Bethany Lutheran Church

Mar 05 2025 30 ep. 25 mins 1
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Bethany Lutheran church is located in Austin, TX. We are a church dedicated to Christ and creating a community for people to belong. Bethany is a place to belong, explore, and enjoy the presence and grace of Christ.

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Ash Wednesday | From Ashes to Ashes

Mar 05 2025 18 mins  
We live in a culture that is obsessed with moving up and to the right. As the season of Lent begins we pause to remember that from the dust we have come and to the dust we shall return. There is no escaping death. The smearing of ashes on our foreheads reminds us of this sobering reality. At the same time, the sign of the ash cross that marks our foreheads also invites us to long f

James | We Need Each Other

Mar 02 2025 24 mins  
Healing, forgiveness, and restoration are all blessings from God. As James wraps up his letter to the church he shows us how God blesses his church with these gifts through other people, showing us that when it is all said and done we need each other to experience the fullness of God’s love. James 5:13-20 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him si

James | Are You Ready?

Feb 23 2025 27 mins  
The unknown future, wealth, and suffering. What do these all have in common? Join us this week to find out as we get close to the end of James’ letter to the church. This week’s passage will help broaden our imagination on how to best prepare ourselves for the full reign of God’s kingdom on earth. James 4:13-5:1-2 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into su

James | At War with Yourself

Feb 16 2025 21 mins  
We all have misplaced desires. This week we will explore what it looks like to say no between our strongest worldly desires and submit ourselves to our deepest God-given desires. James 4:1-10 (ESV) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, s

James | From Above and Below?

Feb 09 2025 26 mins  
"James speaks about wisdom often in this letter. This week James will help us understand where true wisdom comes from and what the kind of fruit wisdom bears in the life of a Christian.” James 3:13-17 (ESV) Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hea

James | Sticks and Stones…

Feb 02 2025 30 mins  
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.” We often underestimate the weight our words carry in our digitalized and depersonalized culture. James reminds us that with our words comes great harm or great blessing. James 3:1-12 (ESV) Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. F

James | What About Grace?!

Jan 26 2025 32 mins  
James writes, “What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” His words may make you a bit nervous since you have heard that we are saved by grace. Join us this week as we explore and unpack what a healthy relationship between faith and works looks like in the life of a Christian. James 2:14-26 (ESV) What good is it

James | No Favorites

Jan 19 2025 21 mins  
We are often drawn to people who look successful and powerful, even in the church. But this morning James will remind us that God’s kingdom does not belong to the elite of this world; God has chosen the poor to be heirs to his kingdom. Join us as the Spirit realigns our hearts with the heart of God. Matthew 2:3-8 (ESV) When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jeru

James | Look and Listen

Jan 12 2025 23 mins  
“Do you hear me?!” Maybe you feel like that is what God is saying to you most of the time. Maybe to really listen to God we need to make sure we are looking in the right place. Join us this week as we continue to walk through James as we learn how to live our real faith out in the real world. James 1:19-27 (ESV) Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear,

James | Not IF but WHEN

Jan 05 2025 23 mins  
James doesn’t begin his letter with a greeting or prayer. He gets right to the point by addressing the one thing all humans will face- adversity. This week we will explore how the various trials that you will endure, when experienced through faith in Jesus, can turn out to be some of the greatest teachers we can have. James 1:1-16 (ESV) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jes