Bethany Evangelical Free Church Podcast

Parenting is hard. See what there is to say when God shared his wisdom for parenting but joining us for Week 3 of Sacred Ordinary: God’s Wisdom for the Nitty Gritty it Life

Sometimes we see a marriage that leaves us in awe. We hope we’ll be like that. We wonder what their secret is. Join us to look into Proverbs 5 and see what God says when His wisdom is applied to marriage.

What happens when God’s wisdom is applied to the everyday, ordinary challenges of life we navigate in our homes, our workplaces, our country, and our hearts? Join us as we open the Book of Proverbs and find God’s wisdom applied to the nitty gritty of everyday life.

What do you learn following Jesus as a foreign national in a country where practicing that faith can get you deported? You learn to pray! Join us as mission partner leads us in hearing Jesus’ teaching on prayer.

Are you curious about what work might be like as a Bible translator? Take a listen as Elin talks with Brad and Toni Guderian about their work with the Koluwawa people in Papa New Guinea. Bethany Missionshttp://bethanyefree.org/missions Wycliffe Bible Translatorshttps://www.wycliffe.org Guderian Videohttps://www.facebook.com/brad.guderian/videos/10220400110211046/ John 11:35- Jesus wept. Proverbs 16:3- Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

“Fiery trials” were a reality for Christians in the 1st-century. But today? Join us as 1 Peter 4:12-19 throws light on 21st-century fiery trials.

1 Peter 4:1-11 Week 3 of the Sacred Good series looks at suffering for God as opposed to being unfaithful to God.

1 Peter 3:8-12 Fear smothers the fire of zeal and passion. What can we do? Click to listen to this week’s sermon as we hear the New Testament book of 1 Peter speak to that very question.

1 Peter 3:8-12 We want to do good. But that’s easier said than done in a time when doing good is met with hostility. That’s precisely what the first readers of 1 Peter were experiencing. View our Aug 2 sermon as we listen in on God’s instructions to them on doing good when doing good is met with hostility.

1 Peter 3:1-7 Attempting to understand and make sense of gender roles can be confusing, even on a clear day. As often happens, the world says several different things, and Scripture says something else. Look at this topic with us as we open with two myths and begin to break down scriptural concepts.

In her conversation with Neil and Wannee Thompson, Elin asks about their dreams for missions at Bethany. In addition, they talk about missions as a career and the impact that COVID-19 pandemic has had on global missions. Bethany Missionshttp://bethanyefree.org/missions   OMFhttps://omf.org/us/   Medical Missionshttps://omf.org/cross-cultural-work/medicalmission/   Serve Asiahttps://omf.org/opportunities/serveasia/   John Scotthttps://www.ivpress.com/john-stott   InterVarsityhttps://intervarsity.org/  

1 Peter 2:11-3:7 We live in a world filled with injustice and evil. How are Christians called to resist it? Join us as we learn to follow the example of Jesus in both submission and subversion.

John 15:5 It’s easy in life to have our love, our joy, and our peace be dictated by our circumstances. But Jesus holds out the vision of a life with love, joy, and peace that transcends circumstances. Can you imagine? Join us as we hear Jesus share this vision and lay out how to find such life in Him.

John 6:25-27 Anxiety, anger, fear, and suffering. They make hearts heavy and cold. Hear with us words of Jesus to warm cold hearts.

To do something well you have to get the basics right. In a time when the Church must excel at being salt and light, what are the ABCs of living out this calling? Look into 1 Peter 1:13-25 with us as we all go back to the basics of being salt and light.

1 Peter 1:3-12 Do you want to be more than a drone of society? Do you want to march to the beat of a different drum? This is what God calls his people to. Look with us at 1 Peter as we see three gifts God gives to enable people to do just that.

1 Peter 1:1-2 As we kick of a new series in the book of 1 Peter we explore the identity that God has given to His people and how that identity shapes the way we engage with our world.

Purpose is like a fire: it gives light in the dark, heat in the cold, and a reason to be excited. Look with us at Acts 2 as God gives purpose to his people.

Joel 3:17-21 A natural disaster. A teetering economy. And a prophet with a word from God. Join us as we seek God and turn to the book of Joel.