Worship for March 28, 2021: Palm Sunday
Place Finders: Readings 9:56 Sermon 19:33 Prayers 34:10
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Worship for March 21, 2021: Forgive Us as We Forgive
Place Finders: Readings 10:22 Sermon 15:03 Prayers 34:05
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Worship for March 14, 2021: An Antidote to Anxiety
Place Finders: Readings 10:31 Sermon 17:04 Prayers 38:58
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Worship for March 7, 2021: Thy Kingdom Come…
Place Finders: Readings 9:19 Sermon 16:11 Prayers 34:12
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Worship for February 28, 2021: What Your Faith Is…and What It Is Not
Place Finders: Opening Prayer 9:08 Readings 9:35 Teaching 12:36 Sermon 22:05 Closing Prayer 33:09
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Worship for February 21, 2021: Three Practices to Renew your Life with Church
Place Finders: Readings 14:03 Sermon 19:36 Prayers 34:04
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Worship for February 17, 2020: Tricking your Brain, Plucking Eyebrows, and Trusting the World Again
Place Finders: Readings 6:53 Sermon 18:28 Invitation to Lent 33:48 Prayers 40:41
Sermon Notes: Brene Brown’s interview with Tim Ferris and Dax Shepherd is a treasure trove for preaching. Check it out here for more on why you shouldn’t trust everything you think.
And for more on eyebrows in America during a pandemic, check this out on the Washington Post.
Worship for February 14, 2021: Your Valentine and other short thoughts on love
Place Finders: Readings 9:20 Sermon 15:12 Prayers 29:07
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Worship for February 7, 2021
Greetings, Bethel friends: Every six weeks or so, the worship team takes a Sunday off. So that means, you all are stuck with your dear pastor for Zoom church. Join us live online at 10:30am. Click this link when it’s time: SUNDAY CHURCH ONLINE.
I have prepared some short studies on our readings which include sharing three short films from The Work of the People. Always inspiring. Jim will have his guitar, communion will be ready. So bring your bread and wine and open hearts and we’ll be waiting. In peace, Pr. Amy
Worship for January 31, 2020: The Outsiders
Place Finders
Readings 12:06 Sermon 18:45 Prayers 42:06
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Worship for January 24, 2020: Leaving. And returning.
Place Finders
Readings 12:21
Sermon 15:46
Prayers 28:16
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Worship for January 17, 2020: When the Cost of Winning is too High
Sermon Notes
For best practices, the marriage and family therapists who guide from an IMAGO approach recommend this book: Getting the Love you Want by Harville Hendrix.
Peace is not the absence of conflict is a quote by President Ronald Regan. But I’m pretty sure he must have gotten his idea from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Bible before him.
The words about the cost of winning first came from Andrea Kamm, MFT, but then I heard them again in this podcast with Brene Brown, Tim Ferriss, and Dax Shepherd. Ferriss is pretty invested in the IMAGO model of dialogue to solve conflict. HERE is the episode. The whole episode is pretty amazing.
I first heard that explanation of Jacob’s Ladder from one of my favorite Jewish preachers, Rabbi David Wolpe. But I don’t have a clue which sermon it was. Sorry, Rabbi!
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Worship for January 10, 2020: The Family Treasure with Guest Preacher -- Rev. Russ Gordon
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Worship for January 3, 2020: Guest Preacher -- Rev. Russ Gordon
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Christmas Eve Worship 2020
Two services to choose from plus some bonus caroling from our singers from years past and present. Traditional worship or a rerun of our popular Children’s Play adapted for tonight. Merry Christmas!
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Worship for December 13, 2020 -- Making the Path Straight in this Oh So Crooked World
It is not the work of people who have been wronged to learn to communicate in order to be heard; it is the work of those who have power to learn to listen.
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Readings 15:20
Sermon 23:07
Prayers 42:03
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Worship for December 6, 2020-- In the moment you choose not to react
SERMON WARNING: You might think after the first couple sentences the message is about politics. It is not. It’s about character. It’s about our kids. It’s not about anyone but who we are. I mention a Gavin Newsom bumper-sticker. But he’s a side note to the point of it all. Bethel is not partisan, nor does it endorse politicians. Politics is intruding on our wellbeing. Every so often, we do talk about how we are handling it all. Again, it’s about character and anything in our lives that calls upon us to live differently and more responsibly.
“I’m lifting up the vital and urgent question we all need to be asking of ourselves many times throughout the day: what kind of person do I want to be as I wait for God? What am I putting into the world as I wait for God? Is this God’s dream?”
Place Finders
Readings 13:06
Sermon 19:19
Prayers 33:03
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Worship for November 29, 2020-- When the Signs Don't Look so Good
“We often think of doubt as doubt that God exists. But actually, there are all kinds of ways to doubt in God: doubt in God’s goodness, doubt in God’s presence in our midst, doubt in human community and its capacity to be redeemed, doubt in the ultimate justice of our cosmos…. This is a season where we can name these…”
Place Finders
Readings 16:06
Sermon 23:58
Prayers 33:44
Worship for November 22, 2020-- Annual Thanksgiving Celebration Worship
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Readings 10:39
Reflections 17:32
Prayers 40:30
Worship for November 15, 2020-- The Day After Part II
“… Christ the King is a massive corrective on the focus of our emotional, relational, and everyday attention. Of course government policies impact our lives, some of us in more dire ways than others. But we can’t lose sight of who our king is or we will be constantly disappointed and overinvested in winning. For the Christian, any investment in winning is too much.”
Sermon Notes
Read David Von Drehle’s article of the American psyche HERE. I’m not as anti-federal government as he is, but his point is well taken nonetheless.
Watch the gorgeous videos of our sermon song Be Thou My Vision and We Bow Before the One. Thank you The Work of the People!!
Place Finders
Readings 13:45
Sermon 21:19
Prayers 35:49
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