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05.29.2010 | Walk | Week 08

Walk - Week 08

 

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05.22.2010 | Walk | Week 07

Walk - Week 07

 

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05.15.2010 | Walk | Week 06

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Walk - Week 06

 

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05.08.2010 | Walk | Week 05

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05.01.2010 | Walk | Week 04

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Walk - Week 04

 

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04.25.2010 | Walk | Week 03

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Walk - Week 03

 

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04.18.2010 | Walk | Week 02

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Walk - Week 02

 

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04.11.2010 | Walk | Week 01

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03.14.2010 | Dear God | Week 04

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Dear God - Week 04

 

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03.07.2010 | Dear God | Week 03

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Dear God - Week 03

 

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02.28.2010 | Dear God | Week 02

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Dear God - Week 02

 

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02.21.2010 | Dear God | Week 01 | Our Father...

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Dear God - Week 01

 

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02.14.2010 | Week 08 | The Right Stuff | Walking Humbly Part 2

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The Right Stuff - Week 08

 

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02.07.2010 | Week 07 | The Right Stuff | Walking Humbly Part 1

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The Right Stuff - Week 07

 

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01.31.2010 | Week 06 | The Right Stuff | Mercy Part 3

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01.24.2010 | Week 05 | The Right Stuff | Mercy Part 3

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01.17.2010 | Week 04 | The Right Stuff | Mercy Part 2

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12.27.2009 | Week 01 | The Right Stuff | Micah 6:8

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12.20.2009 | Week 04 | The Story | Joy

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The Story - Week 04

 

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12.06.2009 | Week 02 | The Story | Peace

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11.29.2009 | Week 01 | The Story | Hope

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10.22.2009 | Week 12 | It's About Time | Ask For Help

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It's About Time - Week 12

Some of us have a hard time asking for directions, and we’ve “driven” around for quite some time and we’re still lost.  Maybe it’s time we asked for help.  Why?  Because what we’re doing isn’t working but most importantly:

We do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.  Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need - Hebrews 4:15-16.

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11.15.2009 | Week 11 | It's About Time | Grow Up #2

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It's About Time - Week 11

What does a mature Christ-follower look like?  Does it have to do with how much we know?  Does it have anything to do with busyness?  In these two messages we will seek to understand what real growth means from God’s perspective as detailed in Colossians 2:6-7:

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.  Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.  For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority – Colossians 2:6-10

Perhaps it’s time for many of us to grow up . . . on Christ’s terms.

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11.08.2009 | Week 10 | It's About Time | Grow Up

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It's About Time - Week 10

What does a mature Christ-follower look like?  Does it have to do with how much we know?  Does it have anything to do with busyness?  In this message we will seek to understand what real growth means from God’s perspective as detailed in Colossians 2:6-7:

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.  Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.  For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. So you also are complete through your union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority – Colossians 2:6-10

Perhaps it’s time for many of us to grow up . . . on Christ’s terms.

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11.01.2009 | Week 09 | It's About Time | Reprioritize

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It's About Time - Week 09

A lot hangs in the balance with Christ-following people.  Like hope.  How can we bring hope to a hurting world if our priorities are out of whack?  This sermon tries to make very specific application of this text and others:

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is - Ephesians 5:15-17

We will seek to reprioritize our individual lives, and our life as a church in line with “making the most of every opportunity.” .

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10.18.2009 | Week 07 | It's About Time | Time to Chill

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It's About Time - Week 07

What would it look like if the people at Bethel people just took the time to rest and reflect and chill?  Perhaps we would understand more of what Jesus meant when he said:

“Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice” – Matthew 5:23     Perhaps we would also tap into the joy of being still and knowing, amidst all the chaos of life, that God is God (and we’re not).

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10.11.2009 | Week 06 | It's About Time | Step Outside of Yourself

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It's About Time - Week 06

Selfishness is our default.  We begin to believe that life is just about us.  But according to our text, that self-centered life is an empty life.  We are called to do minister to others while there is time.  Here is our text for this talk:

Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith - Galatians 6:8-10.

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10.04.2009 | Week 05 | It's About Time | Remember part 2

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It's About Time - Week 05

Time to Remember part 2

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09.27.2009 | Week 04 | It's About Time | Remember

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It's About Time - Week 04

It's Time to Remember

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09.20.2009 | Week 03 | It's About Time | Time to Change

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It's About Time - Week 03

Time to Change

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09.13.2009 | Week 02 | It's About Time | Time to Talk

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It's About Time - Week 02

Time to Talk

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09.06.2009 | Week 01 | It's About Time | Time to Inventory

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It's About Time - Week 01

This introduction to the series will help us map out a strategy for the fall in stewarding our time well.  Our hope is that this series will help each of us at Bethel to ask God regularly to: Teach us to number our days,  that we may gain a heart of wisdom – Psalm 90:12.

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08.16.2009 | Week 10 | Guarding the Heart | Careless Words


Guarding the Heart - Week 9

We talked earlier in this series about friendship.  Well, we are reminded in Proverbs 16:28 that “gossip separates the best of friends.”  In this message we will explore the dangers of spreading gossip and listening to gossip, and seek to be people who speak to others instead of about them.

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08.09.2009 | Week 9 | Guarding the Heart | Against Busyness


Guarding the Heart - Week 10

There are a number of what one writer calls “applauded addictions.”  Some of us are addicted to busyness and work.  And yet the life of wisdom, the guarded heart---is a life that is busy for the right reasons at the right time.  That heart also learns how to rest.

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08.02.2009 | Week 8 | Guarding the Heart | Against Judgment


Guarding the Heart - Week 5

Guarding the Heart Against Judgment.

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07.26.2009 | Week 7 | Guarding the Heart | Wise Up!


Guarding the Heart - Week 7

We all make bad decisions from time-to-time, even foolish ones.  But we must guard against the kind of foolishness that drives bad decisions all the time.  The Proverbs have much to say about seeking and gaining the kind of wisdom that runs our lives and rules our decisions.

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07.19.2009 | Week 6 | Guarding the Heart | How to be Good and Mad


Guarding the Heart - Week 6

Proverbs 25:28 reminds us that “ a person without self-control is as defenseless as a city with broken-down walls.  In this message we learn what it’s like to be people who are in control of their anger.  Very practical advice on anger management will be given.

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07.12.2009 | Week 5 | Guarding the Heart | Aimlessness


Guarding the Heart - Week 5

Solomon reminds his readers that when there is no vision in life, a person perishes.  God really does have a vision for our lives and it’s important to figure out and flesh out that vision.

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07.05.2009 | Week 4 | Guarding the Heart | Loneliness and Friendship


Guarding the Heart - Week 4

We were designed to be in community with one another.  But the deep friendship that various Proverbs detail is different than what we often think of friendship.  This message will help us guard against loneliness by being a good friend and finding a good friend.

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06.28.2009 | Week 3 | Guarding the Heart | Honesty and Integrity


Guarding the Heart - Week 3

Integrity.  It’s huge and necessary for a heart that is pure and guarded.  Yet, we are challenged almost every day to compromise our integrity in the small choices, and sometimes the big choices.  This message will help us fight the good fight of integrity.

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06.21.2009 | Week 2 | Guarding the Heart | Arrogance and Humility


Guarding the Heart - Week 2

Proverbs 4:13 is the hitching post for this sermon series.  In this message we will look at what Solomon is encouraging us to do in guarding the heart and what that would look like in real life.

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06.14.2009 | Week 1 | Guarding the Heart


Guarding the Heart - Week 1

Proverbs 4:13 is the hitching post for this sermon series.  In this message we will look at what Solomon is encouraging us to do in guarding the heart and what that would look like in real life.

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05.31.2009 | Week 7 | Being the Church | Incarnational Living


Being The Church - Bringing Hope in Incarnational Living

Though the church building is at 1611 Hemlock, the church’s outreach is way beyond those walls.  Yet, it’s easy to develop a “fortress mentality” and concentrate on what’s going on inside.  We will concentrate on Christ’s challenge to “go” and make disciples.

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05.24.2009 | Week 6 | Being the Church | Depth of Community


Being The Church - Being Real Through Depth of Community

What was going on in the church in Acts 2 that is transferrable to the church at 1611 Hemlock Lane in Owatonna?  The depth of community modeled by the Acts 6 church can be who we are if we are willing to learn . . . and obey.

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05.17.2009 | Week 5 | Being the Church | Clear Communication


Being The Church - Being Real in Clear Communication

In Ephesians 4, Paul gives the church some clear guidelines on how to speak to one another clearly and compassionately.  If we are going to be real as a church body, we will need to really take in and apply the challenge to communicate well with one another.

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05.10.2009 | Week 4 | Being the Church | Managing Conflict


Being The Church - Being Real in Managing Conflict

Conflict is a part of the deal of community.  It just is.  Our calling as the church is not to avoid conflict but manage it, and manage it in ways that Jesus and Paul prescribe so that we can “be diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:3).”

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05.03.2009 | Week 3 | Being the Church | Sacrifical Living


Being The Church - Living Free in Sacrificial Living

Living Free – what does that mean?  We want to learn how to be the church not just do church.  A statement made by Jesus in Luke 9 is counter-intuitive, counter-cultural, but one of the paths to real freedom.  He said:  “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”  Wow.  Is it possible that serving others sacrificially will bring the greatest freedom?  We will try to understand and apply what Jesus said with Pastor Dan Rotach’s help.

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04.26.2009 | Week 2 | Being the Church | Personal Transformation


Being The Church - Living Free in Personal Transformation

Living Free – what does that mean?  We want to learn how to be the church not just do church.  As a society we are in a constant state of flux.  Things change all the time.  But what about personal change?  What about personal transformation?  Dan Rotach will show how Paul spells out what the transformed person’s life should look like using Colossians 2:6-7.

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04.19.2009 | Week 1 | Being the Church | Radical Obedience


Being The Church - Living Free in Radical Obedience

Living Free – what does that mean?  We want to learn how to be the church not just do church.  Some believe that freedom is found in the absence of constraints and obligations, but Jesus teaches that freedom of the soul is found in a relationship with Him and obedience to His Father’s will.

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04.12.2009 | Week 3 | Life. Money. Hope.
 
Dave Ramsey - Life. Money. Hope.

Trying to make sense of the economy? Leading financial expert Dave Ramsey joins us to share timeless advice on the money matters right under your own roof.

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04.05.2009 | Week 2 | Life. Money. Hope.
 
Dave Ramsey - Life. Money. Hope.

Trying to make sense of the economy? Leading financial expert Dave Ramsey joins us to share timeless advice on the money matters right under your own roof.

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03.29.2009 | Week 1 | Life. Money. Hope.
 
Dave Ramsey - Life. Money. Hope.

Trying to make sense of the economy? Leading financial expert Dave Ramsey joins us to share timeless advice on the money matters right under your own roof.

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03.22.2009 | Week 9 | What's Love | Scandalous Love
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Scandalous Love

This week we’re going to be finishing up the series “What’s Love Got To Do With It”.  We will consider how our ability to love truly stems from God’s love toward us.  We’ll be exploring our need to constantly be refueled by God’s “Scandalous Love”.

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03.15.2009 | Week 8 | What's Love | Endurance and Eternality
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Endurance and Eternality

According to Paul, there are some things that are temporal and some things are eternal. Love is eternal. So it makes sense to talk about the deep love we can experience through Jesus Christ and His salvation, and how to share that love with others.

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03.08.2009 | Week 7 | What's Love | Clarity and Maturity
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Clarity and Maturity

The more we mature in our faith walk, the more we see how important community is. In this message we will try to assess how much we have grown in love, or need to grow in love for one another.

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03.01.2009 | Week 6 | What's Love | Protection and Perseverance
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Protection and Perseverance

A number of Christian writers have written recently about “fighting for” the ones you love. Those writers are tapping into the teachings of 1 Corinthians 13, helping us see that real love is ruthlessly loyal. We will tap into those teachings about loyal love.

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02.22.2009 | Week 5 | What's Love | Truth and Justice
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Truth and Justice

Truth-telling is more than just telling the truth---not lying. It’s that safety and confidence and boldness . . . and love---to speak words of truth to one another. Sometimes fear or anxiety or Minnesota Nice keep us from telling each other the truth. We hope to reclaim that dynamic of love in this message.

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02.15.2009 | Week 4 | What's Love | Anger and Clipboards
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Anger and Clipboards

Some of us may have been keeping a clipboard of the wrongs done against us. True love, according to Paul, doesn’t keep records of wrongs. That looks good on paper, but hopefully we can move the teaching from the printed page to our hearts.

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02.08.2009 | Week 3 | What's Love | Humility and Selflessness
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Humility and Selflessness

This message about love will be counter-cultural because we live in a world that repeatedly reminds us that it’s about us. It’s not about us. And we will explore how true humility could transform our relationships with one another.

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02.01.2009 | Week 2 | What's Love | Patience and Kindness
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Patience and Kindness

In this message we will look at how kindness and patience contribute to one’s resume as a loving person. We may find that we have bought into the anxiety and chaos of the world and have reached such a fast pace in life that our relationships are suffering.

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01.25.2009 | Week 1 | What's Love | Perspectives and Priorities
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Perspectives and Priorities

We will set the stage for this teaching series by looking at the priority of love. What’s going on in Corinth that Paul would need to reclaim this priority? What’s going on in our lives that may need this priority of love reclaimed?

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MESSAGE SERIES | TITLE
SPEAKER
Audio
11-23-2008
 I am... So What? | Resurrection and the Life Dan Rotach
11-16-2008
 The Woman at the Well Cindy Halvorson
11-09-2008
 I am... So What? | Bread of Life Dan Rotach
audio
11-02-2008
 I am... So What? | Light of the World Dan Rotach
audio
10-26-2008
 Luke Dave Small
audio
10-12-2008
 I am... So What? | The Good Shepard Dan Rotach
audio
09-28-2008
 Immeasurably More | God of Action Josh Amstutz
audio
09-21-2008
 Immeasurably More | God of All Comfort Shane Shornock
audio
09-14-2008
 Immeasurably More | Prayer Shane Shornock
audio
09-07-2008
 Will You Forgive Me Dan Rotach
audio
08-31-2008
 Immeasurably More | Miracles Josh Amstutz
audio
08-24-2008
 Immeasurably More | God of Blessing Jennings Wallace
audio
08-17-2008
 Imm. More | The God of No Boundaries Josh Amstutz
audio
08-10-2008
 The Ministry of Encouragement Dan Rotach
audio
08-03-2008
 New | Divisiveness Josh Amstutz
07-27-2008
 New | Toward Whom? Jennings Wallace
audio
07-20-2008
 New | What Grace Can Do! Jennings Wallace
audio
07-13-2008
 Authenticity Dan Rotach
audio
07-06-2008
 New | Titus 2: The New You Shane Shornock
audio
06-29-2008
 New | Our Character Josh Amstutz
audio
06-22-2008
 How About Those Resolutions Dan Rotach
audio