Welcome to Bethlehem

[Jesus said]; “if you abide with Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.”

John 15:7 (English Standard Version – ESV)

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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.

FifTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

Jesus Christ Is the True Vine Who Bears Much Fruit in Us

“God is Love,” and He has manifested Himself to us by sending “His only Son into the world, so that we might life through Him” (I John 4:9, 16). By the ministry of the Gospel, “He has given us of His Spirit,” so that we also believe and confess “that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.” In this way we “abide in Him and He is us,” and we “love one another” (I John 4:2, 7, 13). Such divi8ne love is exemplified in Philip’s preaching of “the good news about Jesus” to the Ethiopian eunuch. And when “they came to some water,” the eunuch was baptized into the very Gospel that Philip had preached (Acts 8:35-38). That Ethiopian was thereby grafted into “the true Vine,” Jesus Christ (John 15:1), just as we are. Already we are clean because of the Word that Christ has spoken to us and by the washing of water with His Word. We now abide in Him by faith in His forgiveness. As He abides in us, both body and soul, with His own Body and His Blood, He “bears much fruit” in us (John 15:3-5).

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Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Welcome to Bethlehem

Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, Apostles

Commemoration of Athenasius of Alexandria, Pastor and Confessor

Commemoration of Friedrich Wyneken, Pastor and Missionary

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Confirmation Sunday

Commemoration of Frederick the Wise, Christian Ruler