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Lent 2025 Joseph | Genesis 37-50 < Back Holy Week Devotional from Focus on the Family Canada Holy Week 2025 - Devotional .pdf Download PDF • 4.49MB The Life of Joseph (Genesis 37-50 ) | Lent Resources for 2025 Lent Challenge : Pursue the following discipleship practices everyday as we journey together towards Easter Everyday Prayer | Reflect on a weekly prayer prompt connected to the message from Sunday - posted here! See below. Everyday in the Word | Read Scripture daily through our Lent reading plan, starting March 10 - sign up to join our Bethel reading group here through the YouVision app. Regular Fasting (or Intentional Abstaining) | Through a chosen rhythm during the 40 days of Lent. Visit here to explore on fasting. We also recommend Practice the Way 's resources which you can access through signing up for their practice, here . Regular Generosity | Through intentional acts of giving (ex. tithing, blessing a neighbor with a meal, serving others in surprising and loving ways). Visit here to explore possible ways you can practice generosity. Weekly Prayer Prompts Week 1: Dreams and Dysfunction (Genesis 37) What dreams do you need to let go of? What dreams do you need to cherish? Week 2: Tempted and Tried (Genesis 39) How has God blessed you? Remember and thank him. How can his blessing help you face hardship? Remember so you can endure and seek to bless others. Week 3: Dreams of a New Horizon (Genesis 40-41) What are the obstacles you’re facing that make it difficult to see God’s horizon for your life? How can God’s faithfulness help you wait for and embrace his horizon? Week 4: Famine and Forgiveness (Genesis 42-45) How has God forgiven you? Who do you need to forgive? Week 5: To Be Continued (Genesis 50:15-26) What are the promises we must claim and cling to during hardships? Where have you placed your trust when it comes to your future? Additional resources Recommended book for Lent (click here ) This is a 15 day Easter Family Devotional: For a printed copy of this resource, please email Selikke | kids@discoverbethel.com

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Cross through the Cliché < Back Sermon Notes May 11, 2025 Outline summary of message: "Love like God" (Luke 6, Luke 10) "Love the Sinner. Hate the Sin." Where did this come from? Origin: Augustine's Letter 211, written in A.D. 424: Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum , “With love for mankind and hatred for sins.” Also, “hate the sin and not the sinner…” (Mahatma Ghandi) Jesus’ message: He loved all people. He also called out, and challenged sins He framed loving God in the context of also loving one's neighbor. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27) Jesus also said we should love our enemies. “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Luke 6:27-28) We are all sinners! “...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) Understanding the Bible with the Bible’s Help Illustration of a blueprint The Bible is one unified revelation about God from God What does the Bible say about God’s love “But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16) “We love because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19) “Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8) What does the Bible say about what God hates “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26-27) “But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide His face from you so that He does not listen.” (Isaiah 59:2) “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) “These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord.” (Zechariah 8:16-17) “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” (Luke 7:37) “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” (Romans 12:9-10) Application: Place in the Big Picture of God's Story “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life.” (1 Timothy 1:15-16) Through the cross, God sees Christ’s work in us, and not our own works. God hates sin. As he sees us, and Christ within us, In response, we love by acknowledging our sins, acknowledging our need of God to rescue us and change us Embrace being known, loved and challenge in community with God's Word Questions to consider: Is my reaction towards a person coming from God’s love? Is the action or choice I am concerned about sin? Am I seeking to judge a person by what I want to say or do? If not, what is my ultimate goal? The Bible Project Resource: What is Sin in the Bible?

Flourish Life By The Spirit < Back Join us in a 10-week journey of studying how the Spirit nourishes within us a life of fruitfulness that goes beyond surviving and coping. It actually can and does, by God’s grace, look like flourishing. Along this journey, we invite you to go deeper in your walk with Jesus through some additional resources. Each week we will look at another dimension for the fruit of the Spirit, following the order and pattern described in Galatians 5:13-26. For Personal Devotion and Small Groups: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit - Growing In Christlikeness - By Christopher Wright Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World by Rich Villodas For Families at Home On Sundays, Bethel Kids will be using curriculum based on the book "Fruit Full: 100 Family Experiences for Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit" What do your kids know about the fruit of the Spirit? Maybe they can rattle off the list: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But do they really understand what the fruits look like in daily life? John Stott prayed every day the following prayer. Consider praying this prayer as you seek God’s abundant life for you in the season to come. “Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence and please you more and more. Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you. Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God, have mercy upon me.

< Back Pastor of Congregational Care and Discipleship Wendy Werkman Wendy has been a member of Bethel since 2003. She has a diversified work experience and brings that experience to Bethel Community Church in the Administrator position since August 2011. Wendy went back to school to pursue an MDiv from Kairos University and completed the Ecclesiastical Program for Ministerial Candidates (EPMC) from Calvin Seminary. In August 2022 Wendy was installed as the Pastor of Congregational Care and Discipleship. Her passion is to see people become connected within the church family and she is probably one of the first people you’ll be welcomed by! When not at Bethel, you can find Wendy spending time with her husband Melvin and their family, gardening, reading, or enjoying walks. Wendy@discoverbethel.com (780) 476-3762

The Good News Journey with the church in Acts < Back Resources for “The Good News” – Journey with the church in Acts: What Is The Gospel? | N.T. Wright Online The Gospel - Bible Project Euangelion / Gospel What does the word Gospel mean? Learn more in this video as we explore the meaning of this word in the biblical Greek. - Bible Project Devotional Series and Video Resource: Acts Bible Study - See Jesus in Acts - Spoken Gospel Recommended Books: Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good by N. T. Wright, here The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ by Ray Ortlund, here Small Group Video Resource: Witness - Resonate Global Missions

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Lent 2024 A King in God's Place < Back The Season of Lent, our journey with Jesus to Easter, begins with a day centred on ashes. The dust reminds us of our need for God – while we are not enough, Jesus offers us everything we need. We reflect and remember who he is, renewing our desire to follow him in all aspects of life. We have two devontionals that we want to share with you for Lent LE23_Issue .pdf Download PDF • 6.76MB Lenten_Journal_2023 .pdf Download PDF • 1.14MB