Welcome to Bethlehem

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Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

“Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is community of sinners trusting in the forgiveness given by the crucified and risen Christ, offering peace, joy, stability, and purpose to a despairing and chaotic wo9rld by sharing this gospel through our words and deeds.”

LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS: Pray for Chris Pluger and his family in Ethiopia due to ongoing civil unrest in that country has endangered all foreign residents. You can see his presentation on this HERE.

Monday, August 4, 2025
Teachers Return from Vacation
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Daily Readings: I Samuel 18:10-30; Acts 27:27-44
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Eighth Sunday After Pentecost

Faith in Christ Is Rich Toward God

To live for earthly things “is vanity and a striving after wind” and work that is driven by such vanity “is an unhappy business” (Ecclesiastes 1:13-14). The man who lives like that has nothing to show for “all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun . . . All his days are full of sorrow” (Ecclesiastes 2:22-23). So, too, your “covetousness, which is idolatry” (Colossians 3:3), makes a god our of that which cannot give you life or happiness. For “one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15). But “Christ who is your life” (Colossians 3:4), in giving you Himself, give you all the wealth of heaven. Instead of striving to lay up treasures for yourself, be “rich toward God” in Him (Luke 12:21).

Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 3:18-26; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Welcome to Bethlehem

Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

Eighth Sunday After Pentecost

Commemoration of Joanna, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany

Teachers Return from Vacation

Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

Commemoration of Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr