter you mean spring, sprinkled with subtle hints…

  • Sunrise of the Resurrection of Our Lord

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    Readings: Exodus 15:1-11 | 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 | John 20:1-18 Text: John 20:1-18 Mary came early to the tomb of Jesus, similar to how we have gathered much earlier than normal for worship this morning.  She was intent to do for her Lord what they had not time for when He died.  She was prepared…

  • Palm Sunday

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    Readings: Zechariah 9:9–12 | Philippians 2:5–11 | Mark 14-15 Text: Mark 14-15 The Passion of our Lord is stark and cruel.  There’s no painting it with a nice gloss to make it more attractive.  It forces us to gaze deeply and uncomfortably at something grotesque: an innocent Man arrested and falsely accused, with no one…

  • Fifth Sunday in Lent

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    Readings: Jeremiah 31:31–34 | Hebrews 5:1–10 | Mark 10:35-45 Text: Mark 10:35-45 In Jeremiah 31, the Lord says in coming days that He will make a new covenant with His people.  He says that in this new covenant, “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I…

  • Fourth Sunday in Lent

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    Readings: Numbers 21:4–9 | Ephesians 2:1–10 | John 3:14–21 Text: John 3:14-21 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16—it’s one of the best loved passages in all of Scripture.  It appears everywhere from signs in the…

  • Third Sunday in Lent

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    Readings: Exodus 20:1–17 | 1 Corinthians 1:18–31 | John 2:13–22 Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 St. Paul writes to the Corinthian Christians, who were a gathering of people from largely Greek backgrounds, yet they were called together to belong to God through Jesus Christ.  But in being called to belong to Him, they often found themselves…

  • Second Sunday in Lent

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    Readings: Genesis 17:1–7, 15–16 | Romans 5:1-11 | Mark  8:27-38 Text: Mark 8:27-33 During this season of Lent, the faithful follow Jesus year after year to the cross.  It’s a devotional practice which spans centuries and connects us with that great cloud of witnesses who “lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,…

  • First Sunday in Lent

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    Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Lebanon, OR Readings: Genesis 22:1-18 | James 1:12-18 | Mark 1:9-15 Text: Genesis 22:1-18 One of the sad realities of life is that people only get woken up to a problem when it affects them personally.  In war, they’re willing to send other sons into war, but hate to send their own. …