Sermon Podcasts

Church isn’t a museum for the perfect. It’s a refuge for the lost. We’ve all be there, sometimes we still are. We have a God who seeks the lost and gives them home. He draws us together and to him here at Bethany.

Pastor Mark Henke preached this sermon on October 27, 2019 at the Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Parkway campus in Appleton, WI.

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The pattern of the “here below” is work to build your castle. 40-50-60-70 hours a week are worth it if you have an empire to show from it. However, if we look to earthly things for meaning, we’ll never find it. Things here below are transient. However, when we live as beggars, receiving what God gives from above, we find meaning that lasts for eternity.

Pastor Zach Gebert preached this sermon on October 19, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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A perspective from below says that the value of life is indicated by the value of your valuables. Your house(s), your car(s), your toy(s), your spouse(s). But Paul makes clear to Timothy that the value of our valuables is much less valuable than we assume. None of it lasts, and in fact, the pursuit of these things often makes life run out much more quickly than we intend.

So instead, fill your life with things that have true and lasting value: “righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.” Find value in the possession of the greatest gift God’s given you: faith that results in eternal life.

Pastor Pat Brown preached this sermon on October 12, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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It sounds like a romance movie gone wrong: the love(less) saga of Hosea and Gomer. A man gives up his right to requited love to play an object lesson for God. Yet in Hosea’s cringeworthy repeated choice to love his prostitute wife, we catch a glimpse of love’s true beauty: grace.

We may get hung up in life on the people who deserve our love or don’t, on the love we feel we should be able to expect from others, and on our feelings when we don’t receive the love we think we deserve, but the bigger lesson in Hosea’s story isn’t that we should love the unfaithful (although that’s a lesson), but that God has loved the unfaithful. God has loved you, prostitute wife of your Savior. Let the grace of God you’ve received frame your choices to love others.

Pastor Mark Henke preached this sermon on October 5, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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Sometimes our plans pan out. Sometimes they don’t. But God’s promises always prevail. When we see our plans through the lens of God’s promise, how can this perspective from above coach how we deal with frustrations, roadblocks, and even successes to our plans?

Pastor Pat Brown preached this sermon on September 28, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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What makes church a valuable part of your life? It’s easy to focus on the externals and programs, but there’s a deeper and stronger reason to fall in love with your church. We look at the first Christian church in Acts 2 to find a new value proposition for the weekly gathering—a reason to fall in love.

Pastor Zach Gebert preached this sermon on September 21, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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God has made us perfectly unique for his perfect purposes. Embrace who he’s made you and celebrate each other!

Pastor Pat Brown preached this sermon on September 14, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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You volunteer at a place to which you have no obligation and you can say you’ve really done an over and above job of helping them out. But you wouldn’t ever pat your back after mowing the lawn or unloading the dishwasher at your own house. That’s a responsibility that you have as a member of the family. And that’s what we are at Bethany--a family.

God has brought us together from all our varied backgrounds to be one. He’s united us around one message and given us one spirit. We love our family not for selfish gain, but because it’s who we are.

Pastor Mark Henke preached this sermon on September 7, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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Jesus challenges us to not just look busy but be productive in God’s Kingdom.

Pastor Zach Gebert preached this sermon on August 31, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

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Apart from Christ, everything under the sun is meaningless. But through faith in Jesus, our work, our wealth, our life is Meaningless No More.

Pastor Pat Brown preached this sermon on August 24, 2019 at the Saturday Family Worship Gathering of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Lynndale campus in Appleton, WI.

Learn more at www.bethanyappleton.org