Living Well of Bethel - Podcasts

#PetPeeves

One of my pet peeves is the mid-western tendency to use negative adjectives in conjunction with positive adjectives in order to amplify the positive adjective. If I’ve lost you, don’t worry – if you are from the mid-west you will recognize these word pairs: Awfully beautiful, terribly sweet. It works here in the Midwest. Awfully beautiful is much more beautiful than nicely beautiful and wonderfully sweet is just a bit less sweet than terribly sweet, which pushes sweet over the boundaries of acceptable sweetness. Do you think the disciples had some pet peeves?

#FaithvsLaw

C.S Lewis once said, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” How can we use faith as our looking glass to see everything else? Welcome to worship.

#PerfecTiming

Are there things going on in your world which seem to be happening when you are prepared to help? Perhaps you have extra money to support a ministry close to your heart. Perhaps you have extra time to volunteer somewhere. Perhaps you have been made aware of a child in need of an instrument and you have such an instrument gathering dust in your closet. Perhaps all your years of training are leading you to a ministry that needs those skills. That’s God’s perfect timing at work. Don’t be late.

#Tranfiguration

Jesus was transfigured on the mountain, illuminatedand shining with Elijah and Moses. It was an incredible experience for the disciples, yet we often focus on Jesus' transfiguration and miss the transformation of the disciples. How are we transformed today by God's presence in our world? Rev. Carol Shanks brings the lesson this week.

#Side-tracked

There are many times we are side-tracked from God’s purpose in our lives. The reality is consumerism thrives on side-tracking us. We have to participate in consumerism to survive, the secret is to not let consumerism rule our lives. We do that with faith, prayer and support of one another.