The Lutheran Sermon Podcast From Bethany

July 5, 2020 Karl Fink shares a message from Romans 7: 14-25.  Check out http://www.bethanylutheran.org/worship-service-resources/ for a video archive of online worship services from Bethany Lutheran Church in Long Beach California.   14  I know that God’s standards in Moses’ Teachings are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin. 15  I don’t realize what...

June 28, 2020 Pastor Kevin Kritzer leads us through Romans 7:1-13 Romans 7 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) 7  Don’t you realize, brothers and sisters, that laws have power over people only as long as they are alive? (I’m speaking to people who are familiar with Moses’ Teachings.) 2  For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive. But if her husband dies, t...

June 21, 2020 Happy Father's Day!! Pastor Seth walks us through Romans 6:12-23 to witness the greatest before and after story in the world! Romans 6:12-23 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) 12  Therefore, never let sin rule your physical body so that you obey its desires. 13  Never offer any part of your body to sin’s power. No part of your body should ever be used to do any ungodly thing. Inst...

June 14, 2020 Pastor Kritzer shares a message from Romans 5:6-15 6  Look at it this way: At the right time, while we were still helpless, Christ died for ungodly people. 7  Finding someone who would die for a godly person is rare. Maybe someone would have the courage to die for a good person. 8  Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God’s love for us. 9&n...

June 7, 2020 Pastor Kevin Kritzer shares a message of hope in these troubling times from Psalm 46. Psalm 46 English Standard Version (ESV) God Is Our Fortress To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. 46  God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2  Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved int...

May 31, 2020 In a message originally recored in 2015, Pastor Kevin Kritzer shares how God is still at work as His Spirit falls on us, even in confusing times. 

May 24, 2020 Pastor Kyle Blake shares a message on this Ascension Day.   The text is from Acts 1:4-11 4  Once, while he was meeting with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there for what the Father had promised. Jesus said to them, “I’ve told you what the Father promises: 5  John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”...

May 17, 2020 Pastor Seth Moorman shares a message of love from 1 John 4:7-8. Beloved, let us love one another:  for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

May 10, 2020 In these troubled times of pandemic, Pastor Kevin Krtitzer brings a message from John 14 to calm our troubled hearts. 

May 3, 2020 On Good Shepherd Sunday, Pastor Kevin Kritzer shares a message from John 10:1-16 on the Lamb of God who is also our Good Shepherd.  To support this podcast and the ministry of Bethany Lutheran Church in Long Beach, CA you can text the word GIVE to (562)210-0463. You can get more information about Bethany Lutheran Church at http://www.bethanylutheran.org/ Or at our Facebook page- h...

Pastor Seth Moorman shares a message from Luke 15:13-35 about the men on the road to Emmaus and how even when we run, Jesus draws near. 

Pastor Kevin Kritzer brings us the story of Thomas from John 20 and a word of peace for us all in these difficult times. 

In a replay of Easter 2016 Pastor Kevin reminds us that the best place to be is right where you are.