The Lutheran Sermon Podcast From Bethany

December 11, 2022 --  "Forgiving" -- Pastor Mark Siegert,  Bible Text:  1 John 3:11-18 Stay tuned after the sermon for a special Holiday treat as The Bethany Choir sings "Still, Still, Still" (*Public Domain) from the Bethany Christmas Concert, December 4, 2022. 11 The message that you have heard from the beginning is to love each other. 12 Don’t be like Cain. He was a child of the...

December 4, 2022 -- "Forgiven" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: 1 John 2:1-2, 12: (2) My dear children, I’m writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet, if anyone does sin, we have Jesus Christ, who has God’s full approval. He speaks on our behalf when we come into the presence of the Father. 2 He is the payment for our sins, and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of the whole...

November 27, 2022 -- "Our God is For Giving" -- Pastor Kyle Blake, Bible Text: 1 John 1:1-6: 1 The Word of life existed from the beginning. We have heard it. We have seen it. We observed and touched it. 2 This life was revealed to us. We have seen it, and we testify about it. We are reporting to you about this eternal life that was in the presence of the Father and was revealed to us. 3 This is th...

November 20,2022 --  "Subjects vs. Subjected" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: Revelation 1:5-8; Luke 23: 26-43 Rev. 1:  5 and from Jesus Christ, the witness, the trustworthy one, the first to come back to life, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. Glory and power forever and ever [a] belong to the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood 6 and has made us a...

November 13, 2022 -- "Why Not" -- Pastor Kyle Blake, Bible Text: 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 6 Brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we order you not to associate with any believer who doesn’t live a disciplined life and doesn’t follow the tradition you received from us. 7 You know what you must do to imitate us. We lived a disciplined life among you. 8 We didn’t eat anyone’s food...

November 6, 2022 -- "Before & After" -- Pastor Mark Siegert, Bible Text Matthew 5 and Revelation 7: Matt. 5 -- When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up a mountain and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he began to teach them: 3 “Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless. The kingdom of heaven belongs to them. 4 Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted. &nbsp...

October 30, 2022 -- "Free, To A Good Home" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: John 8:31-36 31 So Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you live by what I say, you are truly my disciples. 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  33 They replied to Jesus, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and we’ve never been anyone’s slaves. So how can you say that we will be s...

October 23, 2022 -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text 2 Tim. 4:16-18 16 At my first hearing no one stood up in my defense. Everyone abandoned me. I pray that it won’t be held against them. 17 However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that I could finish spreading the Good News for all the nations to hear. I was snatched out of a lion’s mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from all harm and...

October 16, 2022 -- "Sent" -- Pastor Kyle Blake, Bible Text:  II Timothy 3:14 – 4:5 14 However, continue in what you have learned and found to be true. You know who your teachers were. 15 From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures. They have the power to give you wisdom so that you can be saved through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every Scripture passage is inspired by God. All of them are...

October 9, 2022 -- "Connected" -- Pastor Kyle Blake, Bible Text: 2 Timothy 2:1-13 1 My child, find your source of strength in the kindness [a] of Christ Jesus. 2 You’ve heard my message, and it’s been confirmed by many witnesses. Entrust this message to faithful individuals who will be competent to teach others. 3 Join me in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 Whoever serves in the mi...

October 2, 2022 -- "Gathered" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text:  Matthew 23:37 37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone to death those sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings! But you were not willing!" (GW) http://www.bethanylutheran.org http://www.facebook.com/Bethany. Long. Beach www.youtube.com/c...

September 25, 2022 -- We *ARE* His Body -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: 1 Timothy 6:11b-18: 11b Pursue what God approves of: a godly life, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight for the Christian faith. Take hold of everlasting life to which you were called and about which you made a good testimony in front of many witnesses. 13 In the sight of God, who gives life to...

September 18, 2022 -- "This *IS* His Body" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-6 1 First of all, I encourage you to make petitions, prayers, intercessions, and prayers of thanks for all people, 2 for rulers, and for everyone who has authority over us. Pray for these people so that we can have a quiet and peaceful life always lived in a godly and reverent way. 3 This is good and plea...

September 11, 2022 -- "Jesus Is For Everybody" -- Rev. Mark Siegert, Bible Text: 1 Timothy 1:12-17 12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord that he has trusted me and has appointed me to do his work with the strength he has given me. 13 In the past I cursed him, persecuted him, and acted arrogantly toward him. However, I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief. 14 Our Lord was ver...

September 4, 2022 -- "The Lost Art of Prayer" -- Pastor Nader Hanna, Bible Text: Luke 14:25-35 25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus. He turned to them and said, 26 “If people come to me and are not ready to abandon their fathers, mothers, wives, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as their own lives, they cannot be my disciples. 27 So those who do not carry their crosses and follow me ca...

August 28, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed: Contentment In Christ" -- Rev. Dr. Stephen P. Mueller (Vice President & Chief Mission Officer, Concordia University, Irvine CA)  Bible Text:  Hebrews 13:1-17 (13) Continue to love each other. 2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to believers you don’t know. By doing this some believers have shown hospitality to angels without being aware of it....

August 21, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed--Everything" -- Pastor Nader Hanna, Bible Text Hebrews 13:20-21 20 The God of peace brought the great shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, back to life through the blood of an eternal promise. 21 May this God of peace prepare you to do every good thing he wants. May he work in us through Jesus Christ to do what is pleasing to him. Glory belongs to Jesus Ch...

August 14, 2022 -- Just What We Needed: An Unshakable Kingdom -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text Hebrews 12:4-29 4 You struggle against sin, but your struggles haven’t killed you. 5 You have forgotten the encouraging words that God speaks to you as his children: “My child, pay attention when the Lord disciplines you. Don’t give up when he corrects you. 6 The Lord disciplines everyone he loves. He...

July 31, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed: Faith" -- Rev. Mark Siegert, Bible Text Hebrews 11:1-16 11 Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see. 2 God accepted our ancestors because of their faith. 3 Faith convinces us that God created the world through his word. This means what can be seen was made by something that could not be seen. 4 Faith led A...

July 24, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed: Encouragement" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text Hebrews 10:19-25 17 Then he adds, “I will no longer hold their sins and their disobedience against them.” 18 When sins are forgiven, there is no longer any need to sacrifice for sins. 19 Brothers and sisters, because of the blood of Jesus we can now confidently go into the holy place. 20 Jesus has opened a ne...

July 17, 2022 -- "Just What We needed: Certainty in an Uncertain World" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: Hebrews 9:24-28 24 Christ didn’t go into a holy place made by human hands. He didn’t go into a model of the real thing. Instead, he went into heaven to appear in God’s presence on our behalf. 25 Every year the chief priest went into the holy place to make a sacrifice with blood that isn’t h...

July 10, 2022 -- "We Need His Sacrifice" -- Rev Mark Siegert, Bible Text: Hebrews 7:11-16, 25-27 11 The people established the Levitical priesthood based on instructions they received. If the work of the Levitical priests had been perfect, we wouldn’t need to speak about another kind of priest. However, we speak about another kind of priest, a priest like Melchizedek, not a Levitical priest like A...

July 3, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed" -- Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: Hebrews 4:12-16 12 God’s word is living and active. It is sharper than any two-edged sword and cuts as deep as the place where soul and spirit meet, the place where joints and marrow meet. God’s word judges a person’s thoughts and intentions.  13 No creature can hide from God. Everything is uncovered and exposed for hi...

June 26, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed" Pastor Kevin Kritzer, Bible Text: Hebrews 3:1-6 Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling. So look carefully at Jesus, the apostle and chief priest about whom we make our declaration of faith. 2 Jesus is faithful to God, who appointed him, in the same way that Moses was faithful when he served in God’s house. 3 Jesus deserves more prai...

June 19, 2022 -- "Just What We Needed" -- Rev. Kyle Blake, Sermon Text: Hebrews 1:1-4 1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors at many different times and in many different ways through the prophets. 2 In these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. God made his Son responsible for everything. His Son is the one through whom God made the universe. 3 His Son is the reflection of God’s glory...